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CATEGORY C
Unidentifiable

At least 49 photos were of poor quality where either stripes were indiscernible or material
insufficient (only whiskers, tail etc) for identification. A photo depicting only the head or the rump
of a tiger may be useful for recording a recapture event if better photos of the animal already exist
in the archive. But such a photo alone cannot be used to identify a unique individual. For example, a
head-only photo cannot be compared for unique identity even if a single unique tiger in the same
data set was captured without its head in the frame.

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Not above 12 months

Population surveys typically disregard young animals because of their high mortality. The cut-off
age for the tiger estimation is variously described as 12-18 months in these reports. On the
conservative side, we focussed only on photos of tigers that cannot be considered 12-month-old or
older with certainty and those added up to at least 46.

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