Talk:Bali Tiger
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Actually I think Balinese Tiger should redirect to Bali Tiger, not the other way round. E.g., http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal/curriculums/bali-tiger-pc.cfm
There are 9830 results in google for "bali tiger", but only 689 for "balinese tiger"
[edit] My first big contribution
I expanded this stub from the measly "general information" heading that was there to what it is now. Now to figure out how to get rid of the "stub" status..
[edit] Requested Move
Balinese Tiger → Bali Tiger I think the latter is a lot more common. There are 10,100 Google hits for "Bali Tiger" and only 774 for "Balinese Tiger". --Khoikhoi 20:10, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
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- Support even though the first google hit on Bali tiger yields a page called "Balinese tiger". Encarta uses Bali Tiger, and the google count seems good enough. Sam Vimes 00:39, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
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According to his cousin, Agung Krisna shot one of these in the late 1970's or 1980. I spoke to his cousin and Agung in 1981, and saw a photo of Agung, with a gun and an extremely small tiger. Agung was very proud that he'd shot a tiger. His cousin (I can't remember his name, but he was a student at the University of New England at the time - it was 26 years ago so perhaps I'm allowed to forget his name) and I were both shocked to see how small it was (smaller than the one shown in this article - perhaps it was a young one). Agung was related to the Maharajah's family somehow, and had a role in the local nature cult dealing with the Holy Mount Agung. Perhaps someone from Bali might be able to get some more information. If the photo and Agung's tale were true, then this article is at best 40 years wrong. Johnpf 13:15, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
- An exact date of extinction is unknown as throughout the 1940s reports persisted that tigers still lived on the island. These came from people considered to be reliable and they continued into the 1950s, though with a reducing frequency. One instance occurred in 1952 when a Dutch forestry officer reported seeing a Bali tiger. There have even sightings continued to surface in the 1970s. One suspected sighting was in a western reserve in 1970 and the Balinese Forestry workers reported another in 1972. Despite these positive reports it is almost certain that the Bali tiger is extinct and little chance it will ever be rediscovered. The remaining forest areas on Bali are simply no longer large enough to provide a tiger with the required shelter and food source.Peter Maas 13:57, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
