There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
05-21-2015, 08:41 AM( This post was last modified: 05-21-2015, 08:48 AM by GuateGojira )
(05-20-2015, 09:38 PM)'Pckts' Wrote: I think photographers see the impact of these wild animals far better than we do sitting behind a computer screen. They get to talk with actual witnesses and the people who actually live in these areas. They are able to take the "pulse" of the community. They get to build actual relationships with these animals and see how they are mistreated first hand.
I don't want to deviate of the topic, but I think is necessary to clarify some issues.
I don't think that photographers see any impact or get any "pulse", because they are normally not aware of the scientific point of view. Most photographers are "biased" and don't present solutions for the problems, only opinions and even attacks to certain groups. Most of them care about the "individual" and not see the full panorama of the situation and how this can affect the species in the long therm. Instead of only protest, they should create plans of actions and support investigations in order to see if this tiger is the man-eater that some persons say it is. That is important to take in count.
Other thing, I don't know how some poster classify themselves here, but posters like Peter, Tigerluver or I, don't know tigers only behind computer screens, we have made "field" work collecting and presenting literature, contacting real scientists that have made long term studies with scientific approaches and quantitative information based in Science. Photographers mostly present only the "singles" cases that they are able to see and in some cases, barely understand, but sadly none of them publish anything apart from they pictures. I think that if they have "real" information, like Pckts assume, they should start to summarize it and publish the results, even if it is in a webpage or forum, in order to collect all the data from they community, and only in that form it will be possible to convert all that "qualitative" data in "quantitative" information. In other words, they experiences and little glimpses are very important, but it should be collected, analyzed and finally presented to the scientific community. Nobody dismiss they founds, but Science needs evidence and information in "order".
I will like to see complete stories of the modern tigers in Ranthambore, like have done Valmik Thapar in his books, but sadly the only thing that we have are random reports of several photographers, on several webpages, that even they are unable to interconnect them. Am I explaining myself, or am going too deep?
Hope you understand my point of view, now we can continue with the true point of the topic: the situation and destiny of Ustad and if he is a man-eater or just a wild animal that is tired of humans.
Male tiger ustaad T-24 killed forest gaurd in Ranthambore
