Stuffed Animals

     The Bengal tigers are well-known for their attractive look. Its back has black, gray or brown colored vertical stripes all over the body, over a base color of reddish orange. The underside portion of the body has a creamy white color. As these prefer to hunt in the dark, the stripes on their body often help them to hide in the shadows of wild grass.

     On an average. the size of a male Bengal tiger is about 3 meters or 10 feet, and weighs about 500 pounds. A female tiger is around 9 feet and weighs 300 pounds. So far, the largest recorded size of a Bengal tiger is 857 pounds.

     Bengal tigers living in wild forests have an average lifespan of 15 years. On the other hand, when it is living in a captivated environment, it is likely to survive for a slightly longer period of time of around 16 to 18 years.

     Bengal tigers hunt down wild animals like pigs, deer, antelopes, buffalo of medium to large size, to get their food. In one feeding, a Bengal tiger can eat almost 70 pounds of meat! They love to be in water often tend to chase their prey into the water and eat it there.

     Basically, royal Bengal tigers are solitary creatures and love to live alone. They usually carry out activities like hunting and feeding on their own. They mark large areas of the forest as their territories with droppings, urine and scratch marks of claws, to keep away other rival hunting tigers. They are seen with another tigers only during the time of mating. Read the rest of this entry »