Did you know...
- The Bengal tiger is found in isolated populations across India, and in Bangladesh, West Bengal, Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma.
- It is a soliditary cat, that can kill by its stealth and ambush.
- This tiger kills with a bite to the throat, using its long canine teeth.
- The tiger can kill prey enough for more than one meal.
(They can eat up to 66 lbs. of meat each meal!)
- Like many big cats, the Bengal tiger will even eat meat once it has began to rot.
- The tiger is an excellent swimmer, and is actually, the most water loving of all the big cats.
- A tiger will have his own territory, mostly covering and area up to forty square miles!
- White tigers are not a different breed, but a result of genetic mutation.
- Fifteen months after breeding, two to four tiger cubs will be born.
- By the age of eighten months, a tiger cub will be able to hunt and fed itself.
- The Bengal tiger is the most numerous species of tiger, with 3,000 to 5,000 in the wild.
- It may be up to this species to keep the animal alive, because tigers are still killed daily in Asia.
I got all my information on the Bengal tiger from Wildlife Fact File.
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