Odisha's Forest Department arrests poachers targeting rare melanistic tigers in Similipal, home to unique pseudo-melanistic tigers.
Per National Geographic, Similipal Tiger Reserve is home to the world's only wild population of black tigers, also known as pseudo-melanistic tigers. In another part of the world, photographer ...
An estimated 13 adult tigers (seven females and six males) are pseudo-melanistic in Similipal. No other wild habitat in the world has pseudo-melanistic tigers.