Tiger (Swiss Family Robinson)

The Tiger is an animal who served as a minor antagonist who appeared in Disney's 1960 movie, Swiss Family Robinson.

In the movie
In the film, the Tiger is first seen hiding in the bushes near the beach, where it sees the Robinson family for the first time. It decides to take its leave after seeing Mother Robinson being frightened by a monitor lizard, which also scurries away.

The following day, the tiger finds Francis Robinson in the jungle away from the beach, trying to coax a baby elephant toward him so he could tie a rope around one of his legs. Seeing the elephant, the tiger decided the animal would be a suitable meal for it, and after waiting for the right moment, he made his appearance known to both the elephant and Francis.

Wanting to keep the elephant safe, Francis started throwing sticks at the tiger, which only aggravated the tiger, causing the big cat to divert its attention to the boy. Suddenly, the Great Danes Duke and Turk emerged, followed by Mother Robinson who took Francis with her. Duke and Turk meanwhile chased after the tiger and engaged in a battle against the animal. The tiger tried to sink its claws on the dogs, but Duke and Turk wouldn't let him get close enough. Eventually deciding it had had enough, the tiger took off into the jungle. Though the dogs tried to chase after it again, Francis called them back, claiming the tiger had had enough.

Later, after the Robinson family learned of the danger they would be in from Kuala and his pirate band, they made various traps to defend themselves. One of said traps were big pits that were dug into the ground and covered with palm leaves. One such pit had some meat as bait to lure the tiger living on the island into the pit. One night, the tiger came across the pit and fell in while trying to reach for the bait. Upon discovering the animal in the pit, Father Robinson, along with Fritz and Ernst stayed to recover the tiger pit while Francis ran off to tell Mother.

The following day, the pirates came to the island. Several pirates fell into the pits, including the tiger pit, but some managed to escape from the pit to avoid the tiger. In the end, when Father Robinson made logs roll down on the pirates, one of the logs fell into the tiger pit, which allowed the tiger to leave its pit, while chasing after one of the pirates.

Trivia

 * It is unknown if the tiger got to eat the pirate it was chasing near the end of the movie or not.
 * Walt Disney wanted the tiger to be in the movie to show that island had many threats to the Robinson family, a tiger being one of these threats.