One of these animals named Richard Parker spends 227 days on a lifeboat with the title character of Yann Martel's The Life of Pi.
A character nicknamed a⧔er this animal narrates his rise from poverty in a Booker-winning novel framed as a letter to Chinese premier Wen Jiabao. One of these animals, which travels with a smaller companion to an island made of algae and populated by meerkats, takes its name from two separate victims of shipboard cannibalism. Aravind Adiga created a character named Balram in a novel titled for a "white" one of these animals. One of these animals in⢄ltrates Akela's wolf pack as part of an attempt to hunt Mowgli. One of these animals named Richard Parker spends 227 days on a lifeboat with the title character of Yann Martel's The Life of Pi. The villain of The Jungle Book, Shere Khan, is, for 10 points, what type of big cat that, proverbially, cannot change its stripes?
A character nicknamed a⧔er this animal narrates his rise from poverty in a Booker-winning novel framed as a letter to Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.
tigers [or Panthera tigris; or P. tigris; accept The White Tiger; prompt on "big cats"]