巴厘虎

bālíhǔ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Bali tiger (Panthera tigris balica, extinct subspecies)

Examples

HSK 6
Zuìhòu yī zhī yǒu jìlù de yěshēng bālíhǔ sǐ yú èrshí shìjì sìshí niándài.
The last recorded wild Bali tiger died in the 1940s.
HSK 7-9
Bālíhǔ shì Yìndùníxīyà Bālídǎo tèyǒu de yàzhǒng, yǐjīng mièjué.
The Bali tiger was a subspecies endemic to Bali, Indonesia, and is now extinct.

Tips

history
The smallest of the historical tiger subspecies, hunted to extinction on Bali by the mid-20th century. Traditional Balinese culture feared and revered it - the tiger features in Barong-Rangda mythology - but agricultural expansion and trophy hunting finished it off.

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