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B2 and Other Great Tiger Pics from India

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(12-25-2016, 03:46 AM)Roflcopters Wrote:
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The Dark Knight.

As the temperatures soar to triple the value in the mornings, a seemingly tired mother lounges under the shade, while her son keeps a watchful eye on the surroundings. Is he Tadoba’s knight in shining armour and the vigilant protector?

Maya, a name ubiquitous with every tourist to Tadoba, is the queen of the prey rich territory that spans across P1, P2, Tadoba and Jamunbodi lakes, a territory she inherited from her mother.

Unfortunately, the area teems with male tigers, a couple of them in their prime. Each big cat wants to have its own ruling line and they kill the litter that doesn’t belong to them.

It has been close to two years since Maya delivered a litter of 3 cubs, widely supposed to have come from a huge and elusive male called ‘Narasimha’. The cubs grew up safely under the watchful and protective eye of their parents. But in the absence of Narasimha, other opportunistic males appeared. (Some say, the cubs are from Gabbar, another prime male, but we will never know for sure)

At the crescendo of their infant life, a male tiger called ‘Matkasur’ trailed Maya and chased the cubs, that ran for their life. The whereabouts of a male and female cub were unknown since.

Maya, now, stayed put and kept a close watch on her lone surviving son. Since, he was too young and inept, she stayed with him at times, making a kill for him now and then. She would often leave her son alone, kept him whimpering on occasions – I personally witnessed one such occasion; what doesn't break one, makes one stronger.

A prime male, Gabbar, father of Maya’s earliest litter, returns from exile (an epithet for buffer) and mates with Maya and leaves. Meanwhile, Matkasur forces Maya to mate with him – she initially 
denies but any defiant measures would lead to a doubt that the bigger and stronger male tiger would threaten her or her son. A third male Bokha, another prime, mated with Maya.

It may not be uncommon in wild for a tigress to mate with many tigers, but for a doting mother, to keep her and her son alive, it is. The tigress seems to have taken a leaf out of Darwinian evolution – ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survives, but the one most adaptable to change’.

He may be the white knight who protects his mother in the light, but she’s the dark knight, a silent protector and a watchful guardian.





some of the information is wrong, Narasimha wasn't around back then and it was Navegaon male that was sighted with Maya and the cubs a while back, Maya was apparently keeping him away from the cubs and to everyone's surprise. he did not act aggressive towards the cubs. a rare behavior of an adult male tiger peacefully co-existing with cubs that weren't his own.



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Navegaon male and Maya's cub from a distance


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Navegaon male with the cubs, Maya in the back. 


sadly, at only 11 months of age. all the cubs unwillingly dispersed from Maya towards the end of May/2016 and with 4 males in town, Maya's cubs lives were in grave danger and all of them dissappeared. only Chota Namdev was sighted again in September and has since reunited with mom. the fate of the other two are unknown and I have no doubt that they're still surviving and forest department recently confirmed that they're alive and kicking and I think i believe them. the cubs were observed making kills at 10 months of age, Maya taught them well. infact the picture that i posted a few post back was a kill made by the cubs themselves.


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hello friends, Narsimha male is not the father of Maya cubs. Maya\'s cubs are born in June 15. Back then narsimha/navegaon male wasn't in picture in Tadoba range. That time Katezari male and Saturn were regularly visiting Tadoba lake and area. So the cubs are either from katezri male or Saturn. But From the looks, Maya's male cub is similar to katezari male. At 1.5 years, he is large like Katezari male is . In my opinion Katezari male is the father.
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