Bengal Tiger

Bengal Tiger

Habitat: Bengal tigers are primarily found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Southern Tibet. The biomes that you can find a Bengal tiger in are grasslands, sub tropic and tropical rain forests, scrub forests, wet and dry decidous forests, and mangroves.

Physical Characteristics: Male tigers usually measure 275-310 cm including their tail. The tail is usually 85-95 cm long. They usually weigh 400- 520 pounds (180-270 kg’s). Female tigers and much smaller then the male tigers.   Their average weight is 310 pounds (141kgs) they can reach up to 400 pounds (180kgs.) The male tiger skull length is 330-380mm. The female tiger’s skull length is 275-311mm. Bengal tigers have orange-brown fur with black stripes. If you see a white Bengal tiger it is because it got mutated.

Diet: Bengal tigers hunt from small size animals to big size animals. The large sized animals that they hunt include wild boar, sambar, barasingha, chital, nilgai, gaur and water buffalo. Tigers also go fishing and they eat fish. The smaller animals that they prey on are hares, monkeys, langurs/ peacocks, carrion are also hunted a lot. There are also rare cases when a Bengal tiger would kill a baby African elephant. Or a baby rhino. Bengal’s also prey on other hunters such as leopards, wolves, jackals, foxes, crocodiles and dholes.

How they hunt: Bengal’s love to hunt in the daytime. They still stay awake during the night though. They hide in elephant tail it gives them excellent camouflage. They hunt their prey by overpowering them. They break the spinal cord of smaller animals. For larger prey they suffocate them by biting on their throat. Bengal’s can climb trees and swim.   The Bengal is an apex predator which means besides humans the Bengal has no other predator.

[pic]           A white 445lb Bengal tiger. It is swimming.

[pic]         This is a photo of a white Bengal tiger and a Bengal tiger.

[pic]   This is a Bengal tiger who is hunting....