The Bengal tiger
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
This felid with the massive and muscular body always caused admiration at the man, but also of terror. Indeed, the Bengal tiger can kill an animal 2 times larger than him and it is what does of it one of largest predatory current animal kingdom.
The peeling of the tiger ensures to him an adequate camouflage for its environment. Thus its stripes enable him to be melted within the vegetation without being considering.
The Bengal tiger has very impressive teeth. It employs its canines to shred the pulpit of its preys. This tiger is much smaller and has a peeling darker than his/her cousin the Siberian tiger. Male and female are similar and difficult to differentiate, if it is not that the moustache of the male is larger than those of the female.
A male occupies a territory of 60 km² whereas the female is satisfied with only 30 km².
This tiger measures between 1.80 m and 2.80 m overall length and its weight vary between 150 kg and 250 kg, weight maximum for a male. It can live up to 16 years in freedom.
BEHAVIOR
The tiger of Bengal, just like its cousins, is one loner which does not like not to divide sound territory with other tigers. To discourage the intruders, all the tigers mark their territory while urinating of very strong secretions which announce their presence. They also lacerate the bark of the trees. When they catch a prey, he eats until more hunger then draw the remainders from the carcass to hide it under sheets or in a thicket to be able to find it when they are again hungry.
DISTRIBUTION
The strongest population of Bengal tigers is in the area of Sundarbans in India and in Bangladesh. One can also find some in central India and of north like in Burma and in Nepal.
They need an extended living space on which they can drive out with their own way. The territory of the male can sometimes exceed 100 km ². A tiger has several dens on its vital domain and uses that which is appropriate to him best at the time.
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