Male Tigers with Cubs

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I am not agree anymore in saying that these are "exceptional" behaviors. From my point of view, based in several evidence taken from studies and photographs, the Indian tiger IS a great father.

Observations in Kanha, Nepal, Tadoba and Rantambhore, show that the father tiger is a very important figure in the social life. They not only protect the territory from other male tigers, in order to prevent infanticide, but also it has been show that he share the food with they families and even leave the prey completely for his "wife" and sons.

What we are seeing here is the normal behavior of the male Bengal tiger, that has been hidden since many times, but bravely showed and defended by the great Valmik Thapar since 1980 and beyond.

Now, the challenge is to see if this same paternal behavior is repeated in the other tiger areas, like Indochina, Sumatra and Russia. At this moment, there was no direct evidence of paternal behavior of tigers in the Amur region, but one resent exceptional photograph showed a family together (father, mother and 3 sons), which could suggest some kind of relationship in the long term, despite the large areas that they most take care.

Other thing, it is remarkable that the male tiger, been a loner by nature, is less aggressive with its cubs and his females than the male lion. Although the male lion do share its meals with the cubs, it normally attack the females. In the tiger, this is no the case, at least when the female have cubs. Interestingly, don't you think?
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