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 A tiger basks in a sunbeam in Kanha. No more than 6,000 remain in the wild. |
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It seeems right out of Kipling. In two preeminent national parksRoyal Chitwan,
in Nepal, and Kanha, in Indiavisitors ride elephants to view wildlife.
The star attraction is the biggest, most powerful cat on earth: the tiger. Once common,
the Bengal tiger and the wilderness community that sustained itaxis deer, wild pigs, giant wild oxenhave now been reduced to scattered refuges. Royal Chitwan
Park, below the Himalayan foothills, and Kanha, a few hundred miles south, are two
of the best refuges, preserving forest and meadows critical to the survival of the tiger.
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