"supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. Pi's family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After Pi gets dangerously close to Richard Parker, his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat. When Pi is 16, his father announces that they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals. The family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. He tries to find his"
"benign. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, tigers are fiercer and more ruthless than lions. The tiger's tail appears in stories from countries including China and Korea, it being generally inadvisable to grasp a tiger by the tail. In William Blake's poem in the ""Songs of Experience"", titled ""The Tyger,"" the tiger is a menacing and fearful animal. In Yann Martel's 2001 Man Booker Prize winning novel ""Life of Pi"", the protagonist, surviving shipwreck for months in a small boat, somehow avoids being eaten by the other survivor, a large Bengal tiger. The story was adapted in Ang Lee's 2012 feature"
"number of zoo animals caged in the hold—but after being rescued and making a life for himself in Brazil continues to find his German past impossible to escape. The novel came to widespread public attention in 2002 when Canadian writer Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for ""Life of Pi"". Martel's novel is about a boy, Pi, who finds himself trapped on a boat with a tiger after the ship he and his family are sailing on sinks. The family were zookeepers, and the animals they were transporting in the hold sink with the rest of the ship, except"
"Life of Pi (film) Life of Pi is a 2012 American survival drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, the film's adapted screenplay was written by David Magee, and it stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu Hashmi, Adil Hussain, and Gérard Depardieu. The storyline revolves around an Indian man named ""Pi"" Patel, telling a novelist about his life story, and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. The film had its worldwide premiere as the"
"tiger in his work ""Systema Naturae"" and gave it the scientific name ""Felis tigris"". In 1929, the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the species under the genus ""Panthera"" using the scientific name ""Panthera tigris"". The tiger's closest living relatives were previously thought to be the ""Panthera"" species lion, leopard and jaguar. Results of genetic analysis indicate that about 2.88 million years ago, the tiger and the snow leopard lineages diverged from the other ""Panthera"" species, and that both may be more closely related to each other than to the lion, leopard and jaguar. Results of a phylogeographic study indicate"
"story as one of ""personal growth through adversity."" The main character learns that ""tigers are dangerous"" at a young age when his father forces him to watch the zoo's Royal Bengal tiger patriarch, Mahisha, devour a live goat. Later, after he has been reduced to eking out a desperate existence on the lifeboat with the company of a fully grown tiger, Pi develops ""alpha"" qualities as he musters the strength, will and skills he needs to survive. In a 2002 interview with PBS, Martel said ""I was sort of looking for a story, not only with a small 's' but"
"most of his life. As he tries to settle himself in this new world, the sweet and well-meaning Pi makes some good friends in his new home, the first residents Pi comes across are three elderly marlins named Moe, Jack, and Manny, which direct him towards Pearl's home. On his way there, Pi immediately falls in love with Cordelia (Evan Rachel Wood), a celebrity fish that has appeared on the front cover of ""National Geographic"". He also meets his cousin Dylan (Andy Dick), that quickly becomes Pi's best friend. However, Pi soon encounters Troy (Donal Logue), the meanest, toughest tiger"
"the 2011 film. Tigger Tigger is a fictional tiger character originally introduced in A. A. Milne's book ""The House at Pooh Corner."" Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed toy animals. Tigger appears in the Disney cartoon versions of Winnie the Pooh and has also appeared in his own film. He is known for his distinctive orange and black stripes, large eyes, a long chin, a springy tail, and his love of bouncing. As he says himself, ""Bouncing is what Tiggers do best."" Tigger never refers to himself as a tiger, but as"
"""Taking Woodstock"" was ""Life of Pi"", which was adapted from the novel of the same name written by Yann Martel. The story was a retrospective first-person narrative from Pi, a then 16-year-old boy from India, who is the only human to survive the sinking of a freighter on the way from India to Canada. He finds himself on a lifeboat with an orangutan, a hyena, a wounded zebra and a Bengal tiger. During this unlikely journey, young Pi questions his belief in God and the meaning of life. The novel was once considered impossible to make into a movie, but"
"Tigger Tigger is a fictional tiger character originally introduced in A. A. Milne's book ""The House at Pooh Corner."" Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed toy animals. Tigger appears in the Disney cartoon versions of Winnie the Pooh and has also appeared in his own film. He is known for his distinctive orange and black stripes, large eyes, a long chin, a springy tail, and his love of bouncing. As he says himself, ""Bouncing is what Tiggers do best."" Tigger never refers to himself as a tiger, but as a ""Tigger"". Although"
"well as Pi's mother for food, and soon he is killed by Pi, who dines on him. The investigators note parallels between the two stories. They soon conclude that the hyena symbolizes the cook, the zebra the sailor, the orangutan Pi's mother, and the tiger represents Pi. Pi points out that neither story can be proven and neither explains the cause of the shipwreck, so he asks the officials which story they prefer: the one without animals or the one with animals. They eventually choose the story with the animals. Pi thanks them and says: ""And so it goes with"
