Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: National Tiger Reserves

  • The Bengal tiger: Panthera tigris tigris

    James L. Franklin Chicago, Illinois, United States     The Indian subcontinent for millennia provided the ideal “jungle” habitat for the tiger. When the first Europeans arrived in India the animal was ubiquitous. At the close of the nineteenth century, when Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, 100,000 tigers were thought to roam the subcontinent. By…