"They always say they are not against the tiger, but the moment you believe them, you are finished." īooks: “Tigers and Tigerwallahs” by Geoffrey C. But not everyone is enamored of its stripes.” "People facing the music every day are not tiger lovers," tiger reserve conservator Sunayan Sharma said. Durga, the powerful Hindu goddess, rides a tiger, while Shiva, the god of destruction and regeneration, sits on a tiger skin. Mark Magnier wrote in the Los Angeles Times, “In India, the tiger is considered a national treasure. It is at the apex of nature’s pyramid, a balancing force on all the animals and creatures within its kingdom. But the tiger is far from being just a beautiful big cat. The more one sees of this beautiful beast, the more one is charmed by its gorgeous color, the vivid pattern of the stripes on its glossy skin, the strength of the muscles and the grace of the tiger’s movements. The Indian naturalist Kahlashi Sakkhala wrote: the tiger “is a creature of hypnotic power and fascination. In the wild, however, tigers are on the verge of disappearing. Roberts wrote in the Washington Post, “Tigers have long provoked awe in the human imagination, becoming symbols of untamed nature whose "fearful symmetry," in the words of William Blake, has inspired everything from art to advertising. [Source: Geoffrey Ward, National Geographic, December 1997 Stanley Breeden, National Geographic, December 1984 Eugene Linden, Time magazine, MaJohn Burns, New York Times, MaGeoffrey C. They were abundant over much of Asia until the 19th century, and lived in an area that extended from Iran to Siberia, Korea and Bali. They first appeared on the fossil record about a million years ago in southern China. Tigers are large, striped carnivorous cats native to Asia.
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