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Illegal trade in traditional, Asian medicine has also taken a toll. Products made from tiger parts have been traded for over 1,000 years, as Asian cultures believe in the healing power they claim the cats have, despite no evidence that such claims are valid.<ref>http://www.singlevisioninc.org/tiger_body_parts_sold.html</ref>
Illegal trade in traditional, Asian medicine has also taken a toll. Products made from tiger parts have been traded for over 1,000 years, as Asian cultures believe in the healing power they claim the cats have, despite no evidence that such claims are valid.<ref>http://www.singlevisioninc.org/tiger_body_parts_sold.html</ref>
==Tigers in popular culture==
The 1894 Rudyard Kipling novel ''The Jungle Book'' features an antagonistic tiger named Shere Khan (whose name means "king of tigers"). He is said to have been born lame and thus hunts domestic cattle as a result; he also shows little respect for the Law of the Jungle, only quoting it if it suited his own wants. He also kills a human couple and tries eating their baby (Mowgli), but a wolf pack defends him. As Mowgli grows up, Shere Khan stirs up rebellion against Akela among the younger wolves, but Mowgli defends Akela by chasing the tiger and the wolves away with fire. Shere Khan ultimately meets his end when Mowgli drives a herd of water buffalo into the gorge that he is resting in, the herd trampling him to death. The 1967 Disney film depicts Shere Khan as a more sophisticated and affable yet equally arrogant hunter, and its 2016 remake shows him as a more savage beast, murdering Akela to draw Mowgli into fighting him.
The newspaper comic ''Calvin and Hobbes'' stars the titular duo: a hyper imaginative boy named Calvin and his "stuffed" tiger Hobbes; Hobbes appears as a stuffed animal to many people, but he appears as a talking anthropomorphic tiger to Calvin. Hobbes gets into the same mischief that Calvin gets into, but he'll also tell him at times when that mischief will get them into trouble. He also takes pride in being a tiger, pouncing on Calvin as a greeting, and he also loves tuna sandwiches.
While tigers themselves do not appear in the Erin Hunter book series ''Warrior Cats'', the wild cat Clans revere tigers as mythical beings, believing that they had inherited their love of the night and fierce nature from tigers. A few cats in the series are named after them, including Tigerclaw and his grandson Tigerheart.
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