The Old English tigras derives from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris, which was a borrowing from Classical Greek τίγρις 'tigris'. In the 1st century, Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro argued that the word tigris originates in the … 詳細

In 1758, Carl Linnaeus described 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, … 詳細

The tiger has a typical felid morphology; its body is muscular with shortened legs, strong forelimbs, broad paws, a large head and a tail that is about half the length of the rest of its body. There are five digits on the front feet and fou… 詳細