Man-Animal Interaction: Conflict & Coexistance

[sanjay]

Today I saw a very interesting post on fb by Dharmendra Khandal, one of the popular conservationist. Active in Ranthambore National Park of India.
He reported a very interesting incident where A tigress passes nearby from a sleeping (In his field) farmer at night. See the below images and read what He wrote about this incident.

Quote:A tacit approval from the tigress herself
Amarsingh Gurjar is a Village Wildlife Volunteer and a fulltime farmer. After completing his daily chores and VWV work of setting up Camera Traps, he as usual set up his 'Khatiya' (Charpai or Cot / Bed) in his farm. He daily sleeps near his farm to scare off the herbivores like Blue bull, Sambhar Deer and Wild Boars who come to feast on the standing crops. This, he has been doing since he sowed the field.
On 3rd Dec'15, he performed his routine task and went to sleep on his khatiya (Bed) at night around 9:30 PM. Next morning, when he woke up, lot of emotions gripped him. He was scared, amused, elated, relieved panicky all at the same time. What he saw were tigress pugmarks inches away from his bed. His scariness slowly became his curiosity and he followed the pugmarks which led him to the camera trap he had set last night. On checking, he was elated to see the tiger picture captured by the camera at 11.36 PM.
In his words, "Tiger to soongh ke gaya" - Tiger sniffed and went. This event has been one of the most interesting events in the VWV program's one year history. This is like a tacit approval from the tigress herself of the VWV program and a message from tiger-'you are my saviour, I shall not hurt you'. VWV program is supported by TOFT India and many supporters like Subhro and Ishan Dhar

Below are images
Bed of the farmer where he sleep

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Farmer "Amarsingh" . Morning after the scary night, You can see the tigress pugmark just beside the mobile

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Another image of the pugmark of tigress

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And finally the image of tigress which was caught in the camera

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This is an rare incident but very interesting for everyone.
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