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Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low. There may be as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild. The largest of all the Asian big cats may be on top of the food chain and one of the most culturally important and best-loved animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction. Tigers are forced to compete for space with dense human populations, face unrelenting pressure from poaching, retaliatory killings and habitat loss across their range.
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Went out to Western Springs and the Zoo with the family, and snapped a few pics. This is one of the tiger cubs thinking about taking a drink.
50mm, ƒ/2, 1/80th sec, ISO 125 on my α200.
The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur, Altaic, Korean, North Chinese or Ussuri tiger, is a subspecies of tiger which once ranged throughout Western Asia, Central Asia and eastern Russia, and as far east as Alaska during prehistoric times, though it is now completely confined to the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai in far eastern Siberia, where it is now protected. It is the biggest of the eight recent tiger subspecies and the largest living felid, attaining 360 kg (790 lb) in an exceptional specimen. Genetic research in 2009 revealed that the current Siberian tiger population is almost identical to the Caspian tiger, a now extinct western population once thought to have been a distinct subspecies.
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Sumatran Tigers can be found at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, where there are great areas to photograph these cats.
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a close crop of the tigers.. I kinda like it..I know no ears..but cute , taken with my olympus e420 dslr and the 70-300 mm lens. I erased the background and then copied and pasted into a new window. to get the crop
The first heat in the daily tiger run. Note the other competitors in the background resting up for their turns.
Amur tigers, Philadelphia Zoo
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Amur Tiger at the Oregon Zoo
photo by Gary Meyers photography .
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Another of this beautiful young lass.
Canon EOS 1D Mk111, Sigma APO 120-300mm f/2.8 EX + Sigma 1.4x EX Converter @ 400 ISO.
Siddik Ali with his photograph of his early age, when he was fisherman in Sundarbans. Back in 2000 he was attacked by tiger. His left ear was totally mutilated, and his jaw was also heavily injured by that tiger attack. He says "Back in those days I was the bread winner of my family but now I feel like a burden to my family, as I lost my ability to work"
In coastal areas near Sundarbans people survive by fighting with nature, with tigers and with robbers in the forest, as many of them no other way of income, other than going to Sundarbans for work