Tiger 3d Cisewu

Statue of tiger in Koramil Cisewu, Garut, West Java, becoming viral all over the country, even to foreign countries. Because the statue was faced humorous, portrait scattered network of virtual worlds and inviting charm. Now tiger funny, so public mention of the statue, the statue had been taken down and replaced by a more gahar tiger.

Maung Siliwangi is synonymous with Tatar Pasundan, often associated with the legend of King Siliwangi or Baduga Sri Maharaja are estimated to live in the 15th century AD. Then the Regional Military Command III / Siliwangi locals take inspiration from the symbolism inherent long ago it was. Of the figure of King Siliwangi centuries away from the current generation. But whether friends 'tiger funny' there are those who walk on the island of Java?

In Indonesian, the term 'tiger' and 'tigers' are often used interchangeably. Some choose to distinguish, leopards can climb trees and tigers can not climb trees. The tiger is more synonymous with striped on the hair of the body, such as the Sumatran tiger. While the tiger is often associated with a family of big cats are patterned spots or dark colored, eg leopard or panther.

In Sundanese, there is the term 'Maung' which refers to the tiger stripe. As in the Java language, the tiger is often referred to as 'tiger stripe', others refer to it as 'Sima'.

In scientific language, tigers living on the island of Java, called Panthera tigris sondaica, is the popular term 'Java tiger'. Of these cross-boundary designation ethnic space inhabited by humans, let alone scientists categorize the Java tiger living area including the Sunda Shelf (Sundaland).

Unfortunately, friends cute tiger Cisewu it was declared extinct. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in its official website that be visited by AFP on Sunday (19/03/2017) describes the Java tiger has been declared extinct since the 1970s. The cause of extinction was hunting, loss of forests as a habitat, and loss of prey.

Extinct Javan tiger was also confirmed through a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Florida, USA, in 1996 ago.

But is it so? In fact the testimony for the sake of the testimony of Java tiger sightings appeared sporadically in other times and places. Whether true or not, it is still difficult to prove. Here are the signs where the Java tiger.