The Bengal tiger generally lives in Mangrove forests by themselves. The males like to have about twenty square miles as their territory, and the females prefer seventeen square miles. The tigers breed in spring and remain together for twenty to eighty days before the male leaves the female with the cubs. Females do all of the raising of the cubs, including hunting for food for them.

Bengal tigers are nocturnal which means they hunt at night. Because the tiger is not a particularly fast animal, they must stalk their prey, rather than outrun it. Tigers do not waste any food, and if they don't eat it all at once, they bury the meat under leaves to come back and eat later. The tiger mainly hunts buffalo, ox, deer, monkey, wild boar, and sometimes even porcupines.

All white tigers are Bengals. Bengal tigers are the only species of tiger to have the double recessive gene that gives offspring the white coloring. All other types of Bengals have the rusty orange coloring, black stripes (no two tigers have the same pattern of stripes), with an off-white belly, and small white spots on the back of their ears.

Males usually weigh about 419 to 569 pounds, and they are 8 feet, 8 inches to ten feet, two inches. Females weigh about 221 to 353 pounds, and are seven feet, eleven inches. Bengals tend to live about fifteen years.