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Bengal Tiger
Panthera tigris tigris
A tiger's stripes are in the skin, not just the fur: shave one and the pattern is still there, and the pattern is unique to the individual, which is why India's national tiger census works by photographing flanks with camera traps and matching them like fingerprints. India now h…
Did you know?
- A Bengal tiger's roar can be heard up to 3 kilometers (almost 2 miles) away.
- White tigers are not albinos, not a subspecies, and not "rare in the wild" — they are the product of a recessive pigmentation mutation, and essentially every white tiger in captivity descends from a single male, Mohan, caught in India in 1951, which is why they are so heavily inbred. Tigers have been recorded swimming several kilometres of open water. There are more tigers in captivity in the United States alone than remain in the wild worldwide.
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