ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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There is a little mystery about Bengal tigers in Sundarban. The same for Indochinese tigers once lived in the Mekong Delta and any tiger subspecies once lived near the coastal area, mangrove swamp, and swamp near the sea. Today will be the Sundarban tiger. We all know that salty is one of the most important substance for life to survive, but too much salt is harmful. American food is extremely salty. Apparently, I also heard many famous restaurants in Europe are salty too. Car is require everywhere to go somewhere. That is why many Americans are fat when they turn mid 20s. Eating salty food and less active while metabolism is slower. How about Sundarban tiger? How do they survive in mangrove swamp where they are living with salt water? I don’t know about today, but Sundarban tigers were often known as infamous man-eating tigers until the 2010.

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In the 1970s to 1980s, Hendrichs, Chowdbury, and Sanyal believed tiger attacking on human in Sundarban is due to salinity of the water in their habitat. Rishi said in posts #1,420 and #1,424 that many species that went extinct in Sundarban were mostly adapted to freshwater. I don’t know if animals like pink headed duck, leopard, clouded leopard, gaur, Sumatran rhino, javan rhino, and elephant (not sure clouded leopard, leopard, and elephant actually lived in Sundarban, but I remember hearing the last leopard in Bangladesh). Hunting, poaching, and overuse of freshwater/river are most likely the reason. Salinity of the water will be higher in Sundarban due to global warming and rising water use on Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers.

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In the mid 1980s, government made freshwater water tanks in Sundarban. It believed tiger loves those water tanks. However, it is only limited places that has the freshwater tank in Sundarban. How do tigers survive in Sundarban? Sundarban tigers are probably getting freshwater during the rainy season and thunderstorm. It is still limited unlike tigers in other places of Asia. Sundarban tigers living in southern Sundarban and between islands. Where are they getting water source besides drinking saltwater in sea? Core area of tiger reserve in Sundarban seems to have saltwater from Rishi's photos. Their lifespan is also shorter than tigers in other Asia?

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