State Emblem of India ( Lion Capital of Ashoka) The flag is based on the Swaraj flag designed by Pingali Venkayya. In the center is a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the Ashoka Chakra. List of National and Official Symbols of India SymbolĪ horizontal rectangular tricolour with equally sized deep saffron at the top, white in the middle and India green at the bottom.
They have a maximum skull length of about 8 to 12 inches long. They stand about 2 feet (75 cm) tall at the shoulder. They weigh around 250 to 450 pounds (110 to 200 kg). Pictures of this cat documented that it was indeed a very large tiger.įemale Bengal Tigers measure around 5 to 6 feet in length ( without their tail), and 7 to 9, with their tail. Jim Corbett also once shot a tiger called the Bachelor of Powalgarh, with a total length of 3.23m, thought to be “as big as a Shetland pony” by the famous hunter Fred Anderson. The largest Bengal ever recorded was shot in Northern India in 1967, 3.35 mt in total length, and weighed 388 kg, (857 lbs), while two others, killed in Nepal in 1942, and in India in 1910, weighed 320 kg and 317 kg, respectively. However, the Tigers found in the northern Indian subcontinent are notably larger, with many instances of tigers over 300 kg and up to 13 feet in length (head to tail). An average male Bengal Tiger living in southern and central India weighs in at about 500 pounds (230 kg), stands 3 feet tall, and stretches about 10 feet (2.9 m) in length (head to tail). They have a maximum skull length of around 10 to 15 inches (250 to 380 mm). A Bengal Tiger normally stands at around 3 feet (0.97 m) at the shoulder. Their weight is around 400 to 660 pounds ( 180 to 300 kilograms). Male Bengal Tigers measure around 6 to 9 feet in length ( without their tail), and 9 to 12 feet with their tail. So far, 19 tiger reserves have been established in the country under this project, covering over 29, 716 sq. Since then, the tiger population has shown a gradual increase and the census of 1989 puts the tiger population of the country at 4,334. This project aims to maintain a viable population of tigers in India for scientific, economic, aesthetic, cultural, and ecological values. To check the dwindling population of tigers in India, which came down to just 1,827 in 1972, a massive conservation program was initiated in April 1973, known as the ‘Project Tiger’. Tigers are fast runners, excellent swimmers and their eyesight is strong. It is a common belief that a tiger does not harm anyone who has offered prayers to him. The man-eaters are the most dreaded of all wild beasts. They feed on fish, cattle, and sometimes human beings. The Sunderbans are their main habitat for their thick forests of Sunder trees.
Tough, muscular, majestic tigers roam about the Sunderbans of Bengal “ burning brightly in the darkness of the night.” The natives of the forest worship the tiger as the deity that gives them honey and wax. They are the crowning glory and the light of Indian wildlife. Indian tigers are famous all over the world and one of the main attractions for lovers of wildlife.
The combination of grace, strength, power has earned the tiger great respect and high esteem. The magnificent Tiger Panthera tigris (Linnaeus), the Indian national animal, is a rich-colored well-striped animal with a short coat. It is the national animal of both Bangladesh and India. Its fur is orange-brown with black stripes, although there is a mutation that sometimes produces white tigers. It is the most common tiger subspecies, and lives in a variety of habitats, including grasslands, subtropical and tropical rainforests, scrub forests, wet and dry deciduous forests, and mangroves. The Tiger – Lord of the Indian Jungles, is the National Animal of India. The tiger is the symbol of India’s wealth of wildlife. The Royal Bengal Tiger is a subspecies of tigers primarily found in Bangladesh and India and also in Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, and southern Tibet.
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