Category:Bengal tiger

Articles related to the Bengal tiger and its depictions, a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies. It ranks among the largest of the wild cats. It is distributed from India, southern Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan to Southwestern China. Its historical range extended to the Indus River valley until the early 19th century, and it is thought to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene, about 12,000 to 16,500 years ago. It is threatened by poaching, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation.