page_title: Bengal tiger
section_title: In arts
hierarchical_section_title: Bengal tiger / In culture / In arts
caption_attribution_description: English: The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger. Punch, 33 (22 August 1857): 76-77.
context_page_description: The Bengal tiger is a tiger from a specific population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to the Indian subcontinent. It is threatened by poaching, loss, and fragmentation of habitat, and was estimated at comprising fewer than 2,500 individuals by 2011. None of the Tiger Conservation Landscapes within its range is considered large enough to support an effective population of more than 250 adult individuals. India's tiger population was estimated at 1,706–1,909 individuals in 2010. By 2018, the population had increased to an estimated 2,603–3,346 individuals. Around 300–500 tigers are estimated in Bangladesh, 220–274 tigers in Nepal and 103 tigers in Bhutan.
  The tiger is estimated to be present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene, for about 12,000 to 16,500 years.
  The Bengal tiger ranks among the biggest wild cats alive today. It is considered to belong to the world's charismatic megafauna.
  It is the national animal of both India and Bangladesh. It used to be called Royal Bengal tiger.
context_section_description: The main antagonist of The Jungle Book, Shere Khan, is a Bengal tiger.
  The Man-Eaters of Kumaon is based on man-eating tigers and leopards in Kumaon Division.
  The film Tiger of Bengal was produced in 1959.
  In the fantasy adventure novel Life of Pi and in its 2012 film adaptation, a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker is the lead character.
  The Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is based on a real story of a tiger that escaped from Baghdad Zoo in 2003 and haunts the streets of Baghdad seeking the meaning of life.
  The 2007 film Maneater is based on Jack Warner's novel Shikar.
  The Lost Land of the Tiger is a documentary by the BBC on tigers in Bhutan.
  Bagh Bahadur (Bengali: বাঘ বাহাদুর, translation: The Tiger Dancer) is a 1989 Bengali drama film, directed and written by Buddhadeb Dasgupta, about a man who paints himself as a tiger and dances in a village in Bengal.
  The 2014 Indian film Roar – Tigers of the Sundarbans is about a white Bengal tigress in the Sundarbans.
caption: The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger, Punch cartoon from 1857
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