The Bengal tiger is a unique and beautiful creature. ... Literally hundreds of organizations exist for the sole purpose of aiding the survival of the wild tiger, but it remains to be seen how effective their efforts are: the future of the wild Bengal tiger is not even close to being secure. ... The true estimate for the Indian population of Bengals in 1996 was probably fewer than 2,500 (Shah 132). The wild Bengal tiger faces many more threats than typically suspected by the average person. ... The real question to answer concerning the fate of the wild Bengal tiger is whether or not pe...

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The Royal Bengal Tiger is the largest animal in the cat family. ... The origin of the Bengal Tiger is most likely Siberia. ... The Bengal Tiger ranges from 7 to10 feet and weighs around 350-550 lbs. ... The major method that poachers use to kill the Bengal Tiger is with firearms. ... Generally, the Royal Bengal Tiger is endangered primarily due to humans. ...

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It was a picture of a Bengal tiger with piercing amber eyes. ... Reading and learning about everything all the facts of Bengal tigers this book could offer me. Did you know Bengal tigers are actually a subspecies of tiger? ... Bengal tigers live in India and are an important part of Indian cultures tradition and lore. ... How much could a Bengal tiger eat at one sitting? ...

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The Siberian white tigers are hybrid of a white Bengal tiger and a Siberian tiger. A tiger must have Bengal genes in order to be white, so all white tigers have at least a little bit of Bengal in them. ... The enemies of the white tiger are humans and other tigers. Not much else can hurt a tiger. ... Bengal tigers are hunted for there very nice furs and there high value on the black market. ...

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The five subspecies of tigers are scattered around 14 Asian countries and they are: Amur (Siberian), Bengal, Indo Chinese, Sumatran, South China. The extinct ones are: Bali tigers (which no one has seen since 1937 and no picture of it exists), Caspian tigers (extinct since 1970) and Java tigers (extinct since 1980). But there is also a white tiger, which is a color variation of Bengal tigers. ... Tiger fat is used to treat leprosy. ... Bengal tiger 3,176 4,556 Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal Amur tiger 366 406 China, N. ...

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The Amur tiger is presently threatened with extinction in the wild. ... The goal of this habitat conservation plan is to protect all existing tiger habitat, i.e., no further loss of Amur tiger habitat should occur. ... This core network acts to insure that the metapopulation of tigers will not be fragmented, provides for a minimum population of tigers, and provides a protected "reservoir" out of which tigers can emigrate to areas where tigers have been eliminated. ... In addition to this estimate of home range size, our available information suggests that, as has been noted by Russian biolo...

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How Does Mike the Tiger Live? How does Mike the Tiger live? ... He is the fifth tiger in a series of five tigers since 1936. ... The Bengal Tiger has been a staple of LSU sports since our first athletic event. One can tell why the tiger is so feared among the human race, the average size of a tiger is only around seven foot tall and around 450 lbs. ...

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In the novel "Life of PI" by Yann Martel published in 2001, Pi learns to survive in unbelievable circumstances all thanks to a bengal tiger named Richard Parker. ... After seeing a bengal tiger, much like Richard parker, brutally kill and eat an innocent goat, this gives Pi a solid impression of just how aggressive tigers are. Pi says, "Life goes on and you don't touch tigers" (Martel p.25). ... The fact that there was a bengal tiger on the lifeboat made him even more fearful yet determined at the same time. ... Imagine being alone on a lifeboat, now imagine it with a tiger. ...

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Yann Martel's award-winning novel, "Life of Pi," is a story about a 16-year-old Indian boy who survives a shipwreck and spends months on a lifeboat with an adult Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker." ... Pi ends up on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan named Orange Juice, a wounded zebra, and a fully-grown Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. ... A 16 year old boy, who comes from a relatively well off family in the heart of South India, ends up on a life boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with an adult Bengal tiger due to unseen circumstances. ...

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Pi is the only one to survive the wreck along with multiple animals, most notably a Bengal tiger, who he shares the lifeboat with the entire time. ... In Pi's second story the lifeboat doesn't include the Zebra, Hyena, Orangutan, or Tiger. ... Did Pi survive at sea with a Bengal tiger and other animals from his zoo? ... The animal story (imagination) shows Pi with an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg, a hyena, and a tiger named Richard Parker. ... However, we can see that the tiger hadn't eaten any of the animals that were killed. ...

