Royal Bengal Tiger
Royal Bengal Tiger or Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is one of the largest and most numerous of the tiger sub spices. Bengal tigers are mostly find in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma and China. 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.
Physical Descriptions:
Male Bengal tigers are average 9 feet or 3 meters in length and 225 kgs or 500 pounds in weight. Female Bengal tigers have approximately 8 feet or 2.5 meters length and 135 kgs or 300 pounds weight. The Bengal tiger has a magnificent appearance. These tiger spices are found in the variation of colors in reddish orange with narrow black, gray or brown stripes, white colors with or without black stripes. Bengal Tigers have yellow irises and white Tigers have blue eyes.
Biological Informaton:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: P. tigris
Subspecies: P. t. tigris
Biological Name: Panthera tigris tigris
Diet:
In the wild Bengal tigers are pure carnivorous and hunt cattle, buffalo, deer, rabbits, wild boars, pig, antelope, occasional fowl and available small mammals. Bengal tiger prepare to go on prey at night time. Bengal Tiger usually drag its kill to a safe place to eat and it can consume up about 40 pounds or 20 kg meat at a time.
Reproduction and Offspring:
Tigers will mate throughout the year, but most frequently between the November and April. After a gestation period of 103 days a litter of up to 7 cubs, although averaging 3, is born. The females can have cubs at the age of 3-4 years; males reach maturity in about 4 years. Newborn babies weigh about 2.2 pounds and are blind and helpless. The mother feeds them milk for 6-8 weeks and then the cubs are introduced to meat. Cubs will leave their mothers as young as 18 months old, or as old as 28 months old.
Behaviors:
Bengal Tigers are good swimmers, but poor climbers. They depend on an acute sense of hearing to help them stalk prey.
Bengal Tigers Found in Indian National Parks:
Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh
Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan
Sunderban National Park, West Bangal
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh
Corbett, Tiger Reserve, Uttaranchal
Sariska National Park, Rajasthan
Manas Tiger Reserve, Assam
