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The tigers of Banlgadesh swim to hunt
Photo by Abhjit Sinha on Unsplash
Most tigers avoid water when they can. The Bengal tigers of Bangladesh's Sundarbans never got that memo (Bangladesh was the Globle answer for July 12). In the world's largest mangrove forest, a sprawling maze of tidal channels and muddy islands at the mouth of the Bay of Bengal, tigers routinely swim across rivers more than a kilometre wide, paddling between islands in search of spotted deer, their favourite prey. It is the only mangrove ecosystem on Earth where tigers live at all.
Life in the Sundarbans has shaped these cats into something distinct. They navigate tides that redraw the landscape twice a day, hunt on slick mudflats, and tolerate brackish water that would make most land mammals miserable. The forest is so central to national identity that the Royal Bengal tiger is the official animal of Bangladesh, appearing on everything from banknotes to cricket jerseys.
The news from the swamp is cautiously good. The most recent government census, conducted with more than 1,200 camera traps between 2023 and 2024, counted 125 tigers in the Bangladeshi portion of the forest, up from 114 in 2018 and 106 in 2015. Surveyors also photographed 21 cubs, a fourfold jump from previous counts. Researchers identify individuals by their stripes, which are as unique as human fingerprints.
Challenges remain, from poaching to rising sea levels nibbling at the forest's edges. But for now, the planet's only amphibious-adjacent tigers are quietly, steadily multiplying.
Learn more: One Earth
Trivia
What special device is worn by honey collectors in Bangladesh's Sundarbans to ward off tiger attacks?
Answers to last week's games
Monday, July 6 to Sunday, July 12.
Globle
Jul 6 Kuwait
Jul 7 Iran
Jul 8 Liechtenstein
Jul 9 Myanmar
Jul 10 Saint Lucia
Jul 11 Maldives
Jul 12 Bangladesh
Jul 13 Play now!
Globle: Capitals
Jul 6 Chisinau
Jul 7 Paramaribo
Jul 8 Santiago
Jul 9 Niamey
Jul 10 Bucharest
Jul 11 N'Djamena
Jul 12 Brazzaville
Jul 13 Play now!
Chronogram
#1192 Vladimir Nabokov
#1193 Abraham Lincoln
#1194 Marshall McLuhan
#1195 William Faulkner
#1196 Vladimir Lenin
#1197 Max Planck
#1198 Charles Lindbergh
#1199 Play now!
Fictogram
#960 Luffy
#961 Princess Peach
#962 Dana Franklin
#963 Steve Rogers
#964 Lady Macbeth
#965 Phoebe Buffay
#966 Obi-Wan Kenobi
#967 Play now!
Metazooa
#1071 turkey vulture
#1072 hawk
#1073 caribou
#1074 chimpanzee
#1075 fruit bat
#1076 hammerhead shark
#1077 puma
#1078 Play now!
Metaflora
#1010 yam
#1011 spelt
#1012 coriander
#1013 venus flytrap
#1014 alfalfa
#1015 anise
#1016 citron
#1017 Play now!
Linxicon
The following are the shortest paths from last week:
#875 prove → showing → design → designer
#876 domestic → personal → opinion → agree
#877 fishing → fisherman → merchant → seller → offer
#878 conduct → act → acted → did → would
#879 process → timing → sudden → surprising
#880 law → violent → intense
#881 regional → area → spot → nod
#882 Play now!
Elemingle
#531 Einsteinium
#532 Hassium
#533 Chromium
#534 Iron
#535 Manganese
#536 Silicon
#537 Nobelium
#538 Play now!
Stocktangle
#214 CLARIVATE PLC (CLVT)
#215 Tesla Inc (TSLA)
#216 Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD)
#217 Broadcom Inc (AVGO)
#218 Lam Research Corp (LRCX)
#219 Meta Platforms Inc. (META)
#220 Meta Platforms Inc. (META)
#221 Play now!
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