Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am Shrishti Lunia. Today, I am going to tell you about tigers. So be careful as we are going to travel into the world of tigers. I hope the adventure will be fantastic.
Currently, tigers are found in a variety of habitats in South and Southeast Asia, China, and eastern Russia. They thrive in temperate, tropical, or evergreen forests, mangrove swamps, and grasslands. The tiger helps maintain a healthy ecosystem and a balanced food chain, and as an apex predator, it is India's national animal.
Types of Tigers
- Royal Bengal Tiger:
- Habitat: Tropical forests of the Indian subcontinent, Bhutan (up to 4500 m above sea level), and mangrove forests.
- Amur Tiger:
- Habitat: Snowfields, evergreen forests, mangrove swamps, grasslands, and birch forests in eastern Russia, China, and North Korea.
- Characteristics: Solitary animals.
- Sumatran Tiger:
- Habitat: Forests of Sumatra.
- Characteristics: Orange fur with thick black stripes.
- Status: Less than 400 remaining due to deforestation and poaching.
- Caspian Tiger:
- Habitat: Eastern Turkey, southern Caucasus, northern Iran, Iraq, northwestern China, and Central Asia.
- Status: Disappeared by the early 1880s.
- Javan Tiger (Panther tiger is sondaica):
- Habitat: Indonesian island of Java until the mid-1970s, evergreen forests, mangroves, and grasslands.
- Indochinese Tiger:
- Habitat: Tropical and subtropical forests of South Asia, native to Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- Characteristics: Strong, long legs allow them to jump high, swim, and run up to 60 miles per hour.
- Malayan Tiger:
- Habitat: Malay Peninsula and southern Thailand.
- Status: Threatened by deforestation, poaching, and human-tiger conflict.
- Bornean Tiger:
- Habitat: Island of Borneo in prehistoric times.
- Status: Potentially extinct.
- South China Tiger:
- Discovery: Found in Xiamen, Fujian Province by American naturalist Harry Caldwell in the early 19th century.
- Status: One of China's 10 endangered species, protected as a first-class animal.
Diet and Lifespan
- Favorite Food: Deer and wild boar, including sambar deer, chita...
