Roar, O jungle’s might,

You who gives all a fright,

Roar, live, ‘tis your day,

Roar, live, live your life,

Live O jungle’s might,

Great tiger, the day is yours.

The tiger, the biggest cat of all, which exists today, has its day. The world shall do its best to save the tigers.

The International Tigers Day, or, The Global Tigers Day, the annual day reserved for tigers, was first created in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia.

The summit had been called in response to the dreadful news that 97% of all wild tigers had died out in the century past, with only around 3,000 individuals remaining alive.

The tiger subspecies, since prehistory to the day are, Panthera tigris soloensis, Panthera tigris trinilensis, Panthera tigris acutidens, Panthera tigris tigris, and Panthera tigris sondaica.

Out of these, only the last two are not completely extinct.

Panthera tigris tigris:

This is the most found subspecies of Panthera tigris.

Among it are six populations, in various places of Asia:

1.Bengal Tiger: (Endangered)

The national animal of our country, mostly found in the Indian Subcontinent, more specifically, originally from West Bengal, and Bangladesh.

The former scientific name of this population of tigers is, Panthera tigris tigris, which later became the name of the subspecies.

2.Caspian Tiger: (Extinct)

This population, which is now extinct, was found in the area of what is now Turkiye and around the Caspian Sea. It was found as far as Iraq. It had a close genetic relation with the Siberian Tiger.

Its former name was Panthera tigris virgata

It was hunted down to extinction by the 1970s.

3.Siberian Tiger: (Endangered)

It is found in Russian Far East, Northeast China and possibly North Korea.

4.South China Tiger:(Endangered

5.Indochinese Tiger: (Endangered)

6.Malayan Tiger: (Endangered)

Panthera tigris sondaica:

It is the only other remaining subspecies of tiger.

Out of it the Javan Tiger and the Bali Tiger are gone extinct, and only one population called the Sumatran Tiger remains.

Notable Tigers:

1.Champawat Man-eater: This tigress had killed around four hundred and forty humans before it was shot down by Jim Corbett

2.Tiger of Segur: He was a young male tiger, who had a disability which caused it to hunt humans. It was killed by Kenneth Anderson.

3.Bachelor of Powalgarh: It was a very large Bengal tiger, which was the most sought-after tiger in the United Provinces of the British Raj, during the 1920s. It was finally killed by Jim Corbett.

Tigers have had an unstable relationship with man, but as the most intelligent creatures, it becomes our responsibility to make sure we do not do much to disturb the lives of these majestic big cats, so that they do not disappear from the earth.

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