Jean Mill ( née Sugden ), the person who was later a great influence of the development of the modern Bengal breed, submitted a term paper for her genetics class at UC Davis on the subject of crossbreeding cats in 1946.

* The British government agency, DEFRA, has proposed revising regulations under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 to remove licensing requirements for keeping of Bengal cats in the United Kingdom.

* The Cheetoh is an attempt to blend two existing domestic breeds of spotted cats with defined characteristics ( Bengal and Ocicat ), into a third breed.

Unlike other spotted cats such as the Ocicat or Bengal cat, the Egyptian Mau is a natural breed.

The popularity of two other spotted cats breeds, the Ocicat and the Bengal, overshadowed their development.

In some of those cases the Pixie-bob was cross-bred with other breeds of cats, such as Bengal and Maine Coon.

As well as Siberian and Bengal tigers, there are small cats, monkeys, Malayan tapirs, Barbary Lions, which have just given birth to two cubs, African Hunting Dogs and many more rare and endangered species, some of which are on the circular walk.

The Asiatic lion is one of the five major big cats found in India, the others being the Bengal tiger, the Indian leopard, the snow leopard and clouded leopard.

The Zoo maintains a collection of large cats including Tawny lions, white lions, a Sumatran tiger, a Bengal tiger, snow leopards, cheetahs, pumas, and servals.

indica grows wild almost everywhere on the Indian sub-continent, and special strains have been particularly cultivated for production of " ganja " and " hashish " particularly in West Bengal, Rajasthan and the Himalayas.

For example, the Rashtriya Janata Dal ( translated as National People's Party ) has a vote bank among the Yadav and Muslim population of Bihar and the All India Trinamool Congress does not have any significant support outside West Bengal.

Other periods of cultural rebirth have also been termed " renaissances ", such as the Bengal Renaissance, al-Nahda or the Harlem Renaissance.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the state of Gujarat have 200 each while other states such as Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal, Jharkhand have populations ranging from 60 to 30 people.

The accepted record weight, per the Guinness Book of World Records, for a wild tiger was for a Bengal tiger shot in 1967, though its weight may have been boosted by the fact that it had eaten a water buffalo the previous night.

The records show that Chinese Buddhists were actively involved in missionary activity in Tibet, they did not have the same level of imperial support as Indian Buddhists, with tantric lineages from Bihar and Bengal.

At a subsequent age, peoples speaking languages from two other language families — Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman — seem to have settled in Bengal.

The first, the Bengal famine of 1770, is estimated to have taken around 10 million lives — one-third of Bengal's population at the time.

The slightly higher northern plains have been farmed for centuries and saw a major change from the 13th century onwards during the Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries and the Ayutthaya Kingdom that succeeded it when rice-growing intensified with the introduction of floating rice, a much faster-growing strain of rice from Bengal.

Baba Bulleh Shah is another and the Bauls of Bengal have developed from these roots.

They have a son Rohan, who played for Bengal.

Atiśa is most commonly said to have been born in the year 980 in Vajrayoginī village in Bikrampur, the northeastern region of Bengal ( located in modern day Bangladesh ).

Male Bengal tigers have an average total length of including the tail, while females measure on average.

Bengal tigers have been known to take other predators, such as leopards, wolves, jackals, foxes, crocodiles, Asiatic black bears, sloth bears, and dholes as prey, although these predators are not typically a part of their diet.

Bengal tigers have been captive bred since 1880 and widely crossed with other tiger subspecies.

The four tigers involved in this project have been confirmed to be crossbred Siberian – Bengal tigers, which should neither be used for breeding nor being released into the Karoo, which for them is unsuitable habitat.

In a rural hospital in West Bengal, teenage mothers between 15 – 19 years old were more likely to have anemia, preterm delivery, and low birth weight than mothers between 20 – 24 years old.

Impalement is known to have been employed in several regions of southern Asia, such as in the Bengal region, where it was known as Shul ( Bengali: শ ূ ল ) and in ancient Tamilnadu, in present-day India, where it was referred to as Kazhuvetram.

Brahmin sects that have taken up the profession of medicine include the Vaidya ( or Baidya ) Brahmins of Bengal, with surnames Gupta, Dasgupta and Senguptas.

* Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis, known as the Indian Javan rhinoceros, once ranged from Bengal to Burma, but is presumed to have gone extinct before 1925.

This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the Company, in 1765, when the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar, or in 1772, when the Company established a capital in Calcutta, appointed its first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and became directly involved in governance.

A portion of northern or central Bengal might have been the home of Guptas at that time, but however not much evidence is available.

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

Punch was no different and contained illustrations such as Tenniel's " Justice " and " The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger ".

The show, Kabaddi in the early 1990s, however, failed to capture viewer attention despite fixtures such as West Bengal Police versus the Punjab.

* India has 20 protected areas with known or possible red panda populations in Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal such as Khangchendzonga National Park, Namdapha National Park and Singalila National Park, and a coordinated conservation policy for the red panda.

Big game, such as Bengal tigers, might be hunted from the back of an elephant.

Hindu scriptures such as the Mahabharata say that Bangladesh was divided among the Janapadas: Vanga ( southern Bengal ), Pundra ( northern Bengal ), and Suhma ( western Bengal ) according to their respective totems.

Hindu states continued to exist in the Southern and the Eastern parts of Bengal till the 1450s such as the Deva dynasty.

# Hybrids between different subspecies within a species ( such as between the Bengal tiger and Siberian tiger ) are known as intra-specific hybrids.

A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its distributaries such as Padma and Hooghly, Brahmaputra and its distributaries such as Jamuna, Meghna, Irrawaddy River, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri – flow into the Bay of Bengal.

A line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island in latitude 10 ° 48 ' N, longitude 92 ° 24 ' E and thence along the Southwest limit of the Burma Sea

The Eastern limit of the Bay of Bengal line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman Islands | Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island.

There were approximately 25 major famines spread through states such as Tamil Nadu in the south, and Bihar and Bengal in the east during the latter half of the 19th century.

This later school began around eastern India and Bengal, and developed theories resembling modern logic, such as Gottlob Frege's " distinction between sense and reference of proper names " and his " definition of number ," as well as the Navya-Nyaya theory of " restrictive conditions for universals " anticipating some of the developments in modern set theory.

The original meaning of the word still persists in some pyrotechnics terms, such as black match ( a black powder-impregnated fuse ) and Bengal match ( a firework akin to sparklers producing a relatively long-burning, coloured flame ).

A variety of wild animals are found in the forest areas, such as in the Sundarbans on the southwest coast, which is the home of the Royal Bengal Tiger.

Reappointed Governor-General in August 1904, he presided over the 1905 partition of Bengal, which roused such bitter opposition among the people of the province that it was later revoked ( 1911 ).

In the five years of his conquests and administration in Bengal, the young man had crowded together a succession of exploits which led Lord Macaulay, in what that historian termed his " flashy " essay on the subject, to compare him to Napoleon Bonaparte, declaring that " gave peace, security, prosperity and such liberty as the case allowed of to millions of Indians, who had for centuries been the prey of oppression, while Napoleon's career of conquest was inspired only by personal ambition, and the absolutism he established vanished with his fall.

After promising land reforms and elected to power in West Bengal in 1977, the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) ( CPI ( M )) kept their word and initiated gradual land reforms, such as Operation Barga.