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| Bengal tiger | |
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| Male in Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India | |
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| Female, about 2½ years old, at Kanha | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
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| Subspecies: | P. t. tigris |
| Trinomial name | |
| Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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| Range of Bengal tiger in red | |
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The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is a tiger subspecies native to the Indian subcontinent. It lives in Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and northern India. It is the National animal of Bangladesh.
The tiger's habitat includes tropical moist evergreen forests, tropical dry forests, tropical and subtropical moist deciduous forests, mangroves, subtropical and temperate upland forests, and alluvial grasslands.
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