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Tiger!" He is absent from all the Disney adaptions of The Jungle Book except the 1994 live action remake, in which he is a human who works for Boone and 1998's The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, in which he is portrayed as a spotted hyena, a species only native to Africa in real life. Mang (मङग منگ Maṅg, "go"; bat) – a bat.
The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the largest wild cats alive today. It is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene for about 12,000 to 16,500 years.
Shere Khan (/ ˈ ʃ ɪər ˈ k ɑː n /) is a fictional Bengal tiger in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and its adaptations. He is often portrayed as the main antagonist, itself an exaggeration of his role in the original stories, in which he only appears a third of the time. [1]
The Tiger of Mundachipallam was a male Bengal tiger, which in the 1950s killed seven people in the vicinity of the village of Pennagram, four miles (6 km) from the Hogenakkal Falls in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu. Unlike the Segur man-eater, the Mundachipallam tiger had no known infirmities preventing him from hunting his natural prey.
Tiger attacks in the Sundarbans, in India and Bangladesh are estimated to kill from 0-50 (mean of 22.7 between 1947 and 1983) people per year. [1] The Sundarbans is home to over 100 [2] Bengal tigers, [3] one of the largest single populations of tigers in one area. Before modern times, Sundarbans tigers were said to "regularly kill fifty or ...
The plush Bengal tiger and best friend of the comic's protagonist, Calvin, Hobbes is perceived by Calvin as being a live tiger, but by every other character as a stuffed toy. Hobbes, whose name is an allusion to the English political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes , often tries to be the voice of reason for Calvin during their numerous adventures.
Bengal Tiger or Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a stage production; Scuttlers, members of neighbourhood-based youth gangs of late-Victorian England; Canna 'Bengal Tiger', a cultivar of the canna plant; Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer, nicknamed "Bengal Tiger" Tiger II, a German WW2 heavy tank nicknamed Königstiger (Bengal tiger)
The man-eater of Segur, a young man-eating male Bengal tiger who killed 5 people in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state in South India.. Tigers are recorded to have killed more people than any other big cat, and have been responsible for more human deaths through direct attack than any other wild mammal. [1]