巴厘虎

bālíhǔ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

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

Examples

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

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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