kingdom: animalia
phylum:chordata
class:mammalia
order: carnivora
family:felidae
genus: panthera
Species: tigris

JAVAN TIGER
The Javan tiger (Panther tigris sondaica) had the longest cheek whiskers that formed a short mane across the neck. Resembling the Sumatran in appearance, the Javan tiger was darker with more closely-spaced stripes. It was also a small sub-species with females weighing as little as 74kg to 115kg, while males were between 100kg and 141kg and measuring around 246cm in length. There is no record of the size of the female Javan, but she was more than likely about the size of the Sumatran tiger, and measured around 210cm. The growth of human population and Indonesia's agricultural development lead to the extinction of this sub-species, and while the Indonesian government has made efforts to preserve the tiger it was unfortunately too late for the Javan. As always, poaching had played a big part in its demise. Although they were believed to be erased in the 1940s, there were thought to be around a dozen of this species in the 1950s. The last Javan tiger was seen in 1976, and they were officially declared extinct by the 1980s.

CASPIAN TIGER
The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) once roamed the forests of Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran, Mongolia, and the Asiatic region of Russia. Not unlike their Bengal cousins, the female Caspians measured between 241cm to 259cm and weighing approximately 84kg to 135kg, while males were 264cm to 294cm in length and 169kg to 239kg in weight. They were known to the local people as the "travelling leopard" because of their habit of following wild pigs and reindeer, which appeared to be its primary prey. Like the Bengal race, Caspians had black stripes on their shoulders, their necks and the outer parts of their limbs. Deforestation and agricultural development forced the sub-species into regions they wouldn't normally inhabit, and with traps also laid by locals to help prevent tigers from attacking domestic livestock, these factors therefore contributed to the loss of this rare species of tiger. Despite many searches no traces have been found of this sub-species. Declining since the 1930s, it was declared extinct in 1980, although the last known Caspian tiger was killed in 1970 in Turkey.

BALI TIGER
The Bali tiger (Panthera tigris balica) was the smallest tiger of all the eight sub-species, and was half the size of the Siberian. Measuring between 190cm to 210cm, females weighed around 64kg to 79kg and males were usually 89kg to 100kg being 220cm to 231cm in length. Darker and with fewer stripes than its Indonesian cousins, like the Sumatran it was considered to be the "island tiger" and was very rarely seen. The last of this elusive sub-species was believed to have been killed in 1937, although they were possibly extinct by the end of World War II.

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