"No, such a beast should not be native to this island," she explains. Likely, the story goes the other way; it was a survivor of a shipwreck, stranded here. Honestly, this place is barely large enough to support one creature this size, let alone enough to support a breeding population." Rosie then answers his other question, "Probably? Greed. The pelt of this tiger is probably worth a few hundred gold to a collector. That, or it came out onto the shore to chase them inland, who knows?"