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While at sea, the boat his family is on sinks, but Pi manages to board onto a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. He learns through his mishaps and struggles on the lifeboat to coexist with the tiger for the next 227 days. ... Pi still manages to have faith in his Gods after they had placed him on an extraordinary journey with a Bengal tiger in a life raft for 227 days. ... Its best to state that Pi has been on an incredible journey nobody will have the chance to relive as it is nearly impossible to live for 227 days at sea with a tiger living no further than twenty feet from you at all time....

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Ironically, his father would begin by showing the danger of a tiger, allowing his two young vegetarian sons watch a tiger massacre a goat, and warned them to remember this for the rest of their lives. This experience showed Pi how much he had to be careful and plan strategies wisely around Richard Parker, a wild Bengal Tiger on the boat. ... When he attributed human characteristics to the tiger, he also thought of himself as a beast. ... By eating like an animal, Pi maintained a zoomorphic relationship with the tiger. ... His life in India disposed him to animal behavior concepts such as anthr...

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Pi escapes and must live on a boat with a tiger, a zebra, an orangutan, and a hyena for 227 days until he finally reaches the shores of Mexico and is rescued. ... After the first week, it is just him and the tiger for about 220 days. ... From that, he gains the strength to survive 227 days alone on a lifeboat with a Bengal Tiger. ... With the influence of religion in his life, he was prepared for the hardest battle of his life: survival against the Pacific and a tiger. ...

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Finding himself as a castaway, Pi applies his understanding of faith and reason to an orangutan and tiger who accompanies him on a compact lifeboat. ... In the same way, Pi also looks at Richard Parker the royal Bengal tiger as a source of hope. ... In addition, considering the Bengal tiger as a "display of mighty art"" (151), Pi indirectly compares the Richard Parker to God, whose presence is "overwhelming, yet"" (151) gives Pi a sense of protection and hope. ...

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People will often see one of those children's movies that displays the awesome fun you would have if you met a tiger in the wild, brought it home to live in your home, and grow up with it as a part of your family. ... At least everyone at one time thought it would be so cute to have a lion or tiger cub as a pet. ... In the past decade, a Bengal tiger tore the arm off of a four year old boy, and a lion trapped a boy in his room and killed him. ... When a person can't stand to care for the tiger that was once so cute and fun, they often just drop them off at the zoo's gate where t...

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Deforestation, is a major problem facing Asia where most of this precious resources and has the highest destruction rate of the entire world. Among the worst exploited in Asia, are Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya. Nowadays More than half of Asia's remaining rainforest is under high threat...

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Similar fate is facing the tiger e.g. Bengal down to 1,500 in number, Siberian circa 250 left. In other situations species are inadvertently affected, for example, where habitats are destroyed or modified by people wishing to use the land for other purposes [For example , Korean Hyundai Company has just been given concession for deforestation and mineral exploration in key Siberian Tiger territory]. ... The loss of large mammals such as the mammoth and sabre toothed tiger has been linked to over hunting. ... As with the tiger, killing is driven by the high market price for products der...

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" The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. ... For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... The news was spread and people from Orissa, eastern Bengal and San-thal Parganas rushed to the tide country in search of free land. ...

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To quote Pi Patel, "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare," cites that when Pi is on the verge of giving up his inner monologue fuels his determination to live. The general argument made by Mr. Yann Martel in his work "Life of Pi" is that determination keeps you alive. M...

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God is presented to us through Pi's own religious beliefs and in his unbelievable journey with an adult Bengal tiger, and although "Life of Pi" does not emphasize on any particular religion, it urges us to believe in something because faith can bring meaning to life. ... The majority of the film is about Pi's experience with the tiger, and only a short section of the end is about the second, human version of the story. ...

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 Life of Pi For 227 days Piscine Molitor Patel was stranded at sea. Whether you want to believe that he survived by resulting to forms of cannibalism or he survived solely on prior knowledge and help by some unexplainable occurrences is the readers choice. Yann Martel wrote Life...

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Except for a narrow corridor running through the foothills of the Himalayas that connects the state with West Bengal, Assam is almost entirely isolated from India. ... The forests are inhabited by wild animals such as elephants, tigers, deer and wild pigs. ... Then there are the Aryans, with a long head, tall and well-built, having a fine, long and prominent nose and a fair complexion, who came to Assam from across Bihar and Bengal. ...

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Introduction With the end of the Cold War, several domestic conflicts have exploded throughout the world as well as a proliferation in the number of negotiations attempting to settle these conflicts. Many scholars investigating this new phenomena have concluded that there has been a transition fr...

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