Siberian tiger crosses a highway in Yanbian ethnic Korean autonomous city in N. China

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Russian Siberian tigers really love to get into Chinese farms and eat live stock.

 

[Bengal71]

You obviously have very little idea about wildlife, judging from your ill informed post. Bengal tigers are found abundantly all over North East India, and we seem to be doing a better job in conserving them than your namesake Bangladesh going by the current stats. Even school children are aware of this fact but you are blinded by your regional chauvinism.

You guys are top of the world in everything, there is no doubt about that. Whole world knows that.

Tigers are abundant in India, but the Bengal tigers are called Bengal tigers because they are found in Bengal. What's the name of those variants of tigers in NE?

What regional chauvinism? What has name and sub specie of a tiger got to do with chauvinism?

 

[namefield_empty]

Tigers are abundant in India, but the Bengal tigers are called Bengal tigers because they are found in Bengal. What's the name of those variants of tigers in NE?

You do know that Bengal Tigers won't be called Assam Tigers or Arunachal Tigers just because they are found in the North East far from your Bengal. Taxonomy takes care of that, and yours was a pretty stupid statement to make.

https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2...-escaping-floods-found-relaxing-on-a-bed.html

What regional chauvinism? What has name and sub specie of a tiger got to do with chauvinism?

Because you seem to be suggesting that your Bengal tigers are found only in your Bangladesh/West Bengal, and anything elsewhere must be some different species. Tigers don't recognise inter state and inter country boundaries, and it's time you broaden your horizons too.

 

[Bengal71]

You do know that Bengal Tigers won't be called Assam Tigers or Arunachal Tigers just because they are found in the North East far from your Bengal. Taxonomy takes care of that, and yours was a pretty stupid statement to make.

https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2...-escaping-floods-found-relaxing-on-a-bed.html

Because you seem to be suggesting that your Bengal tigers are found only in your Bangladesh/West Bengal, and anything elsewhere must be some different species. Tigers don't recognise inter state and inter country boundaries, and it's time you broaden your horizons too.

I am suggesting the same because almost identical tigers are called by different names. Sumatran tigers are almost identical to Bengal tigers, South China tigers look the same as Bengal tigers yet they are called South China tigers. Whatever subtle differences are present are area of the experts. Bengal tigers are found in Bengal and NOT all of Bengal, they are found in the mangrove forest of Sundabarns only and this is the only variety that is known as Bengal tiger. They have a unique habitat and their food habit, their hunting fields etc are relevant to the habitat. How can the Assam tiger or sumatran tiger or any other tiger be identical to the Bengal tigers when they live in totally different environment. They only look similiar.

 

[namefield_empty]

Bengal tigers are found in Bengal and NOT all of Bengal, they are found in the mangrove forest of Sundabarns only and this is the only variety that is known as Bengal tiger. They have a unique habitat and their food habit, their hunting fields etc are relevant to the habitat.

You are only embarrassing yourself by these uninformed conjectures.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/bengal-tiger

The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India with smaller populations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar. It is the most numerous of all tiger subspecies with more than 2,500 left in the wild. The creation of India’s tiger reserves in the 1970s helped to stabilize numbers,....

they are found in the mangrove forest of Sundabarns only

It amazes me to see that a Bangladeshi doesn't have the correct idea about Bengal tigers. While it is absolutely true that Bengal tigers are the only tiger species that also lives in mangrove forests, mangroves are by no means their only habitat.

 

[Bengal71]

You are only embarrassing yourself by these uninformed conjectures.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/bengal-tiger

The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India with smaller populations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar. It is the most numerous of all tiger subspecies with more than 2,500 left in the wild. The creation of India’s tiger reserves in the 1970s helped to stabilize numbers,....

It amazes me to see that a Bangladeshi doesn't have the correct idea about Bengal tigers. While it is absolutely true that Bengal tigers are the only tiger species that also lives in mangrove forests, mangroves are by no means their only habitat.

Ok. Why is it called Bengal tiger then? Why not Indian tiger since it's found all over the Indian subcontinent?

 

[namefield_empty]

Ok. Why is it called Bengal tiger then? Why not Indian tiger since it's found all over the Indian subcontinent?

Because the species is that of Bengal tiger!! Kind of like how you are still a Bengali even after emigrating to Australia.

However, that doesn't necessarily mean that all tiger species in India are Bengal tigers, but the ones in NE India are almost all Royal Bengal tigers.

 

[Bengal71]

Because the species is that of Bengal tiger!! Kind of like how you are still a Bengali even after emigrating to Australia.

However, that doesn't necessarily mean that all tiger species in India are Bengal tigers, but the ones in NE India are almost all Royal Bengal tigers.

Why would a species be named after a particular land only when it's distribution spreads all across Indian subcontinent, Burma and even China?

 

[namefield_empty]

Why would a species be named after a particular land only when it's distribution spreads all across Indian subcontinent, Burma and even China?

Felis tigris was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the tiger.[17] It was subordinated to the genus Panthera by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1929. Bengal is the traditional type locality of the species and the nominate subspecies Panthera tigris tigris....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_tiger

Now i know that you are trying to appropriate the name of the species to gain exclusive control, but that will never be the case as your country has done precious little for tiger conservation over the years, leaving India with the responsibility to take up the mantle.

However, couple of other species of wildlife in India like the one-horned rhinoceros of Assam and the Asiatic lions of Gir(Gujrat) are truly restricted to their original habitats with no outside population elsewhere.

 

[Bengal71]

Felis tigris was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the tiger.[17] It was subordinated to the genus Panthera by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1929. Bengal is the traditional type locality of the species and the nominate subspecies Panthera tigris tigris....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_tiger

Now i know that you are trying to appropriate the name of the species to gain exclusive control, but that will never be the case as your country has done precious little for tiger conservation over the years, leaving India with the responsibility to take up the mantle.

However, couple of other species of wildlife in India like the one-horned rhinoceros of Assam and the Asiatic lions of Gir(Gujrat) are truly restricted to their original habitats with no outside population elsewhere.

I am not trying to gain "exclusive control", I have to be a special type of weirdo to do same, you also have to be a special type of weirdo to suggest the same. I am asking the question why would anybody name a specie after a certain land when far greater population of the same specie is found outside of the land.

 

[namefield_empty]

I am asking the question why would anybody name a specie after a certain land when far greater population of the same specie is found outside of the land.

The answer is in the wiki link i shared in my previous post, kindly go through it to learn more about type(Biology).

 

[Bengal71]

The answer is in the wiki link i shared in my previous post, kindly go through it to learn more about type(Biology).

There is no answer apart from the following and it's not an answer:

Felis tigris was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the tiger.[17] It was subordinated to the genus Panthera by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1929. Bengal is the traditional type locality of the species and the nominate subspecies Panthera tigris tigris.[18]

 

[namefield_empty]

There is no answer apart from the following and it's not an answer:

Felis tigris was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the tiger.[17] It was subordinated to the genus Panthera by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1929. Bengal is the traditional type locality of the species and the nominate subspecies Panthera tigris tigris.[18]

learn more about type(Biology).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_(biology)

 

[Bengal71]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_(biology)

Type definition? I am asking why the type was named after Bengal when majority of the population is found elsewhere?

 

[namefield_empty]

Type definition? I am asking why the type was named after Bengal when majority of the population is found elsewhere?

Because Bengal happened to be the place where the type was attached to the scientific name of this species, could well have been other regions as they are abundant all over the subcontinent.