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Bengal Tiger Behaviour
Bengal tigers are mostly solitary, however, they sometimes travel in groups of 3 or 4 individuals. Bengal tigers reside in the low-land parts of the rainforest where there are grasslands and swamps.

Bengal Tiger
Mammal. There are 36 species of cat in the world, and tigers are the largest. Hearing is their sharpest sense, five times better than humans, and their night vision is six times stronger than humans.

Bengal Tigers
The home to Royal Bengal Tigers (Indian Tigers or panthera tigris) is India Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma where these graceful animals live mostly in sanctuaries.

BENGAL TIGER
The Bengal tiger's characteristic reddish gold fur and black stripes are easily visible to visitors in a zoo. But in the tiger's natural habitat of forest and reed beds, the markings act as camouflage and enable it to disappear from view.

Bengal Tiger
Panthera tigris tigris
A mother Bengal tiger and her cub rest in the tall grass of a meadow. Tiger cubs remain with their mothers for two to three years before dispersing to find their own territory.

Bengal Tiger
Most numerous tiger pushed out of its home
Scientific Name: Panthera tigris tigris ...

It is estimated that there are less than 3,000 Bengal tigers left in the wild.
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Bengal Tiger Panthera Tigris
Around 1900 there was a healthy thriving population of approximately one hundred thousand Bengal tigers.

Bengal Tiger
Sumatran Tiger
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Bengal tiger less than 2,500
Siberian tiger about 200
South China tiger will be extinct soon, if it isn't already
Indo-Chinese tiger about 1,200 scattered over a wide area
Sumatran tiger about 400
Caspian tiger extinct
Javan tiger extinct ...

Bengal tiger Panthera tigris tigris Found in parts of India and SE Asia, mostly living in varied habitats - grasslands, subtropical and tropical rainforests, scrub forests, wet and dry decidious forests and mangroves.

Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris): At the top of the forest food chain, this mighty, endangered cat slinks through the shadows in search of spotted deer and other prey, which sometimes includes sloth bears.

A Bengal tiger growling
A Siberian tiger groaning, licking and sniffing
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The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) or Indian tiger, is smaller than the Siberian. They have a length of 106-122 in (233.2 - 268.4 cm) for the males and 95-104 in (209 - 228.8 cm) for the females, from nose to tail tip.

According to 1995 population estimates, the Bengal tiger is the most numerous, with an estimated surviving population of 4,000. It is followed by the Indochinese tiger (1,100), the Sumatran tiger (400), and the Siberian tiger (250).

The Bengal tiger, which is about 3 m (about 10 ft) long, including the tail, and usually weighs 180 to 258 kg (400 to 569 lb), is found on the mainland of southeastern Asia and in central and southern India.

There are seven big cats: lions (most zoo lions are African lions, but some zoos keep the endangered Asiatic lion), tigers (the most common of the seven surviving subspecies is the Indian or Bengal tiger, the rarest are the Javan tiger, ...

When I think of tigers, whether the white, striped Siberian tiger, or its smaller gold and black cousin, the Bengal tiger, my initial feeling is one of awe for its magnificent body and enormous strength.

Amur (Siberian) tigers may weigh as much as 360 kg (790 lb). In India, male Bengal tigers usually weigh 200-270 kg (440 - 595 lb). Male Sumatran tigers weigh 100 - 140 kg (220 - 310 lb).
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This pow­erful carnivore is actually a member of the weasel family. But comparing a weasel to a badger is like comparing a house cat to Bengal tiger. While they are members of the same family they are too very different animals.

These are the reptile world's equivalent of great white sharks or Bengal tigers. They frequent ocean habitats as well as rivers and freshwater marshes near where people live. Their maximum size is enormous, more than 20 feet.

I found information from the San Francisco zoo on the Sumatran tiger. Other relative information is available from encyclopedias. Also if you would like know more about tigers at the Fort Worth Zoo, check out the Bengal Tiger or the Indochinese ...

The Bengal Tiger is the most common subspecies and exhibits the classic tiger coat: deep orange with white undersides, cheeks, and eye areas, and distinctive black markings that help camouflage it in the tall jungle grass.

However, small isolated parks may promote inbreeding and the future of the Bengal tiger is still in question.

See also: Tiger, Deer, Panther, Siberian tiger, Sumatran tiger