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Bathing Tigress, India
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic
March 20, 2002
With feline grace abandoned, Bachhi takes her picture by breaking an infrared beam at an unmanned remote-camera in Bandhavgarh. Sweltering in 120-degree heat, she seeks relief in a pool, despite its fetid brew of rotting leaves and monkey urine.
Photograph and text from the December 1997 feature story "Making Room for Wild Tigers."