Amur Tigers

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(10-04-2018, 11:46 AM)Rishi Wrote:

(10-04-2018, 11:02 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(10-04-2018, 05:39 AM)Rishi Wrote:

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Your observation is correct. That images is a panorama of multiple seperate camera-trap images. As each member of the family passed the spot, they got themselves clicked.

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What I find odd, that there is snow on that one branch, it is there above the head of the adult male and then when that third cub is there. Female and 2 other cubs doesn´t have it there. And that snow is in the exactly same spot, so it makes me wonder if those photos are really taken at same time. If that would be something on the lens of camera, how come in exactly same place in with two tigers... and if that would be snow on the branch and tigers walking in this order, it should be really in every photo. 

I can´t be sure of course, but for me that looks like, that those tigers maybe haven´t been walking there in so same time as photo makes it look like. Or at least not in that order because male and last cub have that different thing there. Maybe a little thing and someone just have wanted to place tiger to this order for some reason :) I mean maybe tigers walked like this, but male tiger in reality walked behind that last cub.... then that snow on that branch would be logical to be in exactly same place. There are just so many fake photos about different things, that when seeing something special I happen to look closer to details.

Good observation, but incomplete one.

Take a look at the full set:

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The first patch of snow over the male (one finger) is also present on the last cub & no other snap. 

Similarly there's a second snow that's just over the female (two fingers), that is again not present above the males hip nor the cubs.

I think that they did pass the camera-traps together, but not in that^ order. The male & last cub definitely went successively.  
It probably wasn't snowing but was pretty windy, that made lumps of snow fall off branches & from higher ones to lower branches.  

That's my take on the case... not fake but incorrectly arranged.

Yes, you made same observations, which I did and you managed to get the whole photo there, thanks! Pretty much what I think too, that these photos were modified in that way. I wouldn´t count out possibility, that russian photographer just wanted to put male there like a "brave leader", people can be funny sometimes for strange reasons :) Still what comes to photos and situations in wildlife I prefer to see photos and situations completely authentic. Wild animals act like they do, not as humans, so arranging animals in photos like this in "right" order :/ I think, that people are interested to learn how tigers act in wildlife, not to see as some "artist" wants to make it look like.

That panorama would be impressive even if photos in that order, when taken. I wrote already about that, but it vanished after I modified writing a little bit. Reply