Stunning photos show families, including toddlers, posing and petting unchained tigers at a zoo in Phuket, Thailand.
The images capture visitors interacting closely with the big cats at Tiger Kingdom, a popular attraction on Phuket Island.
The tigers featured are of the Indochinese subspecies, which has experienced a significant decline in population—around 70% in just over ten years.
Despite this, the animals appear calm around the numerous tourists who enter their enclosures daily.
Tiger Kingdom allows visitors to touch the tigers, ranging in age from two months to three years, for a fee starting at £14 per person.
The zoo only offers these interactions with young tigers, as Indochinese tigers can live up to 15 years in the wild.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) notes that this endangered tiger subspecies is now only found in six countries: Thailand, Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
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