Tiger in 1986: Ranthambore tourism boom

A hunter of man-eaters who wrote Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944) and later lent his name to India first national park -- a colonial-to-reserve arc. Are Siberian tigers a separate conservation? Panthera tigris tigris now lumps many mainland tigers in some taxonomies; Amur animals still have a Russian-Chinese border programme and a different prey winter.

Wild P. t. amoyensis is considered extinct or functionally so. Captive Chinese lines are a genetic and political argument, not a forest population. Project Tiger ideology said yes. Buffer people and corridor science later complicated the fortress model without dropping the core idea.

Tiger is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species. Scores compare the tiger with the other 23 types on speed, intelligence, range, resilience, cultural impact and ecological role. They are relative editorial marks. Resilience high means more secure; low means threatened. Endangered. Wild numbers rose in India after Project Tiger (1973) and Tx2 pledges (2010); Southeast Asian and South China lineages did not share that graph.