The Bali tiger (Panthera tigris balica) is an extinct tiger subspecies that was endemic to the Indonesian island of Bali. The last recorded sighting of a Bali tiger was in the 1930s. The most likely cause of their extinction was hunting and deforestation.
The Bali tiger is thought to have evolved from the Sunda tiger (Panthera tigris sundaica) between 12,000 and 15,000 years ago. They were medium-sized tigers, with a body length of up to 2.5 metres and a …