The scientific name of the Bali tiger is Panthera tigris balica (Schwarz, 1912), and its foreign name is Bali Tiger. It is a subspecies of the Panthera tigris balica of the Felidae family. It is the smallest of modern tigers, with a body size less than 1/3 of other northern tigers. It is extinct.
The Bali tiger was previously regarded by a few scholars as a branch of the Javan tiger, another Indonesian tiger subspecies that spread to Bali Island. They did not recognize the Bali tiger as an independent subspecies and advocated its incorporation into the Javan tiger. In the past decade before 2013, experts have established that the Bali tiger is an independent tiger subspecies that can be distinguished from the Javan tiger based on DNA extraction, fur comparison, and bone comparison.
The Bali tiger hunts a variety of local mammals for food. Its only natural enemy is humans. The colorful Bali tiger is a supernatural being to Indonesians and even appears on traditional art masks.
After the Dutch colonists invaded Bali, they mercilessly hunted Bali tigers, and their bad habits gradually spread to the local Indonesians. Because tiger skins can be sold at a good price in the market, people hunted Bali tigers unscrupulously. Bali tigers are not only attractive for their fur, but their bones are also very popular in Taiwan and other places, and are often used to make wine and medicinal materials. In the face of people's desires, the few remaining Bali tigers are simply no match. After the last female tiger in sight was shot on September 27, 1937, no one has ever seen the majestic and agile king of Bali tigers. Some experts believe that even if this female tiger is not the last one, there are still sporadic tigers left in Bali after the death of this tiger. They were also killed one after another by greedy Dutch colonists or local residents in the 1940s, or because the number was too small to continue to reproduce this population, they finally died alone in the forest. In 1952 and 1970, some people claimed to have seen Bali tigers, but the news was not credible without rigorous verification. As of 2019, data shows that there has never been a record of Bali tigers on display in zoos.
The Red List of the World Conservation Union is listed as: Extinct (EX).
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