Bengal Tiger
Skeletal anatomy · Panthera tigris tigris
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The Bengal Tiger — India's national animal and most iconic species. From a critical low of fewer than 2,000 in 1973, Project Tiger has brought numbers back to over 4,500. A story of what conservation can achieve when a nation decides to act.
India's apex predator. Each tiger's stripe pattern is as unique as a human fingerprint — the basis of India's entire camera-trap census.
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