Bengal tiger

English right|thumb|A Bengal tiger Pronunciation en /bɛŋˈɡɔːl ˌtaɪɡə/ /bɛŋˈɡɑːl ˌtaɪɡə/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bengal tiger.wav Southern England en /bɛŋˈɡɑl ˌtaɪɡɚ/ /ˈbɛŋ.ɡəl ˌtaɪɡɚ/ US Noun Any tiger of a specific, fragmented population of the subspecies Panthera tigris tigris subspecies in the Indian subcontinent. en royal Bengal tiger en 2011 Devidas K. Belsare Vanishing Roar of Bengal Tigers RoseDog Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=By-wqOOHx30C&pg=PR9&dq=%22Bengal+tiger%22%7C%22Bengal+tigers%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVsazK_sH0AhWiSWwGHY0uBVIQ6AF6BAg-EAI#v=onepage&q=%22Bengal%20tiger%22%7C%22Bengal%20tigers%22&f=false ix Bengal tiger is considered sacred by Hindus and the antipodes (so-called no-caste tribes) living in the forests of India.In addition to this, the health of forests is determined by the presence of Bengal tigers. en 2012 Colleen A. Sexton The Bengal Tiger Bellwether Media https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mC8HH6pXeSAC&pg=PA18&dq=%22Bengal+tiger%22%7C%22Bengal+tigers%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVsazK_sH0AhWiSWwGHY0uBVIQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Bengal%20tiger%22%7C%22Bengal%20tigers%22&f=false 18 Bengal tigers are endangered animals. Their numbers have been dropping for more than a century. In the early 1900s, about 40,000 Bengal tigers lived in India. Today, that number stands at around 1,400. About 400 more Bengal tigers live in nearby countries. Usage notes Between 1911 and 2017, the definition of P. tigris tigris was restricted geographically so as to correspond exactly to that of the Bengal tiger. In 2017, it was expanded to include several other populations. Coordinate terms en Indochinese tiger en Malayan tiger en Siberian tiger en South China tiger en Caspian tiger† Translations population of Panthera tigris tigris Albanian: sq tigri i Bengalit Arabic: ar بَبْر بَنْغَالِيّ m Catalan: ca tigre de Bengala m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 孟加拉虎 mèngjiālāhǔ, cmn 印度虎 yìndùhǔ Danish: da Bengalsk tiger Dutch: nl Bengaalse tijger m Esperanto: eo bengalia tigro Finnish: fi intiantiikeri, fi bengalintiikeri French: fr tigre du Bengale m German: de Königstiger m, de Königstigerin f Hindi: hi Hungarian: hu bengáli tigris Ido: io Bengala tigro Indonesian: id harimau Benggala Japanese: ja ベンガル虎 bengaru tora, ja ロイヤル•ベンガルトラ roiyaru bengaru tora Kham: Sheshi Kham: kip बंगाली ला Khmer: km ខ្លាដំបង klaa dɑmbɑɑng, km ខ្លាធំបេងហ្គាល់ klaa tʰom beeŋgal Korean: ko 벵골호랑이 Macedonian: mk бенгалски тигар m Malay: ms harimau Benggala Norwegian: no Persian: fa Polish: pl tygrys bengalski m Portuguese: pt tigre-de-bengala Romanian: ro tigru bengalez m Russian: ru бенга́льский тигр m Slovene: sl bengalski tiger m Spanish: es tigre de Bengala Swahili: sw chui-milia wa Bungala Swedish: sv Bengalisk tiger Turkish: tr Bengal kaplanı Ukrainian: uk бенга́льський тигр m Vietnamese: vi hổ Bengal Volapük: vo regatigrid See also List of sequenced animal genomes Further reading Panthera tigris tigris 1 Panthera tigris tigris 1 Panthera tigris tigris 1 Canna 'Bengal Tiger' Tiger II en Panthers