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 (03-28-2019, 08:00 AM)Rishi Wrote:(03-27-2019, 09:23 PM)Pckts Wrote: Pintu Uike Chotta Matka looks taller and longer. Look at the post 1194 in "Large male tigers from India (videos only)" thread.  (03-28-2019, 08:00 AM)Rishi Wrote:(03-27-2019, 09:23 PM)Pckts Wrote: Pintu Uike Definitely, Choti Matka still has some years to go before he puts on the mass his father has, but it's no surprise he's bigger than his father in frame, Matkasur isn't a particularly large Tiger but despite his size he's still able to dominate his area. It's also surprising that two smaller Tigers, Matkasur and Choti Tara are able to create a larger Tiger comparatively.
Gaurav Kalbhor
Chota Munna + Dhawajhandi Female with Cub.. 3 tigers together for over 2 hours.. what a start to Kanha ... ! #BluePlanetWild  *This image is copyright of its original author My buddy again^^^ He's had some amazing luck lately. Gaurav Kalbhor Tadoba never disappoints.. As the heat begins to take grip tigers are often found nearby the last left water sources in the parks. This resident male Matkasur slept in water all afternoon before walking on the road for over 30 minutes.. in the golden light ❤ #BluePlanetWild  *This image is copyright of its original author Dinesh Soni Sangam Male T56 27/03/2019  *This image is copyright of its original author
 (03-27-2019, 05:07 PM)Sanju Wrote: looks more like two females..mother daughter likely @Pckts 
After wandering the whole Nauradehi Sanctuary, Radha - Kishan settled again safely into their territories
Forest department is trying to declare Nauradehi WLS as NATIONAL PARK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For which efforts are being made at high level. The tigers left here i.e.., Radha - Kishan have rounded up the entire sanctuary and now they are staying in one place at last. The sanctuary management is expressing great pleasure because they are likely to meet shortly, so that the cubs can be born and the tigers population or numbers can grow here. Meeting expected between May and November According to information received from the forest department, that tiger and tigress may meet between May and November. In July last year, the two were together and the speculation was that the tigress has become pregnant, but not sure. Again this year it is being estimated that the time to give birth to their cubs is now coming through mating or breeding season. Because last year officials had told that the age of the tigress is low so the two could not get together. In fact, recently last year Radha - Kishan were brought to Nauradehi. Both were kept in the enclosure, but the Kishan tiger ran away by breaking the fence which was later captured and released in the forest after collaring ID. After quite a while, the tigress Radha also freed and released with the collar ID. Two to three months later both of them met and they joined together. After, the two had separated and had moved towards different ranges and showed different movements, but now it has been reported that both have again become reconciled. Dera camp near Baner river Last year when the tiger and tigress were brought here, their fencing was made near the displaced village Jogia, from where the river named Bumner originated. Now they has been released for a year and after which turning around the entire sanctuary, now they are back to their places or home ranges.
Sushilkumar Patil
The Bigg Boss of Khursapar Handsome Male Pench National Park March 2019  *This image is copyright of its original author Kanha Rajesh Yadav Cm  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Ram Kumar Yadav Kanha KTR-T-64 or Bajrang 2nd April 2019  *This image is copyright of its original author Sachinkumar Deokar Maya and Matkasur TATR June 2018  *This image is copyright of its original author
Processes started to make Nauradehi Sanctuary to National Park
"Publish Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 04:07 AM (IST)" Damoh district's Nauradehi can get the approval of the National Park, for which the officers are preparing. For this displacement of dozens of villages of Tendukheda Development block will be done. In fact, Nauradehi is distributed ans spread in three districts and three times bigger than the Panna Tiger Reserve. With the construction of a big dam in Panna, a large area of Panna Tiger Reserve will be "drowned". Hence, the wild animals of that danger prone area which is expected to be drowned, will be shifted here to Nauradehi. So, quickly the displacement of the village and the survey work started shortly thereafter and the report will be sent to Delhi. Right now, the work of installing CCTV cameras and traps is going on for the calculation or census of wild animals. Quote: Wrote:Although the officials are saying that it may take "several years" to become a National Park. First to arrive are Tiger-Tigress (Radha - Kishan duo or pair) which has already arrived After Panna, the second National Park in Bundelkhand Zone can be the Nauradehi Sanctuary !!! For which long preparations are being made by the Forest Department. In the matter of conservation of tigers, eight months ago, tiger-tigress were brought, which are now roaming together. The prey animals have also been left here for their tiger prey base, so that they can create a complete atmosphere for themselves. Before that many villages of Tendukheda have been displaced which have come under the boundary limits of the Nauradehi Sanctuary. Team from Dehradun Various surveys are being conducted for the expansion of the Nauradehi Sanctuary. For this, a few days ago, the team has come from Dehradun, which has done surveys of the beats under the enclosure and have installed CCTV cameras there. From which it can be ascertained what wild animals are there in WLS as well as that of the area that is adaptable to the creature. For this, the team has also laid in the Tendukheda, Taradehi, Jhaloun range beats with and work has also been completed and monitoring of wildlife has started in all beats. A large part of the Panna Tiger Reserve will come in the sunken area Giving information, Ankur Awadhiya, DFO, Nauradehi Sanctuary, said that a big dam will be built on Betwa Pariyona under the Joint Campaign in Panna. This will bring a large part of the Panna Tiger Reserve to the submerged area. Therefore, the wild animals here have