Number of Tigers in the pic - Answer is 18

The pic of finding the number of Tigers went viral through WhatsApp and other social networks. You can find the original art work that went viral below

Most People found the number of Tigers in the pic to be 16. Even many websites returned search results to be 16. You can see the easy 16 Tigers marked in red below.

But the number of Tigers actually in this pic is 18. Yes! It may surprise you. Below the 17th and 18thth ones are highlighted in red

Yes it may look kind of abstract art first. But once you recognise them you can't continue to see the 17th and 18th as branch and bunch of leaves.

Every artist puts vast amount of time to find references and tweaking minute details. Kudos to whomever did this beautiful piece of art.

The principle underlying of the hiding of the images is 'negative spacing' and you can find them easily if you have a good visual database.

NOTE: I was able to find them because I am a graphic designer. 

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