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Dunbar Brander, A.A.
The Tiger (_Panthera tigirs_ Linn.)
1934 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society: 126-142
In India the tiger is found under varying conditions of climate and environment. He has left his tracks in the winter snows of the Himalayas at an altitude of 10,000 ft. He lives in humid evergreen forest or in dry open jungle, in grassy swamps or in as amphibious terrain of trees and mud and water. No statistics are available to give an idea of the number of tigers living in different provinces in India. The opening of the country to settlement , the extermination of game animals, has driven the tiger from districts where he was once common. Where tigers are still found, their numbers probably fluctuate. Though supreme in his forests, the tiger is but one of a community of animals living within a particular area, and is so governed by all those forces which regulate the constantly varying density of its animal population.
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