Tiger Ecology
Table of contents
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………....3
Color and Appearance………………………………………………………………………………………3
Habitat………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
The Mating and Courtship of Tigers………………………………………………………………………..5
Tiger Diet and Eating Habits……………………………………………………………………………….6
The Life of Tigers…………………………………………………………………………………………..7
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………….8
The tiger that once ruled folklore and mythology has continued to retain its dominance in modern literature and fiction. Tigers have left their mark on flags, mascots and coat-of-arms. It’s the national animal of Bangladesh. The Royal Bengal Tiger is the state animal of West Bengal State in India (IUCN, 1). One of the first scientific descriptions of the species was given by Linnaeus in 1758 as Felis tigris. In 1929, Reginald Pocock, British taxonomist , subordinated this species to be Panthera tigris. It is probably derived from an archaic Greek word "panther" and the Latin "panthera". Latin "tigris" refers to a spotted tiger-like hound. In Greek there is the word ‘Tigris’ – its source being Persian. The importance of study of tiger is primal in ecological sustainability. According to John Seidensticker (1999) “Top carnivores, including eagles, tigers, and great white sharks, are predestined by their perch at the apex of the food web to be big in size and sparse in numbers. They live on such a small portion of life 's available energy as always to skirt the edge of extinction, and they are the first to suffer when the ecosystem around them starts to erode” (p.55).
COLOR AND APPEARANCE
Among the cat species, the largest is the tiger. The male tiger outweighs and outsize 's the female tiger. Depending on the type of tiger, the body size varies in length from 4feet 7inches to 9feet10 inches, including the tail. The tiger may weigh up to 660 lbs in the larger species, and as in the smaller ones the weight ranges around 310lbs . The size and color vary
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………....3
Color and Appearance………………………………………………………………………………………3
Habitat………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
The Mating and Courtship of Tigers………………………………………………………………………..5
Tiger Diet and Eating Habits……………………………………………………………………………….6
The Life of Tigers…………………………………………………………………………………………..7
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………….8
The tiger that once ruled folklore and mythology has continued to retain its dominance in modern literature and fiction. Tigers have left their mark on flags, mascots and coat-of-arms. It’s the national animal of Bangladesh. The Royal Bengal Tiger is the state animal of West Bengal State in India (IUCN, 1). One of the first scientific descriptions of the species was given by Linnaeus in 1758 as Felis tigris. In 1929, Reginald Pocock, British taxonomist , subordinated this species to be Panthera tigris. It is probably derived from an archaic Greek word "panther" and the Latin "panthera". Latin "tigris" refers to a spotted tiger-like hound. In Greek there is the word ‘Tigris’ – its source being Persian. The importance of study of tiger is primal in ecological sustainability. According to John Seidensticker (1999) “Top carnivores, including eagles, tigers, and great white sharks, are predestined by their perch at the apex of the food web to be big in size and sparse in numbers. They live on such a small portion of life 's available energy as always to skirt the edge of extinction, and they are the first to suffer when the ecosystem around them starts to erode” (p.55).
COLOR AND APPEARANCE
Among the cat species, the largest is the tiger. The male tiger outweighs and outsize 's the female tiger. Depending on the type of tiger, the body size varies in length from 4feet 7inches to 9feet10 inches, including the tail. The tiger may weigh up to 660 lbs in the larger species, and as in the smaller ones the weight ranges around 310lbs . The size and color vary
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