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Yawning Tiger, Siberia, Russia, 2000
Photo: Yawning tiger
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The millions of acres of virgin forest in eastern Russia are home to an extraordinary variety of wildlife, including about 350 endangered Amur tigers, such as this adult yawning in a Siberian field.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Black Dragon River: On the Edge of Empires," February 2000, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Reza

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