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Bengal Tiger, India, 1995
Photo: Bengal tiger
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A perfectly posed young Bengal tiger rests in a clearing in India's Bandhavgarh National Park. This individual is likely the offspring of Sita, a tigress famed in the park for her hunting prowess and prized for her prolific breeding.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Sita: Life of a Wild Tigress," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Michael Nichols

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