(^66) Vol. 6 Issue 12

TIGER

MUM’S

Starvation, predation and infanticide:

the odds are stacked against young

tigers. Stephen Mills discovers

the strategies a mother uses

to help her cubs make

it to adulthood

A pair of eight-week-old

cubs use mother as a

climbing frame as she

rests at her lair in India's

Bandhavgarh National

Park. They will soon join

her on brief expeditions

away from the den

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TIGERS

(^66) Vol. 6 Issue 12
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