B2 and Other Great Tiger Pics from India

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During our morning safari, we had planned to sight Jharni with her three cubs and Mowgli. Our guide was speculating that Jharni with her cubs sighting is possible as previous day she had killed a Sambar deer and left the carcass. So she would definitely bring her cubs to feed them but Mowgli was doubtful as he is injured due to territorial fight with Chota Matka. Things changed as we entered the forest, within 20 mins we could see all jeeps waiting for Chota Matka as he just went inside the thickets. Luckily, he was on the move sniffing around the places for any new scent mark and taking over Mowgli's territory by scent marking. We were lucky to witness him actions and head-on. April 2022 TATR, Maharashtra

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Mowgli after losing his recent fight with Chota Matka, he doesn't seem to be badly injured from what i see. hopefully i am right and he recovers fast. (April/2022)

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Volatile times at Tadoba. Tadoba today resembles a kaleidoscope, ever changing and very exciting to look at. But beneath the surface calm is the ongoing frantic struggle to establish territorial dominance. The dominant male “Rudra”(No.1) is today recuperating from the after effects of a fierce struggle for survival, made worse by a porcupine quill that only added to the injury.  He is down but not out. Struggling to save his last bastion and the cubs born recently to his paramour “Tara”. The intruding new big male “Balram” ( No.2) has already established his hold over the prime real estate of Tadoba as also his hold over the queen “Maya”. Another un-named and unknown new large male (No.3) is already knocking at the gates to threaten both “Rudra” and “Balram”. “Rudra” had earlier pushed out “Matka” (No.4) to the buffer areas, who in turn pushed out the dominant kankazari male (No.6) to establish his hegemony in one of the buffer areas. “Matka’s” dominance in the buffer is now being threatened by “Tala” who was also pushed out to the buffer by his sibling “Rudra”.  In an another buffer “Matka’s” huge son “Chota Matka” (7) is pushing out the dominant big male “Mowgli” ( No.5) from his established territory. Similar stories are now visible in other areas of Tadoba as well, and to describe each would run into pages. New kings may soon be crowned giving birth to new progenies at the cost of the earlier ones. As they say: “The king is dead, Long live the king”.


(April/2022)

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V7 aka Veerapan from Sirkheda Buffer (April/2022)

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old picture of Umarpani male pinning down Jamuntola male 

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Dudhwa male tiger charging at tourist vehicle (April/2022)

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Kaziranga male 

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Thunder male from Dudhwa (March/2022)

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big tigress from Kaziranga (April/2022)

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888 male of Shahnur gate - Melghat Tiger Reserve  (Dec/2021)

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888 male

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