In Forests of Dooars, North Bengal

[Rishi]

Continuation of previous post...

They kept loitering in the clearing & slowly inching outside to the pond.  

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Then two elephants came out from behind them. One looked to be an older female & other it's daughter. There was a young male calf.

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The gaurs hurried up a bit & soon occupied the salt-lick.

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At full zoom, i could see a little something between the two females!

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They approached warily, waiting for the gaurs to disperse by themselves, who had two little calves of their own, prancing around all over the place...

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...challenging the pigs.

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Finally the gaurs were moved/shoved aside & i could at last see the little one, maybe born last year only.

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At this time a massive elephant, which looked like an old male that'd lost both his tusks, walked by briskly & vanished in the forests to the left.
The male calf kept a respectful distance...

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At this time it started getting dark because the sun had set. We called it a day (what a day!) & headed back.

Our guide was the one especially impressed by our luck. We literally had "almost everything that could be seen" come out & pose infront of us one by one, in only 2 hours.
Leopards, whose population has exploded since loss of tigers in the '50s, eluded us though. Or maybe not... most of the times, i wouldn't even know if i were looking directly at one.

I hoped a rhino was waiting for me at Jaldapara National Park, our next destination.

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