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Javan tiger
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subspecies of mammal (fossil)
The Javan tiger was a subspecies of tiger that lived on the Indonesian island of Java but went extinct in the mid-20th century. It matters because its disappearance represents the loss of a distinct population of tigers due to habitat destruction and hunting, serving as a cautionary example of how human activities can drive animal species to extinction.
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Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- tiger
- Image
- Panthera tigris sondaica 01.jpg
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- Panthera tigris sondaica
- taxon rank
- subspecies
- IUCN conservation status
- extinct species
- taxon name
- Panthera tigris sondaica
- Commons category
- Panthera tigris sondaica
- taxon common name
- javanski tiger
- start time
- 1200000-00
- endemic to
- Java
- homonymous taxon
- Sunda Island tiger
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Encyclopedic overview
The Javan tiger was a Panthera tigris sondaica population native to the Indonesian island of Java. It was one of the three tiger populations that colonized the Sunda Islands during the last glacial period 110,000–12,000 years ago. It used to inhabit most of Java, but its natural habitat decreased continuously due to conversion for agricultural land use and infrastructure. By 1940, it had retreated to remote montane and forested areas. Since no evidence of a Javan tiger was found during several studies in the 1980s and 1990s, it was assessed as being extinct in 2008.
Taxonomy
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