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The Sundarban Tiger

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I hope it gives us an idea


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The Blind Tigress Of Sundarbans

She's like Belladonna
A most gorgeous flower
But don't underestimate her
Or your gonna feel her power...

This majestic creation of nature was spotted swimming across a canal at the Pirkhali forest of Sundarbans, West Bengal.

Once I descended from Cloud 9, I realised that she was blind in her left eye. To me, her partial blindness did not seem to have happened through injury, it looked more like a case of cataract. I hope that her good eye will serve her well right through her entire natural life.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have sighted her, because I know that tiger sightings are few and far between at the Sundarbans. My gratitude to Above & Beyond Tours Kolkata for making this possible.

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( This post was last modified: 02-16-2017, 08:46 AM by Ba Ba Lou )

Ngala,

Great  pics on those massive Sundarbans  tigers. Yes I thought Sundarbans tiger were thin and small but these pics of yours show that Sundarbans tigers in that certain forest region of the Sundarbans are very stocky and compact.
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Sundarbans tigers, most likely the most dangerous species of Bengal tigers known to man.
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( This post was last modified: 02-21-2017, 08:08 PM by Rishi )

(02-16-2017, 08:45 AM)Ba Ba Lou Wrote: Sundarbans tigers, most likely the most dangerous species of Bengal tigers known to man.

Probably not..They used to do a lot of man-eating, because of the presence of large number of men inside the forest at very high density...unlike any other place in the world!!! Just like at the fringe forests, where tigers' diet consists of 70% cattle, because of their AVAILABILITY.
Today people need special permits issued by Forest dept. & have to wait for their turn to prevent overharvesting of Sundarbans & that killings have fallen to 2-4 a year now-a-days...& falling. (Used to be 100 sometimes)....I can present statistics, but they are written in Bengali.  Grin


Tigers elsewhere can identify humans as foreign elements, they have seen the villages & religiously avoid them. The ones who haven't, are so because they live deeper in the forests & have little contact with mankind.
But here, they are used to seeing hundreds of fishermen, woodcutters, honeycollectors roaming arround in the forest at any point of time, miles away from the last settlement at the forest fringes, which he doesn't know exist (there are none inside sundarbans)..just like any deer or boar, its natural preys, do & SEE NO REASON TO DIFFERENTIATE US FROM THEM.
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( This post was last modified: 02-27-2017, 11:43 PM by Ngala )

Photo and information credits: Upamanyu Roy
"Sun , Swamp and Shardul"

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Though flexed, those are amazingly impressive forearms,

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Tongue  ( This post was last modified: 03-14-2017, 09:07 AM by Rishi )

I was kinda bored...
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Sundarban tiger, credits to Soumyajit Nandy.

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From Mrityunjay Mandal's FB page..

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...& Suvarthi Guha's.

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( This post was last modified: 07-15-2017, 11:33 AM by parvez )

Sunderban tigers, 

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To the below tiger, a rope from poachers got tied to the left paw,  Angry

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I think the last image in above post is from Corbett
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( This post was last modified: 07-15-2017, 11:50 AM by parvez )

Yes I too thought the same way. But after confirmation I am ready to delete it.
Edit: Done. Deleted the inappropriate picture
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