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      Camera Trap Photographs Capture India's Wild Tigers

      The images are helping conservationists estimate population sizes of the secretive cats

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      Camera Trap Photographs Capture India's Wild Tigers
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      Over the past 25 years the Malenad camera traps have captured 8,843 images of 888 individual tigers. Credits: Courtesy of K. Ullas Karanth

      Camera Trap Photographs Capture India's Wild Tigers

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      • Every tiger has a unique coat pattern, which makes it possible to identify individuals from photographs and count them. 
        Courtesy of K. Ullas Karanth
      • Karanth has set up camera traps in forests of southwestern India's hill country, known as Malenad, to monitor the tiger populations there. Courtesy of K. Ullas Karanth
      • The camera traps sample only a subset of the tigers in a population. But sophisticated statistical methods allow one to estimate population size from that subset.  Courtesy of K. Ullas Karanth
      • Over the past 25 years the Malenad camera traps have captured 8,843 images of 888 individual tigers. Courtesy of K. Ullas Karanth
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      • The Malenad landscape now harbors some 400 to 450 tigers, perhaps the largest tiger population in the world.  Courtesy of K. Ullas Karanth
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