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The Bengal tiger is found mainly throughout India, with smaller populations in southern Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and western Myanmar.The Cat Specialist Group IUCN reported an approximate total of 3,250 to 4,700 Bengal tigers throughout the range in 1995.
The strong jaw of the tiger is used to bite the throat or neck of the tiger's prey.
Tigers have incredible vision, their sight is enhanced by a reflecting layer behind the retina called the tapetum, whereby light is reflected back onto the retina, enabling tigers to see six times better than humans.
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  Bengal Tiger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bengal Tiger or Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is a subspecies of tiger found primarily in India.
Male Bengal Tigers measure 2.7 to 3.1 m (8.86 to 10.17 ft) in length, weigh 180 to 258 kg (418 to 569 lb), and have a maximum skull length of 329 to 378 mm (13 to 15 in.).
Female Bengal Tigers measure 2.4 to 2.65 m (7.87 to 8.69 ft) in length, weigh 100 to 160 kg (221 to 353 lb), and have a maximum skull length of 275 to 311 mm (11 to 12 in).
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 Tiger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tigers (Panthera tigris) are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus.
Tigers overpower their prey from almost any angle, usually from ambush, and bite the neck, often breaking the prey's spinal column or windpipe, or severing the jugular vein or carotid artery, much as the domestic cat does to far smaller prey.
The Bengal Tiger or the Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is largely found in the Sundarbans, a ravine forest of Bangladesh and of West Bengal, India.
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The strong jaw of the tiger is used to bite the throat or neck of the tiger's prey.
Tigers have incredible vision, their sight is enhanced by a reflecting layer behind the retina called the tapetum, whereby light is reflected back onto the retina, enabling tigers to see six times better than humans.
A White Tiger is the same as a Royal Bengal Tiger except for a genetic mutation that causes the change in the color of their fur and eyes.
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White tigers are basically a color variant of the Bengal tiger and are rarely found in the wild.
In the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh, the tiger's prey are chital (axis deer), wild boar, and monkeys.
Superstition has surrounded tigers for centuries; necklets of claws are thought to protect a child from "the evil eye", whiskers have been considered either a dreadful poison (Malaysia), a powerful aphrodisiac (Indonesia), or an aid to childbirth (India and Pakistan) and the bones, fat, liver and penis are prized as aphrodisiacs or medicines.
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Bengal tigers occasionally have a coat that is white instead of orange.
All of the pure strain captive Bengal tigers are housed in zoos in India except for 1 pure strain female Bengal tiger that is housed in the United States.
White tigers in zoos are inbred and crossbred mixtures of Bengal and Siberian.
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 Nepal Traveller,The Royal Bengal Tiger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tigers mark out their territory, but they are constantly on the move and when one moves away from its territory, another takes its place.
Tigers have been known to live upto 25 years in captivity but in the wild their life-span is considerably shorter.
The Tiger Ecology project funded by the Smithsonian Institute and WWF was initiated in 1973 to conduct research on the behaviour and ecology of Chitwan’s tigers and lasted until 1980.
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Tiger is the largest living member of the cat family.It has a royal look.
The Indian tigers, the Royal Bengal tiger is the most graceful animal found in Sundarban in Bengal.
The reasons for tiger becoming an endangered species are indefinite felling of trees resulting in the shrinkage of the habitat of the tiger, fall in the number of preys, increase of poaching for its beautiful skin.
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Royal Bengal Tiger or Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is one of the largest and most numerous of the tiger sub spices.
The Bengal tiger lives in a wide range of habitats, including the high-altitude, cold, coniferous Himalayan forests, grasslands, subtropical and tropical rainforests, scrub forests, wet and dry deciduous forests and mangroves.
These tiger spices are found in the variation of colors in reddish orange with narrow fl, gray or brown stripes, white colors with or without fl stripes.
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 Royal Bengal Tiger
All white Bengals in captivity in the USA originated from one white male bengal captured in India in 1951 and inbred with his offspring.
