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The Sundarban Tiger
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Sundarban male on Camera trap...  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Old cattle-lifter in Jharkhali rescue centre...  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Swimming for dry grounds at high-tide...  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Tides often wash away the soil, leaving a skeleton of roots...  *This image is copyright of its original author Stranded young male being released...  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author On a winter morning...  *This image is copyright of its original author Ona summer noon...  *This image is copyright of its original author Mating pair...  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Mudflats...  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
 (08-11-2017, 06:28 PM)Rishi Wrote: Enjoy!!! @Rishi Nice very good pictures of Sunderban Tigers  
It's quite possible that some of this beautiful specimens are man-eaters ...
(08-14-2017, 09:58 AM)Wolverine Wrote: It's quite possible that some of this beautiful specimens are man-eaters ... Maybe a few of them have/will have taken a man or two at some point of their lives... doesn't make them man-eaters. A man-eater doesn't behave like THIS infront of a safari-boat, full of people, stuck in mud at low tide. That's something normal paparazzi-accustomed ones like, say Umarpani, would do...  *This image is copyright of its original author (Please read my post #81 here, for more on the so called "man-eaters" take/took people within the forest). After the critical tiger habitat was designated as Tiger Reserve in 1973, the core area with the highest tiger density (& attacks), was declared out of bounds. As far as "professional" man-eaters are concerned, the ones actively raid human habitations, were few & behaved similarly to the rest of the world's. Some used to swim to the villages. They either returned to the forests themselves or were tranquilised, caged, treated & released deeper inside the forest. I quote thd Field Director of Sundarban Tiger Reserve: Quote:“Ageing, injured, incapacitated tigers, young pregnant tigresses and young tigers which fail turf war for control over habitat come to prey on human-inhabited deltas & swim the surrounding rivers to enter 25 border villages. During breeding season, tigers come to the islands to litter cubs in safe paddy fields and bushes near the villages.” Advantage with the Sundarban is that it has no habitations inside it. Today, the whole 65+km long forest-village interface have been net fenced. This how the forest looks from the villages...  *This image is copyright of its original author ..& they work fine(except in few cases of wide rivers & cyclone damages).  *This image is copyright of its original author
(08-14-2017, 09:58 AM)Wolverine Wrote: It's quite possible that some of this beautiful specimens are man-eaters ... Yes, and so what ? Should they be killed ? A man-eater tiger is very often a tiger which is disturbed by some humans that are encroaching on its territory. If every precaution is not taken, an error can happen very quickly and that's the tragedy. An tiger reacts as an tiger, it isn't an "human killer", let them be tigers and let us consider them as tigers. But don't let us give to them an opportunity to behave as an aggressive tiger against us, of course... I read a very interesting article about the Sunderban a long time ago. That's a region which is engorged of water, salt water and the tigers being unable to mark efficiently their territories would be more aggressive than everywhere else. Perhaps too, walking in this region would require even more caution.
Historically known as a "Jungle of the man-eaters" make Sundarbans somehow even more attractive for Western tourists seaking danger...
"The Ganges, the great river sacred to Hindus, rises among the snowy mountains of the Himalayas and flows through the rich provinces of Kashmir, Delhi, Agra, Benares, Patna and Bengal, giving life to some of the most populous cities in India. Three hundred miles from the sea, it divides in two, forming within its branches a vast delta unique to the world. A multitude of streams emanate fromthose imposing arms; large and small canals crisscross that immense tract of land bounded by the Bay of Bengal, creating an infinite number of islands, islets and sandbanks, known to the world as the Sundarbans. No sight is stranger, more desolate or more frightening than the Sundarbans. No cities, no villages, no huts or hovels; endless forests of thorny bamboo stretch from north to south, east to west, the tops of their tall stems swaying in the wind among the deadly miasma rising from the rotting foliage and human corpses set adrift in the Ganges. By day, a dismal silence reigns supreme, instilling terror in even the bravest of souls, but once darkness descends, the air fills with a frightening cacophony of howls, roars, and hisses that make the blood run cold. Ask a Bengali to set foot in the Sundarbans and he will refuse; an offer of a hundred, two hundred, five hundred rupees, will not sway him. Ask a Molango1and he will refuse just as adamantly, to set foot in those jungles is to ask for death. A thousand dangers lurk beneath those forests among the mire and sallow waters. Giant crocodiles swim in search of prey; tigers lay in wait for passing boats, ready to pounce upon the first sailor that dares get close to shore. Rhinoceroses roam the land, ready to attack at the slightest provocation; snakes abound in infinite varieties, from tiny poisonous serpents to enormous pythons large enough to grind an ox within their coils. But perhaps the most deadly of all are the Indian Thugs, dreaded stranglers that skulk in the shadows, searching for victims to sacrifice to their bloodthirsty goddess." (08-15-2017, 01:49 AM)Wolverine Wrote: Historically known as a "Jungle of the man-eaters" make Sundarbans somehow even more attractive for Western tourists seaking danger... Well, historically there has been a lot of man-eating there. I think i've read an account that some 12,000 people (woodcutter, honey-collectors & fishermen) entered the Sundarbans in 1915. Now it kinda hard for the tiger NOT to take down a hundred or so of them. Anyways, where did you get that piece?? Sundarbans were the western-most stronghold of Lesser one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicas)...but that was 200 years ago!!! PS: Quote:..endless forests of thorny bamboo stretch... Sundarban has no bamboo species. Maybe the author meant the Golpata.  *This image is copyright of its original author It's related to palm...
