MIGUEL FIGUEROA2ND HOUR

BENGAL TIGER POWERPOINT4-14-2011

Bengal tigers

habitat Bengal tigers dwell in tropical jungles,

brush, marsh lands, and tall grasslands in fragmented areas of Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Burma

What Bengal tigers eat(diet)

Bengal tigers hunt any pray out there with a big amount of meat. such as pigs, deer, antelopes, and buffalo because they mostly all belong to the carnivore side they are massive meat eaters

Since tigers hunt mostly at dusk and dawn their stripes help them hide in the shadows of tall grasses. They creep and crawl through the bushes leaves and tress, then jump out suddenly to attack because they are not able to chase prey a long distance.

A average tiger can consume as much as 88 lb of meat in one feeding thats enough for their whole days worth of food

Whats hurting the Bengal tiger?

What's hurting the Bengal tiger mainly is that a lot of people are cutting down forest that’s where Bengal tigers rest,

Also a lot of people are hunting deer antelope and buffalo all those animals that humans are killing is putting tigers in danger because they then will start to starve and that’s why people are getting attacked because tigers cant help the hunger that’s killing them,

Research question 1-5 1.how does having this organism affect the environment?

*no animals would be getting hunted or people wouldn’t be getting attacked

2.how does this organism become extinct or endangered?*to much people are hunting tem down and taking down forests where they live.

3.whats being done to protect this organism?*they are starting to send more and more tigers to zoos, and are building forests all over again,

4. what needs to be done to increase the numbers of this organism? *They need to stop taking down so much forests and stop thinking negative about tigers because they aren't as dangerous as they seem.

5.how will learning about this organism help? *knowing more about tigers will be better because people will know how to protect them more and protect them selves from getting killed.