Majesty or steadiness: researchers identify two tiger personality traits

Big cat's traits are on scale loosely comparable to introverts' and extroverts' in humans, experts say

From wily Shere Khan to exuberant Tony, tigers have often been depicted as full of character. Now research suggests that's no fiction, with scientists identifying two aspects of their personality.

Experts say that just as five dimensions of personality, including openness and neuroticism, are often used to describe humans - with everyone sitting somewhere on a scale for each trait - Siberian tigers all sit on two scales dubbed majesty" and steadiness".