Rishi, if I'm not in mistake you are from West Bengal, aren't you. Why local scientists don't push regional government to reintroduce water buffaloes in Sundarbans from Kaziranga? It will boost tiger population there for sure. Until 19th century there were a lot of wild buffaloes and rhinos there.
O, those citate is from old Italian adventure novel writhen a century ago, it's not a scientific text. Its just the most picturesque description of Sundarbans I have ever red. The problem of Sundarbans is that they are threatened by Global warming because of their very low elevation. Its quite possible that with the rising of ocean levels one day after 30 or 40 years Sundarbans will be under water together with huge parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal... Only one meter rising of sea levels probably will be enough to destroy Sundarbans ecosystem. (08-16-2017, 02:13 AM)Wolverine Wrote: Rishi, if I'm not in mistake you are from West Bengal, aren't you. Why local scientists don't push regional government to reintroduce water buffaloes in Sundarbans from Kaziranga? It will boost tiger population there for sure. Until 19th century there were a lot of wild buffaloes and rhinos there. Because their's was believed to have been a (largely) natural extinction. Closest relatives of the Sundarbans' buffalo are the local domesticated breed in Bangladesh, small animals with course reddish hair.  *This image is copyright of its original author
That's interesting. I thought the wild buffaloes were exterminated in Sundarbans by British hunters in the end of 19 centuries. But probably you are right - its not possible to hunt down all buffaloes in such vast and tick mangrove jungles. In any way I think there is nothing wrong to try to reintroduce water buffaloes in Sundarban, they are semi-aquatic animals, excellent swimers and could survive among mangrove forests. I mean a real giant wild buffaloes from Kaziranga, not degenerated semi-domestic animals everywhere in the subcontinent. That's gonna be good for that endangered specie and good for local tigers.
And what about reintroduction of rhinos in Sundarban? Unfortunately the original for those places Javan rhinos are on the verge of extinction and there is no chance to return them in Bengal next 30-40 years. But at least maybe Indian rhinos could adapt to mangrove forests, they are also excellent swimers. Better the wrong rhinos than no rhinos at all. (08-18-2017, 08:56 AM)Wolverine Wrote: That's interesting. I thought the wild buffaloes were exterminated in Sundarbans by British hunters in the end of 19 centuries. But probably you are right - its not possible to hunt down all buffaloes in such vast and tick mangrove jungles. In any way I think there is nothing wrong to try to reintroduce water buffaloes in Sundarban, they are semi-aquatic animals, excellent swimers and could survive among mangrove forests. I mean a real giant wild buffaloes from Kaziranga, not degenerated semi-domestic animals everywhere in the subcontinent. That's gonna be good for that endangered specie and good for local tigers. I used to hope for it once. But not anymore... There are lots of possible regions available for reintroduction of rhinos/water-buffaloes & Sundarbans is going to be the last to be taken into consideration. Take for example the salinity level, which is twice that of Assam (& any other probable sites of Terai or Northern plains) is alone enough to push them to extinction...again. Indian scientific community won't allow such rash & risky experimentation. PS: I know that here are some "Feral" buffalos that the tigers do hunt, atleast on the Indian side of Sundarbans there are. Also, buffalos (like cats) are never truely domesticated. Check THIS... 
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Monsoon, Mangrove and a Male. There's something special about seeing a tiger in rain in the Sundarbans.This individual gave us a very close sighting! August 2017.  *This image is copyright of its original author
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