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Bengal Tiger (Panthera Tigris Tigris)
The Bengal tiger, also known as the Indian tiger, is common to the subcontinent of India. But Bengals also range throughout Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar. The approx. population in the wild is 3, 159 - 4, 715 tigers and approx. 33 in captivity, mainly zoos in India. They reached the endangered point in mid 1940s, when hunting them was legal. The "white tiger" is just a colour variant of the Bengal tiger, "white tigers" are very rarely found in the wild. Bengals live in a really wide range of habitats. Some including the high-altitude, cold, coniferous Himalayan forests, the mangroves of Sunderbans, the reedlands, scorched hills of an Indian peninsula, forests of Northern India and the forests of Rajasthan. The female measures, on average, 2.5 metres (8 feet) in length, and weighs approx. 140 kilograms (300 pounds). The male is some what larger and measures, in length, about 2.9 metres (9.5 feet) and weighs about 220 kilograms (480 pounds) Their diet is primarily wild deer and cattle.
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