The ending doesn't seem probable.

The hunter assumed the tiger was the last of its kind.

Yes the thread running through the film from discussions with Redleaf and the locals, is that this is the last of its kind.

Wouldn't it be smarter to try to follow the animal as long as possible to see if it would lead him to where other tigers might be living?

That wasn't his brief and by the end of the film, it's clear that telling Redleaf about the possible existence of more tigers would be the last thing that Martin would do.

Rather than killing the tiger, he could have captured it for study by the nearest university, zoo, research center, etc.

True, you or I may have tried to do that. But I think the film (and book from memory) wanted to keep the story as realistic as possible, whilst utilizing as the main story context, the ongoing debate about whether the tiger still exists. Thus we see the very poignant, but understandable final events as played out on the screen.🐭

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