CBSE Class 9 Main Course Chapter 9: Save the Tiger NCERT Solutions

Solution: The fundamental cause of the dispute between the tiger and the man was the assertion of dominance and superiority. Both species believed themselves to be the most powerful and wanted to establish their supremacy over the other. Therefore, the correct option is:

1. to establish who was superior.

Solution: To assert his perceived superiority over the tiger, the man resorted to creating a symbolic representation. He carved a statue that depicted a man riding on the back of a tiger, visually suggesting that man had control and dominance over the powerful beast. The correct option is:

1. he carved a statue of a man riding a tiger.

Solution: The tiger, when confronted with the man's assertion of superiority through the statue, presented a clever counter-argument. The tiger pointed out that if the roles were reversed, and if the tiger were the sculptor, it would create a statue depicting the tiger dominating the man, thus challenging the man's one-sided view of power. The correct option is:

1. He said the situation would be reversed if he was the sculptor.

Solution: Here are two dialogues illustrating the scenarios:

Dialogue 1: A tiger behind bars and a man

Man: Hello, Mr. Tiger! You are now behind bars. No longer the king of the jungle, are you? You will have to listen to me now. I will be your dictator, and I'll appoint a ringmaster to train you in many tricks.

Tiger: I was the lord of the jungle from where you trapped me. You have violated the forest laws by caging me. This is an immoral act. Open the doors and let me return to my jungle!

Man: You tiger! Don't try to teach me law and ethics. I captured you after taking so much risk. I am not a fool to set you free.

Tiger: You are a rational animal, O man! Please be kind to me and set me free.

Man: Shut up! I am not going to set you free. Don't worry; here you will get fresh goat meat to eat.

Tiger: People like you are killing us daily. We have become an endangered species, with our numbers decreasing rapidly. Experts say only about 3000 of us are left.

Man: So what! If tigers don't live, other animals will survive in peace. They live in constant panic because of you tigers.

Tiger: This is not our fault. Nature created us and the food chain. If we don't hunt other animals, there will be an ecological imbalance. Man should not kill us, as we can live without man, but man cannot live without us.

Dialogue 2: A man in a cage and a tiger

Man: Have mercy on me, O tiger! You have caged me for no fault of mine. I am starving since yesterday and you haven't given me any food.

Tiger: What! Haven't I given you food? What is all this in the bowl next to you?

Man: O my lord, Tiger! How can I eat raw food? The food you have given is not cooked. I cannot eat this.

Tiger: Eat what you have got and stop weeping.

Man: O Tiger! I want to meet my wife and children. They are at home. I don't know how they are. Please release me and let me go! For the sake of my children, please let me go.

Tiger: What exactly do you want? Tell me. You have been caged not for nothing. I will take you to the jungle where you will perform in a circus in front of the animals. You will perform feats, and the animals will clap and applaud your performance. Ha ha ha...

Man: Oh no! Please don't do that. I understand that you are taking revenge for the ill-treatment we give to tigers.

Tiger: I have put you in a cage to teach you a lesson. I hope you can now empathize with our condition when we are put in cages. I will let you go if you pledge to protect tigers and other animals. I will let you be free if you encourage people not to buy any product made from animal body parts. I will let you go if you can educate people that they should stop hunting us.

Man: I agree to your conditions. Please free me. You are very wise and generous. O Tiger, you have not eaten me.

Tiger: I let you free. When you go back to your society, chant this slogan:

Save Tiger, The King Of The Jungle.

Solution: Here are the completed fill-in-the-blanks:

1. The next generation is not likely to see the tiger because of poaching and killing of tigers to make rugs and coats out of their skins.
2. Stringent laws against poachers must be enforced.
3. The responsibility of protection of the tiger lies with the government, especially the forest department.
4. One of the reasons for the Tiger becoming extinct is poaching.
5. Destroying nature means destroying ourselves.
6. The Bali, Javan and Caspian and Bengal are different types of tigers (Note: The source only provided two names for the blanks, but typically Bengal is included in such lists).
7. Project Tiger is a wild life conservation project.
8. Tigers are found in the evergreen and monsoon forests of the Indo-Malayan realm to the mixed coniferous-deciduous woodlands of the Russian Far East and the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans, shared by India and Bangladesh.
9. Though tigers are mostly nocturnal, some species may also be active during the day.
10. The body length of the tiger is variable, but typically around 270 cm including the tail for males cm. (Note: The source did not provide a specific number for length, this is an illustrative completion based on general knowledge).