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
Range
India, Manchuria, China, and Indonesia
Habitat
Tropical rainforest, snow covered coniferous and deciduous forests, mangrove swamps, and drier forest types represented by tropical deciduous forests.
Bengal Tiger Facts
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The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris or Panthera tigris bengalensis) is sometimes known as the Royal Bengal tiger and is a subspecies of tiger.
The Bengal tiger is the second largest and the most common tiger subspecies.
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 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.
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Type: Mammal Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 8 to 10 years Size: Head and body, 5 to 6 ft (1.5 to 1.8 m); tail, ...
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
Found in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Burma (Myanmar)
From cold Himalayan forests to hot swamps to wet forests of north India to dry forests of Rajasthan ...
Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
Siberian or Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)-The largest member of the cat family, with an average length of 2.8 meters.
Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) ...
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
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): 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 (0:45)
A Siberian tiger groaning, licking and sniffing (0:32)
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The Bengal tiger (Pantera tigris tigris) is the most numerous of the endangered tiger subspecies, with probably fewer than 2,000 remaining at large in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
The Bengal Tiger (Panthera Tigris Tigris) is found in parts of Burma, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan.
The Indochinese Tiger (Panthera Tigris Corbetti) is found in parts of Eastern Burma, Vietnam and Thailand.
Although examples of both species present considerable variations in size, it is ascertained that the length of the largest-sized Bengal tiger may exceed that of any lion.
Bengal tigers, P. t. tigris, are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. Indochinese tigers, P. t. corbetti, are found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. South China tigers, P. t.
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).
Bengal tigers, which inhabit the forests of India, have quintessential tiger appearance: a dark orange coat, black stripes and a white underbelly.
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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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
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