White tigers are simply a color variant of Bengal tigers and are rarely found in the wild.
All of the studbook-registered captive population is maintained in Indian zoos, except for one female Bengal tiger in North America.
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 White Bengal Tiger Pictures
Bengal Tigers - Originated from bengal tigers, these pets are bred at a cattery or may be found in a rescue.
Bengal Tiger Population - The bengal tiger population is scarce; a baby should be protected; you can see a photo on websites focused on their conservation.
Bengal Tiger Habitat - A bengal tiger habitat isn't usually a farm; babies are usually born in the wild.
www.bengal-tigers.org /bengal-tigers-site-map.htm   (3479 words)

  
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The habitat of this exquisite Tiger varies from the largest estuarine delta Sundarban, which is the biggest colony of the `Royal Bengal Tigers' to the desert land of Ranthambore, from the magnificent hills of Himalayas to Bandipur in the peninsular India.
For example, the authorities of the Buxa Tiger Reserve in North Bengal estimated the number of Royal Bengal tigers in the reserved areas as 32, as per the census in 1997, a notch above the figure of 31, as per the 1995 census.
The reasons for tiger becoming an endangered species are uncontrolled cutting of trees resulting in the shrinkage of the habitat of the tiger, decrease of preys and an increase of poaching for its beautiful skin.
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 Royal Bengal Tiger, India Travelog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Royal Bengal Tiger is the national animal of India and many projects have been developed to protect it.
I already knew that tigers are on the verge of extinction and India is the only country that provides a hope for future survival of tigers on earth.
The Bengal Tiger is native to the Indian Peninsular.
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 White Bengal Tiger,India White Bengal Tigers,Royal White Bengal Tigers,Indian White Bengal Tiger
Bengal tigers are also called as Indian tiger, they are the most numerous in population than any other tiger subspecies.
Tigers lead solitary lives, and the courtship period, and association between mother and cub is their only interaction and association.
Tigers are entirely different in their hunting habits from lions, and hence they are mutually exclusive in their distribution.
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White Bengal tigers (with white fur and fl stripes) are very rare in the wild.
Man-eating and cattle-killing are usually attributed to older tigers, injured tigers, or young adults unable to leave an over-crowded territory.
The life span of a Bengal Tiger on an average is probably not more than 15 years in the wild and 16 to 18 years in controlled environments.
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Bengal Tiger Safari - Gives you the opportunity to experience the wildlife odyssey in India by exploring the national park and wildlife sanctuaries on your Indian wildlife tour.
Also known as the Indian tiger, the Royal Bengal tiger ('Panthera tigris') is holds a very important place for itself in Indian wildlife.
Bengal Tiger is an endangered species of Cat family.
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 Royal Bengal tiger spotted in Tripura - The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
AGARTALA: Tigers may be disappearing from Sariska or some other reserve forests but the great Royal Bengal tiger has been spotted in Tripura, which has never had the big cat for last three decades.
A team of Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India, led by Sabyasachi Dasgupta, spotted a Royal Bengal tigress with two babies in the Trishna reserve forest where they had gone to study the status of bison recently, said conservator of forests, Asish K Roy.
Tracking of the pugmarks confirmed that the Bengal tiger is present in the state, the annual report of the Wildlife Institute said.
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Bengal tigers are mostly solitary, but sometimes travel in groups of 3 or 4.
When they want to eat animals that are faster than they are, the tiger stalks its prey The Bengal tiger, once it has caught its prey, bites its catch on the back of the neck to kill it, or.
Though the Bengal tiger is capable of killing large animals, it seems to prefer killing either young, small animals or older animals, since young and old animals are not as fast as the others.
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Royal Bardia National Park is the largest park in the lowland Terai covering an area of 968 sq.
Today's Royal Bardia National Park is bordered to the south by the Babai River, to the north by the Siwalik or Churia Hills, to the west by the Girwa River (a tributary of the Karnali), and to the east by a section of the East-West Highway which bisects the park.
The endangered Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is an elusive nocturnal hunter.
