About Royal Bengal Tiger :
The home to Royal Bengal Tigers (Indian Tigers or panthera tigris) is India
Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma where these graceful animals live
mostly in sanctuaries. The usual habitats for these animals are dense
forest, mangrove swamps, savannahs, rocky countries and lush grassland.
Royal Bengal Tigers are the most numerous in population than any other Tiger
subspecies. They are the largest living member of the cat family and the
fastest running animal.
Royal Bengal Tigers (and all the Order Carnivora consisting of cats, dogs, bears,
weasels) are descendants of a marten-like animal called the miacidae, which
evolved during the late Cretaceous period. The Saber-tooth Tiger was not the
ancestor of modern Tigers; it was an evolutionary dead-end.
In the wild Royal Bengal Tigers are pure carnivores and hunt medium-sized
animals, such as rabbits, badgers, water buffalos, deer, wild boars, goats
and sometimes they hunt domestic cattle. A Royal Bengal Tiger will drag the kill
to a safe place to eat. They are able to eat up to 40 pounds at a time and
then go without eating for days. Some Tigers become man-eaters, but it
happens to be very rare. In the zoo Royal Bengal Tigers are fed chicken, horsemeat
and kangaroo meat five days a week and fast on bones twice a week.
