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An albino Bengal tiger cub called Kartopu is seen in the open area at Gaziantep Wildlife Protection Park in Turkey. The tiger cub gained weight with special care after it was found in a villa in Istanbul aged three months and weighing only 22 kilograms…
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Stanley, a five-day-old Rothschild giraffe, takes his first steps outside the giraffe house at Chester Zoo. Stanley’s mum, Orla, delivered him onto soft straw after a 15-month pregnancy and three-hour labour on Saturday. Keepers named 6ft Stanley after Mount Stanley, the tallest mountain in Uganda, where the zoo’s conservationists are fighting to boost giraffe numbers. Rothschild’s giraffes are one of Africa’s most at-risk mammals with fewer than 2,500 now remaining in the wild…
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The Bengal tiger is a population of the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris tigris found in the Indian subcontinent. Ranking among the largest wild cats alive today, it is considered to be one of 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, and habitat loss and fragmentation, and was estimated to comprise fewer than 2,500 wild individuals by 2011. The tiger is the national animal of India. This female Bengal tiger was photographed in Kanha Tiger Reserve, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh…
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