The Bali tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) was a tiger population that lived in the Indonesian island of Bali. This population has been extinct since the 1950s. It was formerly regarded as a distinct tiger subspecies, Panthera tigris balica, which had been assessed as extinct on the IUCN Red List in 2008. In 2017, felid taxonomy was revised and this subspecies subordinated to P. t. sondaica, which also includes the still surviving Sumatran tiger. Results of mtDNA analysis of 23 tiger samples from museum collections indicate that tigers colonized the Sunda Islands throughout the last glacial period 11,000–12,000 years ago.In Bali, the last tigers were recorded in the late 1930s. A few individuals likely survived into the 1940s and possibly 1950s. This population was hunted to extirpation and its natural habitat converted for human use. Balinese names for the tiger are harimau Bali and samong.
The Bali tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) was a tiger population that lived in the Indonesian island of Bali. This population has been extinct since the 1950s. It was formerly regarded as a distinct tiger subspecies, Panthera tigris balica, which had been assessed as extinct on the IUCN Red List in 2008. In 2017, felid taxonomy was revised and this subspecies subordinated to P. t. sondaica, which also includes the still surviving Sumatran tiger. Balinese names for the tiger are harimau Bali and samong.