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The tiger is an apex predator, and as all animals around the world that fill that niche, it is a bell weather of how that environment is doing. Predators are important to keep the numbers of prey species in check. Overpopulation could be disasterous, allowing diseases to spread, and starvation could be their fate if they overgraze food sources.

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