Tiger Pictures
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Play-Fighting Bengal Tigers
Born in captivity, these two Bengal tiger youngsters will never be fit for release into the wild. Tiger cubs, like all young animals, enjoy play-fighting.
Big Cats Initiative
National Geographic is working to avert the extinction of lions, tigers, and other big cats with the Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program that supports innovative projects. Learn how you can help save these animals.
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Siberian Tiger Grooming
Many conservation programs have been established to save the critically endangered Siberian tiger, whose numbers have dwindled to mere hundreds in the wild.
Big Cats Initiative
National Geographic is working to avert the extinction of lions, tigers, and other big cats with the Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program that supports innovative projects. Learn how you can help save these animals.
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Male Bengal Tiger
Unlike lions, tigers live solitary lives and mark their territories to keep others away.
Big Cats Initiative
National Geographic is working to avert the extinction of lions, tigers, and other big cats with the Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program that supports innovative projects. Learn how you can help save these animals.
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Bengal Tiger
Since tigers hunt mostly at dusk and dawn their stripes help them hide in the shadows of tall grasses.
Big Cats Initiative
National Geographic is working to avert the extinction of lions, tigers, and other big cats with the Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program that supports innovative projects. Learn how you can help save these animals.
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Female Bengal Tiger
Tigers are primarily nocturnal hunters and spend the days lounging in the grass or well camouflaged in the forest.
Big Cats Initiative
National Geographic is working to avert the extinction of lions, tigers, and other big cats with the Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program that supports innovative projects. Learn how you can help save these animals.
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Bengal Tiger
Tigers hunt by creeping stealthily and lying in wait. When prey is close enough, they attack with a fatal pounce.
Big Cats Initiative
National Geographic is working to avert the extinction of lions, tigers, and other big cats with the Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program that supports innovative projects. Learn how you can help save these animals.
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Bengal Tiger With Prey
A Bengal tiger carries her kill, a chital fawn, home to her cubs.
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Bengal Tiger and Cubs
A Bengal tiger takes her cubs to feed on a sambar deer she killed overnight. At three to four months the cubs begin to eat meat but are still too young to hunt, a skill they will learn at 12 to 16 months. -
Bengal Tiger in Water
Triggering a remote camera with her movements, a Bengal tiger takes a self-portrait while cooling off in a pool. -
Snarling Tiger
In the last century, tiger numbers fell from 100,000 to 3,200 and they now live in only seven percent of their historical range. If tigers are to survive in the wild, they need massive human intervention. -
Bengal Tiger at Night
Hunting can be dangerous even for such a powerful predator as a tiger. A remotely operated camera captured this tiger that had sustained injuries after feeding on a porcupine.