"(豹, ""leopard""). The ""Erya"" below defines ""mo"" as ""báibào"" < *""bˁrakpˁ‹r›u"" (白豹, ""white leopard""). ""Pí"" < *""bij"" (貔) or ""píxiū"" < *""bijqʰu"" (貔貅) was a ""mythical fierce grey and white tiger- or bear-like animal"" that scholars have associated with the giant panda. The ""Erya"" defines ""pi"" as ""baihu"" < *""bˁrakɡʷˁa"" (白狐, ""white fox"") and its young is called ""hù"" < *""ɡˁaʔ"" (豰). Guo Pu's commentary gives an alternate name of ""zhiyi"" < *""tipləj"" (執夷), and groups ""pi"" with tigers and leopards (虎豹之屬). The ""Shuowen jiezi"" entry links ""pi"" with the northeastern region Mo (貊 or 貉, also used for ""panda""):"
"worried about what his child will find around the next corner, the big cat who knows he has to let go just a little but can't find it in himself to do so"". Bagheera Bagheera (; ""Baghīrā""/""Bagīdah"") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the ""Jungle Book"" (coll. 1894) and the ""Second Jungle Book"" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. The word ""bagheera"" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of"
"Bagheera Bagheera (; ""Baghīrā""/""Bagīdah"") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the ""Jungle Book"" (coll. 1894) and the ""Second Jungle Book"" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. The word ""bagheera"" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of the Raja of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Bagheera begins to plan for his freedom after his mother dies. Once he is mature and strong enough, he breaks the lock on his cage and escapes"
"2004 and 2007. Keith Robinson also directed a second version of the play. He brought some of his company to work with students of the BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. The joint production was performed at the Minack Theatre, in Cornwall, England, in late June 2008. It was well received by the press and community. Life of Pi Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor ""Pi"" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of"
"Ming of Harlem Ming is a tiger that became notable when he was found living in an apartment in Harlem, New York City, in October 2003. Ming, approximately three years old at the time of his capture, lived semi-openly with his owner, Antoine Yates, in a room of his five-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of a large public housing complex in Harlem. Several other normal and exotic pets were found in Yates' apartment, including an alligator named Al in another bedroom. Ming is currently homed at Noah's Lost Ark Animal Sanctuary in Berlin Center, Ohio. In April 2000, Antoine"
"The Tiger Rising The Tiger Rising is a 2001 children's book written by Newbery Medal winning author Kate DiCamillo. It is about a 12-year-old named Rob Horton who finds a caged tiger in the center of the woods near his home. The book was a National Book Award Finalist. Rob Horton is 12 years old and lives with his father in a Florida motel called the Kentucky Star. His father (named Robert), and Rob have recently moved to Lister, Florida, after the death of Rob's mother, Caroline. Rob is quiet and often is bullied at school. Things begin to change"
"Tantor Tantor is a generic name for elephants in ""Mangani"", the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of ""Tantor"", most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"". The Tantor who becomes Tarzan's companion is referred to only in passing in ""Tarzan and the Apes"" and its sequel, ""The Return of Tarzan"" (though there is one extended scene in chapter 15 of the latter in which the ape"
"Titus (gorilla) Titus (24 August 1974 – 14 September 2009) was a silverback mountain gorilla of the Virunga Mountains, observed by researchers almost continuously over his entire life. He was the subject of the 2008 PBS ""Nature""/BBC ""Natural World"" documentary film ""Titus: The Gorilla King"". Titus was born on 24 August 1974. He was named by gorilla researcher Kelly Stewert, who was observing his group at the time, after the eponymous protagonist of the Mervyn Peake novel ""Titus Groan"". When Titus was four years old a blackback male joined his troop. He was named Beetsme by Fossey when she was"
"trilogy ""His Dark Materials"", Lord Asriel's dæmon is a snow leopard named Stelmaria. Tai Lung, the main antagonist of the 2008 film ""Kung Fu Panda"", is an anthropomorphized snow leopard. In the 2013 film ""The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"", photojournalist Sean O'Connell (played by Sean Penn) is shown photographing snow leopards in Afghanistan. Snow leopard The snow leopard or ounce (""Panthera uncia"") is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because the global population is estimated to number less than"
"of them subsequently being cannibalised by their fellow seamen. Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, ""The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"", published in 1838, features a character named Richard Parker, who, after a shipwreck, becomes a victim of cannibalism by the ship's remaining survivors. Writer Yann Martel in his 2001 novel ""Life of Pi"" picked up on these occurrences, and named the book's shipwrecked Bengal tiger Richard Parker. The case was also the basis for a famous Monty Python sketch, titled ""Lifeboat (Cannibalism)/Still no Sign of Land"". In that sketch, five sailors are on a lifeboat after a shipwreck,"
"he is able to find his way through the Forest even in a thick mist, despite Rabbit's attempts to lose him. Like most of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger was based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals, in this case a stuffed-toy tiger. However, the word ""tiger"" is never actually used in the book. The term ""Tigger"" is used instead, both as the character's name and as a description of his type of animal. No other ""Tiggers"" appear in the story, and at one point Tigger (who has just seen his reflection in a mirror and mistaken it"
