Tiger Work is a collection of short stories, poetry and essays in which the author blends fantasy and magic to imagine the consequences of climate change, through a future where “forests are becoming legends, rare as unicorns”. a b c d Thapar, V. (1994). The Tiger's Destiny. London: Kyle Cathie. pp.47, 174–175. ISBN 978-1-85626-142-5.

I wouldn't have called all that environmentalism. I would have called it, then, just really paying attention to what is going wrong in our world, that you can't give a name to and that's very important.”

In 1991 Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished Road (1991). Set in a Nigerian village, this is the first in a trilogy of novels which tell the story of Azaro, a spirit child. Azaro's narrative is continued in Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches (1998). Other recent fiction includes Astonishing the Gods (1995) and Dangerous Love (1996), which was awarded the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000. There followed In Arcadia (2002) and Starbook (2007). a b c Driscoll, C. A.; Yamaguchi, N.; Bar-Gal, G. K.; Roca, A. L.; Luo, S.; MacDonald, D. W. & O'Brien, S. J. (2009). "Mitochondrial Phylogeography Illuminates the Origin of the Extinct Caspian Tiger and Its Relationship to the Amur Tiger". PLOS ONE. 4 (1): e4125. Bibcode: 2009PLoSO...4.4125D. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004125. PMC 2624500. PMID 19142238. Smith, J. L. D. (1993). "The role of dispersal in structuring the Chitwan tiger population". Behaviour. 124 (3): 165–195. doi: 10.1163/156853993X00560.

The tiger is one of the animals displayed on the Pashupati seal of the Indus Valley civilisation. The tiger was the emblem of the Chola Dynasty and was depicted on coins, seals and banners. [210] The seals of several Chola copper coins show the tiger, the Pandyan emblem fish and the Chera emblem bow, indicating that the Cholas had achieved political supremacy over the latter two dynasties. Gold coins found in Kavilayadavalli in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh have motifs of the tiger, bow and some indistinct marks. [211] The tiger symbol of Chola Empire was later adopted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the tiger became a symbol of the unrecognised state of Tamil Eelam and Tamil independence movement. [212] The Bengal tiger is the national animal of India and Bangladesh. [213] The Malaysian tiger is the national animal of Malaysia. [214] The Siberian tiger is the national animal of South Korea. [ citation needed] The Tiger is featured on the logo of the Delhi Capitals IPL team. Rabinowitz, A. (2009). "Stop the bleeding: implementing a strategic Tiger Conservation Protocol" (PKaranth, K. U. & Sunquist, M. E. (1995). "Prey Selection by Tiger, Leopard and Dhole in Tropical Forests". Journal of Animal Ecology. 64 (4): 439–450. doi: 10.2307/5647. JSTOR 5647. The tiger was first scientifically described in 1758. It once ranged widely from the Eastern Anatolia Region in the west to the Amur River basin in the east, and in the south from the foothills of the Himalayas to Bali in the Sunda Islands. Since the early 20th century, tiger populations have lost at least 93% of their historic range and have been extirpated from Western and Central Asia, the islands of Java and Bali, and in large areas of Southeast and South Asia and China. What remains of the range where tigers still roam free is fragmented, stretching in spots from Siberian temperate forests to subtropical and tropical forests on the Indian subcontinent, Indochina and a single Indonesian island, Sumatra. Karanth, K. U. & Nichols, J. D. (1998). "Estimation of tiger densities in India using photographic captures and recaptures" (PDF). Ecology. 79 (8): 2852–2862. doi: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2852:EOTDII]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 176521.

a b Piper, P. J.; Ochoa, J.; Lewis, H.; Paz, V.; Ronquillo, W. P. (2008). "The first evidence for the past presence of the tiger Panthera tigris (L.) on the island of Palawan, Philippines: extinction in an island population". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 264 (1–2): 123–127. Bibcode: 2008PPP...264..123P. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.003.Okri says it was important that the stories in Tiger Work not only created awareness, but directed readers to pose questions about where we go to next.

Adult tigers lead largely solitary lives. They establish and maintain territories but have much wider home ranges within which they roam. Resident adults of either sex generally confine their movements to their home ranges, within which they satisfy their needs and those of their growing cubs. Individuals sharing the same area are aware of each other's movements and activities. [90] The size of the home range mainly depends on prey abundance, geographic area and sex of the individual. [51] [23] In India, home ranges appear to be 50 to 1,000km 2 (19 to 386sqmi) while in Manchuria, they range from 500 to 4,000km 2 (190 to 1,540sqmi). In Nepal, defended territories are recorded to be 19 to 151km 2 (7.3 to 58.3sqmi) for males and 10 to 51km 2 (3.9 to 19.7sqmi) for females. [87] Tiger's historical range in about 1850 (pale yellow), excluding that of the Caspian tiger, and in 2006 (in green). [3] Major threats to the tiger include habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and poaching for fur and body parts, which have simultaneously greatly reduced tiger populations in the wild. [1] In India, only 11% of the historical tiger habitat remains due to habitat fragmentation. [136] Demand for tiger parts for use in traditional Chinese medicine has also been cited as a major threat to tiger populations. [137] [138] [139] Some estimates suggest that there are fewer than 2,500 mature breeding individuals, with no subpopulation containing more than 250 mature breeding individuals. [1] Robinson, R. (1969). "The white tigers of Rewa and gene homology in the Felidae". Genetica. 40 (1): 198–200. doi: 10.1007/BF01787350. PMID 5806538. S2CID 40514283. a b Sunquist, M.; Sunquist, F. (2002). "Tiger Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)". Wild Cats of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.343–372. ISBN 978-0-22-677999-7.Guillery, R. W.; Kaas, J. H. (1973). "Genetic abnormality of the visual pathways in a "white" tiger". Science. 180 (4092): 1287–1289. Bibcode: 1973Sci...180.1287G. doi: 10.1126/science.180.4092.1287. PMID 4707916. S2CID 28568341. Trouble for rhino from poacher and Bengal tiger". The Telegraph. 2008. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014 . Retrieved 3 June 2014. Panthera tigris trinilensis lived about 1.2million years ago and is known from fossils excavated near Trinil in Java. [36] The Wanhsien, Ngandong, Trinil, and Japanese tigers became extinct in prehistoric times. [37] Tigers reached India and northern Asia in the late Pleistocene, reaching eastern Beringia, Japan, and Sakhalin. Some fossil skulls are morphologically distinct from lion skulls, which could indicate tiger presence in Alaska during the last glacial period, about 100,000 years ago. [38] Facial expressions include the "defense threat", where an individual bares its teeth, flattens its ears and its pupils enlarge. Both males and females show a flehmen response, a characteristic grimace, when sniffing urine markings, but flehmen is more often associated with males detecting the markings made by tigresses in oestrus. [23] a b c d e f g h Heptner, V. G. & Sludskij, A. A. (1992) [1972]. "Tiger". Mlekopitajuščie Sovetskogo Soiuza. Moskva: Vysšaia Škola[ Mammals of the Soviet Union. Volume II, Part 2. Carnivora (Hyaenas and Cats)]. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation. pp.95–202.