A close up of the head and face of a male Royal Bengal Tiger taken in the forests of Ranthambhore National Park in Rajasthan India in 2023. The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate Tiger subspecies.It ranks among the biggest wild cats alive today. It is considered to belong to the world's charismatic megafauna.The tiger is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene,for about 12,000 to 16,500 years. Today,it is threatened by poaching,loss and fragmentation of habitat,and was estimated at comprising fewer than 2,500 wild individuals by 2011
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