The Balinese tiger (scientific name: Panthera tigris balica) once lived in Bali, a famous tourist area in Indonesia, and is a subspecies of the tiger, but has not been seen since 1937, and the Bali tiger is extinct.
The Balinese tiger is the third subspecies of tigers to live in Indonesia, after the Javanese and Sumatran tigers, and is the smallest known tiger. Male tigers are about 2.2 to 2.3 meters long and weigh 90-100 kg. Female tigers are about 1.9 to 2 m long and weigh 65 to 80 kg. Today for you to bring you an article about the Bali tiger, let's take a look.
The Balinese tiger is covered with short hairs with black stripes on an orange-yellow background. Compared to other species of tigers, it has fewer stripes but is also darker in color. Occasionally, small black spots appear between the stripes. In addition, the head of the Balinese tiger also has a special transverse stripe.
The Balinese tiger actually has no natural enemies in Bali, hunting local Balinese mammals and raw chickens for food, and the extinction of the Balinese tiger comes from its only natural enemy, humans, due to the large number of human obliteration.
In the early 20th century, the Dutch who colonized Java organized expeditions to Bali to hunt Balinese tigers, which led to a sharp decline in the number of Balinese tigers. On 27 September 1937, the last female Bali tiger was hunted in West Bali. Since then, the Balinese tiger has declared extinction.