Tomorrow the Chinese New Year begins, and the third zodiac animal is everywhere on merchandise, from accessories and cosmetics to clothing and watches, in celebrating the Year of the Tiger.
Also saluting the big cat, we recall the greatest tiger characters of all time, such as Hobbes, Rajah, Shere Khan and Tigger, to name a few.
The most intriguing tiger character is perhaps the castaway Richard Parker in Life Of Pi. The inspiration for the philosophical novel came when Yann Martel was in India, whose national animal is the Panthera tigris -- the largest member of the cat family.
