Tipu Sulta - David Attenborough TV - William Blake - Jack Hanna - Survivor - Al Capone - Tiger Kill: Natural World TV - Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park USA 2017 - Winston Churchill - Trafficked TV -
In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep. Tipu Sulta
The Siberian tiger: ten feet long from nose to tail. David Attenborough, The Life of Mammals V: Meat Eaters, BBC 2002
Tigers are the largest, most powerful and perhaps the most loved of all the big cats. Yet over the last century their numbers have declined by 95%. David Attenborough, Dynasties V: Tiger, BBC 2018
Siberian tiger: now fewer than 500 remain in the wild. David Attenborough, Frozen Planet II, BBC 2022
Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? William Blake, The Tyger
‘You, young man, are an intelligent, honest, vivacious fellow in this crowd of thugs and idiots. In any jungle, what is the rarest of animals – the creature that comes along only once in a generation?’
I thought about it and said:
‘The white tiger.’
‘That’s what you are, in this jungle.’ Aravind Adiga, White Tiger p35
The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is. Jack Hanna
… It’s the Eye of the Tiger
It’s the thrill of the fight!
Rising up to the challenge of your rival … Survivor, Eye of the Tiger, 1982
Now I know why tigers eat their young. Al Capone
50 kilos heavier and a whole head longer than a lion, the tiger is the world’s uncontested super cat. Tiger Kill: Natural World, BBC 2017
Documenting a tiger kill has proved almost impossible. ibid.
Tigers are facing extinction in the wild. ibid.
He wants belly work. You see him exposing his belly? He wanted me to [tickle] do belly work. He was saying, I can tell that you do good belly work. Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park USA II: Orlando 2, boys visit big cat park
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. Winston Churchill, address ‘Armistice – Or Peace?’ 1937
When Tiger Cam became a phenomenon it made each of them household name … Very little attention is giving to the status of tigers today. Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller s1e7: Tigers, National Geographic 2020