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Tiger-shaped jie (badge of authority) with gold inlays, from the tomb of Zhao Mo. The tiger is among the most famous of the charismatic megafauna. Kailash Sankhala has called it "a rare combination of courage, ferocity and brilliant colour", [143] while Candy d'Sa calls it "fierce and commanding on the outside, but noble and discerning on the ...
Tigerlily or Tiger Lily is an occasionally used English feminine given name used in reference to the flower known as the tiger lily due to its coloration that resembles a tiger. [ a ] It was the name of a character in J. M. Barrie 's 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up , his 1911 novel Peter and Wendy , and their various ...
The tune depicts two high-spirited baby tigers, tussling to the point that they have bitten off select body parts. It is particularly popular amongst parents of toddlers born in the Year of the Tiger .
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic.
Shere Khan (शेर खान شیر خان Śēr Khān, "Tiger King" ("Khan" is a common title of Indian Muslim lordship and royalty); Bengal tiger) [2] – a vicious man-eating Bengal Tiger who is the only recurring animal villain and the archenemy of Mowgli. He is often known as "a chief among tigers" and in multiple adaptations as the one ...
The zoo has not released a name for the cub, which has been isolated with its mother for its first eight weeks. The cub is Leeloo’s third. Satu, a male, was born in 2015.
Panthera hybrids are typically given a portmanteau name, varying by which species is the sire (male parent) and which is the dam (female parent). For example, a hybrid between a lion and a tigress is a liger, because the lion is the male parent and the tigress is the female parent.
Shere Khan (/ ˈ ʃ ɪər ˈ k ɑː n /) is a fictional Bengal tiger in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and its adaptations. He is often portrayed as the main antagonist, itself an exaggeration of his role in the original stories, in which he only appears a third of the time. [1]