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The Sundarban Tiger
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 (03-17-2020, 10:18 PM)epaiva Wrote: Powerful Sunderban Tigers Their coats look very dark/deep red. Their Central Indian Cousins have a much lighter coat if these scans haven't been edited. 
It does seem like them and the tigers from northern and north eastern India have deeper reddish coats and those in central, southern and western india have a lighter coat. The clear correlation being vegetation of course. We can extend this to sumartrans being darkest in densest vegetation, and Siberians being lightest in sparse vegetation.
 
At least in the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans, if a man is killed by a tiger, then his widow (nicknamed a "tiger widow" here) is deemed to be a witch and shunned by members of her society: https://gulfnews.com/photos/news/banglad...45?slide=7
 (04-16-2020, 11:31 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote: At least in the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans, if a man is killed by a tiger, then his widow (nicknamed a "tiger widow" here) is deemed to be a witch and shunned by members of her society: https://gulfnews.com/photos/news/banglad...45?slide=7 Yeah, no... Typical reporters trying to cash-in on sob story with overdramatic photos meant for gullible clueless readers. Some social prejudices do still exist, but nowhere near what is portrayed in crap like these.
Latest census from 2019 reveals that Indian part of Sunderbans has seen an increase of 8 adults taking the number to 96 (it was pegged at 88 for 2018 and in NTCA national census). 23 male, 43 female, 30 unidentified and 11 cubs (not included in numbers).
https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/tiger-population-in-sunderbans-rises-to-96/article31529772.ece
While lion census in Gujarat got postponed for indefinite time due to circumstances, Sundarban Tiger census fieldwork got completed just before lockdown started. The 1st phase commencing on December 16 and ending on January 13, while the 2nd phase starting on January 22 and ending on February 19. Results for it just got declared.
 *This image is copyright of its original author The estimation revealed presence of atleast confirmed individual 96 tigers, from which 23 were identified as male & 43 as female, while the sex of 30 big cats could not be determined. The survey also revealed the presence of 33 tiger cubs. 23 tigers were found in reverse forests of 24 Parganas (South) Division, 73 big cats tigers were recorded inside the four divisions of the Sunderban Tiger Reserve. “For the first period, a total of 1,156 Cuddeback camera traps (578 pairs) were installed in the Sunderban Tiger Reserve and during the second period, 272 camera traps (136 pairs) were installed in the 24 Parganas (South) Division,” the State Forest Department said.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Ignore the badly edited call and focus on the video itself (mute it if possible).
Large male from Sundarbans.
I’m not sure whether this has been posted earlier, I went through the thread and couldn’t find it, so, here goes.
A male crossing a stream |
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