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Bengal Tigers (and all the Order Carnivora consisting of cats, dogs, bears, weasels) are descendants of a marten-like animal called the miacidae, which evolved during the late Cretaceous period.
The Saber-tooth Tiger was not the ancestor of modern Tigers; it was an evolutionary dead-end.
In the wild Bengal Tigers are pure carnivores and hunt medium-sized animals, such as rabbits, badgers, water buffalos, deer, wild boars, goats and sometimes they hunt domestic cattle.
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Unfortunately, tigers are facing a grave danger of extinction as large scale poaching is prevalent in the countries where these are found.
Male Indian tigers frequently weigh in excess of 250 kg and individuals in excess of 380 kg are verified.
These white Bengal tigers have icy blue eyes and fl, or brown stripes and a little brown coloring on the nose.
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 Tiger Conservation
In the last 100 years, tiger populations have declined by 95 per cent due to a combination of factors: habitat loss, trophy hunting, pest control, and the increased use of tiger bone-based medicines.
Both the rhino and the tiger populations in Jaldapara and the elephant and tiger population in Mahananda have shown upward trends.
A formal census regime of tiger population in Project Tiger reserves every two years, and in the rest of the areas every four years, as per guidelines of the Central Government, is strictly followed.
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There are 3 protected zones for Bengal tigers in Nepal inhabiting around 150-250 tigers, 4 protected areas in Bhutan housing 50-250 tigers, 3 protected areas in Bangladesh housing 300-450 tigers.
The International Tiger Studbook says the total captive population of pure- bred (there has been a lot of crossing of pure Bengals with tigers of unknown descent) Bengal tigers is 333.
All of the pure strain captive Bengal tigers are housed in zoos in India except for 1 pure strain female Bengal tiger that is housed in the United States.
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There are around 50 tigers in Corbett, besides other wildlife like leopards, several lesser cats, the wild dog, porcupines, jackals, civets, sloth bear, fl bear, wild boar and a few hundred elephants.
The park harbours the largest number of tigers among the tiger reserves of the country and is the only Mangrove tiger land in the world.
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Gracefully built, tigers are the largest living members of the cat family and commonly weigh up to 500-600 pounds and reach a length of 9-10 feet, excluding the tail.
Tigers usually live up to 15 years in their natural environment and around 20 years, if they are kept in a secured environment like zoo.
White tigers are very rare and exotic species of tigers, which is very different from other tigers in terms of having ice-blue eyes, a pink nose, and creamy white fur with chocolate...
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The habitat of this elegant swift mammal (Bengal Tiger) varies from the swamps of the Sunderbans to the desert land at Ranthambore, from the foothills of Himalayas at Corbett National Park to Bandipur in the peninsular India.
If you are fascinated by the royal Bengal tiger and wish to see it in its natural surroundings, a visit to these tiger reserves is bound to be an enchanting one.
The reserve was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1958 and came under the "Project Tiger" as a tiger reserve in 1979.
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Due to above measures, it can thus be seen that out of five surviving sub-species of tigers, the position of the Bengal tiger animal is the most satisfactory and India accounts for 75 per cent of the species, which is roughly 60 percent of the global population of all tiger sub species put together.
Tigers rest during the day in the shade, and begin to hunt for food at dusk.
Tiger killings are split second affairs where the prey hardly has any chance of survival.
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The Bengal (Indian) tiger Panther Tigris Tigris, distributed throughout the humid forests and grasslands of Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal.
The Bengal tiger is India's national emblem and was declared so prior to 2500 B.C. Distribution: The home to Royal Bengal Tigers (Indian Tigers or panther Tigris) is India Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma where these graceful animals live mostly in sanctuaries.
In the wild Bengal Tigers are pure carnivores and hunt medium-sized animals, such as rabbits, badgers, water buffalos, deer, wild boars, goats and sometimes they hunt domestic cattle.The Bengal Indian tigers in the wild live for about 10 to 15 years while tigers in zoos usually live between 16 and 20 years.
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