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There have been numerous historical cases of man-eating tigers; sometimes claiming hundreds of victims. However, the animals involved were often found to have been injured, frequently by [[porcupine]]s or [[gun]]shot wounds, and healthy tigers do not generally eat people.
 
There have been numerous historical cases of man-eating tigers; sometimes claiming hundreds of victims. However, the animals involved were often found to have been injured, frequently by [[porcupine]]s or [[gun]]shot wounds, and healthy tigers do not generally eat people.
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== Famous tigers in literature and popular culture ==
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*Tigger - in [[A.A. Milne]]'s [[Winnie the Pooh]].
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*Sher Khan - in [[Kipling]]'s ''The Jungle Book''.
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*Hobbes - in the comic [[Calvin and Hobbes]].
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*Tony the Tiger - a corporate icon associated with [[breakfast cereal]].
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*The Esso Tiger - in [[Canada]] the official symbol for [[Imperial Oil]].
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*The [[Detroit Tigers]] of Major League Baseball.
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*The year of the tiger is one of the twelve years of [[Chinese]] [[astrology]].
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*The longest running version of Mac OS X, version 10.4, was known as 'Tiger'.
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*The [[Cincinnati Bengals]] of the [[National Football League]].
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*Tassie Tigers cricket team.
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*[[Tiger Woods]], the greatest golfer of his generation.
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*Canada's 'Giant Tiger' [[discount store]].
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*Tiger Jackson, a character from the [[video game]] Tekken 3.
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*Tiger-Tiger [[ice cream]], a delicious blend of licorice and orange ice cream.
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*Tiger Beer, the most successful brand of [[beer]] in South Asia.
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* And the most literary of all - [[William Blake]]'s:
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:''Tyger! Tyger! burning bright''
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:''In the forests of the night,''
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:''What immortal hand or eye''
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:''Can frame thy fearful symmetry?''
      
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