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KAI DNYANOJRORAV SALUKHE HIGSHOOL PATAN. Sanket Sanjay Thoke Std 8th A. Tigers In India. KING OF TIGERS. BANGALE OF TIGERS. The Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ) is a tiger , and is the national animal of Bangladesh and India. CHARACTARISTICS.
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Sanket Sanjay Thoke Std 8th A Tigers In India
BANGALE OF TIGERS The Bengal tiger (Pantheratigristigris) is a tiger, and is the national animal of Bangladesh and India.
CHARACTARISTICS • The Bengal tiger's coat is yellow to light orange, with stripes ranging from dark brown to black; the belly and the interior parts of the limbs are white, and the tail is orange with black rings.
HUNTING • Tigers are carnivores. They prefer hunting large ungulates such as chital, sambar, gaur, and to a lesser extent also barasingha, water buffalo, nilgai, serow and takin. Among the medium-sized prey specieas they frequently kill wild boar, and occasionally hog deer, muntjac and Gray langur. Small prey species such as porcupines, hares and peafowl form a very small part in their diet. Due to the encroachment of humans into their habitat, they also prey on domestic livestock.[36][
GENETIC ANCESTRY • Bengal tigers are defined by three distinct mitochondrialnucleotide sites and 12 unique microsatellite alleles. The pattern of genetic variation in the Bengal tiger corresponds to the premise that they arrived in India approximately 12,000 years ago.[17] This is consistent with the lack of tiger fossils from the Indian subcontinent prior to the late Pleistocene and the absence of tigers from Sri Lanka, which was separated from the subcontinent by rising sea levels in the early Holocene.[18]
HUNTING & DIET • Tigers are carnivores. They prefer hunting large ungulates such as chital, sambar, gaur, and to a lesser extent also barasingha, water buffalo, nilgai, serow and takin. Among the medium-sized prey species they frequently kill wild boar, and occasionally hog deer, muntjac and Gray langur. Small prey species such as porcupines, hares and peafowl form a very small part in their diet. Due to the encroachment of humans into their habitat, they also prey on domestic livestock • DIET
TIGER POPULATION OF INDIA • Tiger population of India • The total Tiger population of India is estimated at 3846. State wise statistics of Tiger population: • Andhra Pradesh 171 Arunachal Pradesh 180 Assam 458 Bihar 103 Goa,Daman&Diu 6 Gujrat 1 Karnataka 350 Kerala 57 Madhya Pradesh 927 Maharastra 257 Manipur 31 Meghalaya 53 Mizoram 12 Nagaland 83 Orissa 194 Rajasthan 58 Sikkim 2 Tamil Nadu 62 Tripura 5 Utter Pradesh 475 West Bengal 361
Comparable in size • Tigers are apex predators and the largest feline species in the world, comparable in size to the biggest fossil felids. They are the heaviest cats, weighing between 200 and 320 kilograms (440 and 700 lb) and females between 120 and 181 kg (265 and 400 lb). On average, males are between 2.6 and 3.3 metres (8 ft 6 in to 10 ft 8 in) in length, and females are between 2.3 and 2.75 metres (7 ft 6 in and 9 ft) in length
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