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Bengal Tiger

Panthera tigris tigris

Description:

Most of the time these mystical creatures just lay on the ground somewhere in a corner where you can hardly see them. But one tiger went for a walk and i took this photo. I`m really happy about it. Soon after this he lay on the ground and stayed there. (who blames him :P)

Habitat:

In the Indian subcontinent, tigers inhabit tropical moist evergreen forests, tropical dry forests, tropical and subtropical moist deciduous forests, mangroves, subtropical and temperate upland forests, and alluvial grasslands. Latter tiger habitat once covered a huge swath of grassland and riverine and moist semi-deciduous forests along the major river system of the Gangetic and Brahmaputra plains, but has now been largely converted to agriculture or severely degraded. Today, the best examples of this habitat type are limitated to a few blocks at the base of the outer foothills of the Himalayas including the Tiger Conservation Units (TCUs) Rajaji-Corbett, Bardia-Banke, and the transboundary TCUs Chitwan-Parsa-Valmiki, Dudhwa-Kailali and Sukla Phanta-Kishanpur. Tiger densities in these blocks are high, in part a response to the extraordinary biomass of ungulate prey. Copied from wikipedia.

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KevinVink
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KevinVink

Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands

Spotted on Mar 23, 2012
Submitted on May 21, 2012

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