"Tiger Lily (Peter Pan) Tiger Lily is a fictional character in J. M. Barrie's play ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"", his novel based on it, and the various adaptations of them. She is the princess of the """"Piccaninny""-tribe"" (Native Americans) living on the island of Neverland. She is apparently old enough to be married, but she refuses any suitors because she desires Peter Pan overall. She is jealous of Wendy and Tinker Bell. Tiger Lily is nearly killed by Captain Hook when she is seen boarding the ""Jolly Roger"" with a knife in her mouth, but"
"tiger and cares about her deeply. According to Risika, the two have a strong understanding of each other and they keep each other company. Tora is later killed by Aubrey, to hurt Risika. When Risika had discovered the body she noticed Aubrey had tied the tiger up before stabbing her with a knife. On December 8, 2009, a little over ten years after ""In the Forests of the Night"" was published, Atwater-Rhodes revealed background information about the characters and their world on her official site. She revealed that Risika, as well as Aubrey and Ather, is part of a line"
"Sabor (Tarzan) Sabor is a generic name for lionesses (originally tigers) in ""Mangani"", the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs' works several lionesses appear under the name of ""Sabor"". In the Disney animated movie Tarzan, ""Sabor"" is a term for leopards, more specifically the leopard that killed Tarzan's parents. In the initial magazine publication of the original Tarzan novel ""Tarzan of the Apes"" in 1912, ""Sabor"" meant ""tiger"". Burroughs subsequently altered the meaning to ""lioness"" for the story's 1914 book publication after being informed that there are no tigers in"
"""tiger"" as well as the river Tigris. The original source may have been Persian ""tigra"" (pointed or sharp), and Avestan ""tigrhi"" (arrow), perhaps referring to the speed of the tiger's leap, although these words are not known to have any meanings associated with tigers. The genus name ""Panthera"" is traceable to Old French ""pantère"", from Latin ""panthera"", from Ancient Greek ""panther"", most likely with the original meaning ""yellowish animal"", or from ""pandarah"" meaning ""whitish-yellow"", possibly related to Sanskrit ""pundarikas"" (tiger). The derivation from Greek ""pan-"" (""all"") and ""ther"" (""beast"") is likely incorrect folk etymology. In 1758, Carl Linnaeus described the"
"San Francisco Zoo tiger attacks Two tiger attacks occurred at the San Francisco Zoo, in 2006 and 2007, both involving a female Siberian tiger named Tatiana (June 27, 2003 – December 25, 2007). In the first incident, a zookeeper was bitten on the arm during a public feeding. In the second incident, one person was killed and two others were injured before police shot and killed Tatiana. Tatiana was born at the Denver Zoo on June 27, 2003, and was brought to the San Francisco Zoo on December 16, 2005, to provide the 14-year-old Siberian tiger, Tony, with a mate."
"Tiger The tiger (""Panthera tigris"") is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus ""Panthera"" with the lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard. It is an apex predator, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. It is territorial and generally a solitary but social predator, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support its prey requirements. This, coupled with the fact that it is indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant"
"tigers (a female named Damai and a male named Sparky) and a male Amur Tiger named Pavel between the three exhibits. One of the zoo's tigers, Soyono, was euthanized in November 2012. She was 19 years old, which is close to the limits of her life span. The tiger looked to be suffering from spondylosis, a degenerative spinal disorder, which afflicts big cats as they get older. On January 24, 2014, the zoo's 10-year-old female lion, Nababiep, gave birth to three cubs in an eight-hour period. Two of the cubs survived, and were the first lion cub litter born at"
"identity and so on via neural implants, and which travel to the planets Crucible and Orison aboard holoships, supported by members of the Akinya spacefaring family. Tantor Tantor is a generic name for elephants in ""Mangani"", the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of ""Tantor"", most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"". The Tantor who becomes Tarzan's companion is referred to only in passing in ""Tarzan"
"and starring Willem Dafoe. Thylacine The thylacine ( , or , also ; ""Thylacinus cynocephalus"") was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger (because of its striped lower back) or the Tasmanian wolf (because of its canid-like appearance, traits and attributes). Native to continental Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, it is believed to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its family, Thylacinidae; specimens of other members of the family have been found in the fossil record dating back to the late Oligocene. Surviving"
"when the panther finally arrives at Anderson's hut - in repayment Anderson takes the dog home and names him 'Nipper'. The Striped Terror of Chamala Valley In 1937 a tiger is responsible for the death of seven people in the space of six months. Anderson locates the tiger by tying out baits, and though not fully equipped he decides to sit up over a kill and await the tigers return. Successfully killing the tiger, the locals help to carry it back to the village, though Anderson begins to doubt if in fact this is the correct tiger. Days later a"
"devil and the tiger quoll. Such specialisation probably made the thylacine susceptible to small disturbances to the ecosystem. Although the living grey wolf is widely seen as the thylacine's counterpart, a recent study proposes that thylacine was more of an ambush predator as opposed to a pursuit predator. In fact, the predatory behaviour of the thylacine was probably closer to ambushing felids than to large pursuit canids. Consequently, at least in terms of the postcranial anatomy, the vernacular name of ""Tasmanian tiger"" may be more apt than ""marsupial wolf"". Australia lost more than 90% of its larger terrestrial vertebrates by"