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India's Missing Tigers.(Society and the Arts; CONSERVATION)(Royal Bengal tiger)

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Byline: Jeremy Kahn

Democracy and economic development are driving India's giant cat toward extinction.

Dawn at Kanha National Park in India's central highlands is welcomed with a symphony of animal sounds. The safari guides in their jeeps listen intently, straining to pick out telltale dissonant notes--the honk of a sambar, the shriek of a chital or the loud cough of a langur. These are alarm calls: they mean that somewhere out there in the high, dry grass, a tiger is on the prowl.

Kanha is one of the last strongholds of the Royal Bengal tiger, perhaps the world's fiercest terrestrial predator--and its most beautiful. The chance to glimpse ...

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