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The Sundarban Tiger
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Within the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans, the number of tigers here rose from 106 to 114 from 2015 to 2018, according to a census: https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/b...rs-1746550
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 (05-30-2019, 11:44 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Within the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans, the number of tigers here rose from 106 to 114 from 2015 to 2018, according to a census: https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/b...rs-1746550 Yes, they finally are getting strict with the poaching, pot-hunting & pirates. Tiger habitable area on Bangladeshi Sundarbans are not only twice as large in size (almost 6000km² against 3000km²), but also of much more solid land area. Indian side many small islands, with huge rivers in between. Compared to Indian maximum of 120-130, Bangladesh's carrying capacity could be as high as 200 tigers.
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©Niladri Kundu  *This image is copyright of its original author When a tiger walks in the Sunderbans, it crosses channels, creeks. We saw this dominant male for around 1 hour -before we had seen it, the tiger had already started moving. So this shows that tigers go for long walks in the forests within its territory. But those long walks are also punctuated with sit-ins under the shade or in water before resuming the walk as we see here. "King Scanning the surroundings"Suddhasattwa Das, Sanjay Bhattacharyya,Nityananda Choukidar, Snehangshu Banerjee, Arpan Sarkar  *This image is copyright of its original author "Cat Walk from Sundarbans" Suddhasattwa Das. Niladri Kundu, Nityananda Choukidar, Sanjay Bhattacharyya, Arpan Sarkar and Snehangshu Banerjee  *This image is copyright of its original author
As mentioned here (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-on-the-...1#pid83221), there's a study on tigers, including the Sundarban tiger, that demonstrates that the Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans and those in the Himalayan region (northern India, Nepal and Bhutan) are not as closely related as Caspian and Siberian tigers are to each other. The closest relatives of the Sundarban tiger are Southern Indian tigers and a number of Central Indian tigers, with Northern Indian tigers being genetically different to them in a significant manner.
Singh et al.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article...8846.g002/ *This image is copyright of its original author Median-joining network created from four mtDNA genes (cytb, ND2, ND5 and ND6) (in total, 2600 bp) depicting genetic relationship between all haplotypes found in tigers. (a) haplotypes found in Sundarbans tigers (in black) and all other six tiger subspecies (in yellow and green color, from Luo et al. 2004) [2], (b) all haplotypes found in Bengal tiger populations from this study and Mondol et al. [22]. Pink: North India, Yellow: Central India, Blue: South India, and Green: Sundarbans. The sizes of the circles are proportional to the haplotype frequencies. Credit, Soumyajit Nandy: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:..._Tiger.jpg *This image is copyright of its original author
(06-24-2019, 10:55 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: As mentioned here (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-on-the-...1#pid83221), there's a study on tigers, including the Sundarban tiger, that demonstrates that the genetic difference between Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans and those in the Himalayan region (northern India, Nepal and Bhutan) are not as closely related as Caspian and Siberian tigers are to each other. The closest relatives of the Sundarban tiger are Southern Indian tigers and a number of Central Indian tigers, with Northern Indian tigers being genetically different to them in a significant manner. That's intriguing, because Sunderban tigers look most dissimilar to the so south-central Indian tigers though. On the other hand a north/northeastern tiger could easily be mistaken for a Sundarban tiger but for the habitat in the background giving it away. (06-25-2019, 06:05 AM)Rishi Wrote:(06-24-2019, 10:55 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: As mentioned here (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-on-the-...1#pid83221), there's a study on tigers, including the Sundarban tiger, that demonstrates that the genetic difference between Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans and those in the Himalayan region (northern India, Nepal and Bhutan) are not as closely related as Caspian and Siberian tigers are to each other. The closest relatives of the Sundarban tiger are Southern Indian tigers and a number of Central Indian tigers, with Northern Indian tigers being genetically different to them in a significant manner. That Sundarban tigers should look dissimilar to South-Central Indian tigers, but more similar to the less closely related Himalayan tigers, reminds me of the physical similarities and differences between Amur tigers, the closely related Caspian tigers, and the distinctly related Bengal tigers. Caspian tigers were said to be intermediate between Bengal and Siberian tigers (https://books.google.com/books?id=t2EZCS...rs&f=false). On one hand, the summer coats of Caspian tigers were similar in density and length of hair to those of Indian tigers, and the general shade was similar. On the other hand, the winter coats was longer and denser than those of Bengal tigers (Pages 137–144: https://books.google.com/books?id=UxWZ-O...er&f=false, https://archive.org/stream/mammalsofsov2...7/mode/2up), and generally lighter (https://books.google.com/books?id=esV0hc...an&f=false), a bit like Amur tigers. Heptner and Sludskiy, Pages 137–144: *This image is copyright of its original author *This image is copyright of its original author *This image is copyright of its original author
Soumyajit Nandy
The dominant male of the tourism zone of Sundarban photographed in December 2015 when he was around 6-7 years old. He is also known by the name Big Boss. His territory was pretty huge as it would cover almost all of the 360+ sqkm tourism zone named Sajnekhali Wildlife Sanctuary. But now he seems to have lost quite a bit of his area to a new male, who most likely is son itself  *This image is copyright of its original author
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(05-30-2019, 12:22 PM)Rishi Wrote:(05-30-2019, 11:44 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Within the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans, the number of tigers here rose from 106 to 114 from 2015 to 2018, according to a census: https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/b...rs-1746550 Ironically, I came across news articles dated to March which warned that tigers could disappear in the Sundarbans, at least in the Bangladeshi sector, by 2070, if their habitat continues to be threatened by climate change and rising levels of seawater (https://www.thedailystar.net/environment...dy-1702006), bearing in mind that up to 70% of the Sundarbans' mangrove ecosystem in less than 1 m (3.28 ft) above sea level (https://www.business-standard.com/articl...120_1.html), besides the threat to tigers from poaching, encroachment by humans (leading to a loss in habitat), reduction in breeding (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/trav...048564.cms), a loss of prey (at least partly due to poaching), and an outbreak of a disease (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/21/world...index.html).
Sundarban tigresses.
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Camera trap images from last India-Bangladesh joint tiger census in the Sundarbans.
Report too large to attach. Named: Status of Tigers in Sundarban Landscape Bangladesh & India  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Tiger with clay pot in its mouth,
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Apparently, it’s not all rosy on the Bangladeshi side of the Sunderbans because there has been a clear targeting of male tigers. So much so, that now the gender ratio is as skewed as 1:10. That is alarming, considering this is the only tiger habitat in the country.
https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/royal-bengal-tiger-in-sundarbans-male-tigers-at-greater-risk-1778470 
Subhajyoti Gadai Pal
 *This image is copyright of its original author Susmita Datta Tiger roaming around on the muddy surface of Sundarban... #ShareYourSafari Catagory : Habitat.  *This image is copyright of its original author
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