B2 and Other Great Tiger Pics from India

[Tshokwane]

Credits to Sanjeev Siva‎.

The Winter Soldier.


This is the tiger whose mate has been killed, and whose cubs have been taken away from him, yet he makes every effort to meet the cubs. This is the heart-wrenching story of the winter soldier.

He is infamously known as Bamera's son. Not only did he acquire the genetic traits but also habits; known for feeding off the cattle in the porous core habitat.

He had a mate named Kankati who was supposedly poached during 'off-season', while she was still taking care of her three cubs. The mother was gone long, and the father was doting; hunting for them and caring for them. This is an uncommon but a previously noticed behavior in the tiger world.

Enter Gods by the name humans, and they remove the cubs from the custody of the father, doubting that the cubs might be killed, even without observation and purely based on supposition.

The cubs are put up in an enclosure, fenced on four sides, in the same area where they were born and raised by their parents, emulating a natural environment.

The heart-wrenching part - the father, it is said, visits the cubs regularly and they spend time together at the fence despite what human understanding of these magnificent creatures has always been; ill-considered and injudicious.

He is the winter soldier for he's enduring the hard times, like no other.

Bamera's son aka Mr. X taking a stroll on a winter evening | Bandhavgarh TR.

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