to shift somewhere. For this, the plan made is to expand the Nauradehi Sanctuary to National Park. Earlier, a tiger from Panna Tiger Reserve reached Nauradahi Sanctuary by getting into Damoh and after staying for one and a half months in Nauradehi he went back to Panna Tiger in the same way from where he travelled. Quote: Wrote:Now the survey is being done in that corridor passage which that tiger used. By developing that corridor to healthy one and the Nauradehi Sanctuary and Panna can be one and the wild animals enter Nauradehi through the same path and become connected. They said that they are working in the core, buffer and corridor areas. These villages will be displacement In order to make the National Park to the Nauradehi Sanctuary, more than "two dozen" villages of Tedukheda Development block will be included in it and the displacement of these villages will be done. According to the information from the sources, the survey for the displacement of villages, which is to be done, is Khakharia, Dhangor, Darauli, Taraadehi, Bagdari etc. It is being speculated that all the villages coming under the Taradehi Sector can go out of the Nauradehi Sanctuary. Many villages coming under Sarra Range are already coming under the Nairadehi Sanctuary so they will be shifted out. Now in this new survey it will be decided which village will be displaced. Niradehi Sanctuary is three times bigger Nairadehi DFO Ankur Ravidhia said that Panna Tiger Reserve is in the 400 square km area and Nauradehi is three times bigger than Panna that is 1187 sq km. This sanctuary belongs to the Sagar, Damoh and Narsinghpur districts, which can be estimated that the forest here will be increased. They said that they are giving information to the villagers that if the National Park is built there, then the resources will be created and the employment will also be available to the people. With the formation of National Park, tourists from here, from abroad, will visit to see tigers and other wild animals. This will remove the unemployment from this region to a large extent. He said that this work will take many years as the work on it will start only after approval from Delhi. Quote: Wrote:"The Deputy Sub forest Divisional Officer MK Khare told that many villages of Tedukheda development block will be able to shifted out of the Nauradehi Sanctuary to declare as National Park. For this, the further action will be taken after the survey."
Kaleem Kureshi Kanha
Chhota Munna Kanha National Park 26 3 20 19 Nikon D 750 lens Sigma 150 500  *This image is copyright of its original author Harjeet Singh One Fine Morning at Kanha . King on stroll KTR T-29 aka Chota Munna  *This image is copyright of its original author Prantik Chatterjee "This is the law of the Jungle, as old and as true as the sky" Tadoba...  *This image is copyright of its original author Jorel Cuomo Bheem  *This image is copyright of its original author Old age is starting to catch up with him, sad to see. Thakar Keyur Size matters ? Chota Matka ? Tadoba 2019  *This image is copyright of its original author
Pawan Jaiswal Pench
New king pench / New Male L.I Aprl 2019  *This image is copyright of its original author Imran Khan KT-56 Baras female Khursapar Gate Pench  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Pradeep Srirengan The tiger, Wild-boar kill and the grumpy Gaur! This was one special sighting where Chota matka came out with the half eaten kill to drink water. He was thirsty but he also didn't want his father Matkasur to grab his kill (Both were sharing PP2). The Gaur till then was busy grazing. Once out, the Gaur simply was glued to what the tiger was doing and they both were staring at each other for over 10 mins. As guessed by Chota Matka, his father did try to search and grab the kill, but in vain. TATR Mar'19.  *This image is copyright of its original author
How a tiger's record-breaking journey ended in tragedy
Quote:The big cat's epic trek gives hope that one day another tiger will complete a journey to the Gir Forest, home to lions and leopards.5 Minute Read  *This image is copyright of its original author A young male tiger set off on an exploratory walkabout in northwestern India about two years ago. Approaching adulthood, he needed to find his own turf—increasingly difficult in his natal Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, where some 34 other Bengal tigers live. The wildlife officers in charge of the 318-square-mile reserve knew the big cat was on the move and tracked his prints and the claw marks he left on trees until he left Ratapani, in December 2017. They don’t know what clues to new lands he followed as he traversed the landscape beyond the sanctuary’s forests, but ultimately his epic 186-mile journey (one of the longest recorded tiger treks) brought him to the neighboring Gujarat state, where tigers went extinct nearly 30 years ago. Along the way, he likely stuck to forest patches, where he could hunt wild pigs and nilgai, the largest Asian antelope, says Prakriti Srivastava, an Indian Forest Service officer and country director with the nonprofit Wildlife Conservation Society-India, in Karnataka.  *This image is copyright of its original author In Gujarat, the striped predator entered a more human-dominated landscape, but still he managed to avoid detection, probably by resting in dense cover during the day and moving only at night. (Read the true story of Machli, the world's most famous tiger.) Then early in February, a schoolteacher spotted the tiger crossing a road, snapped a photo with his mobile phone, and shared the image. Instantly, the news went viral in this part of India, and the state’s forest department launched an intensive cat hunt. Staff placed video camera traps in the area and engaged trackers to look for the tiger. They noted his pugmarks in the mud and claw marks on trees near where the teacher took the photo. Six days later, one of the camera traps recorded the cat. Based on that footage, forest conservators estimated the tiger to be a male about five to seven years old. The last time anyone saw a tiger in Gujarat was in 1992—tigers there having been heavily hunted and poached for their skins and body parts, which may have been sold in China. So state wildlife officials were in a celebratory mood, pleased that Gujarat—famed for its Gir National Park, the last enclave of Asiatic lions and leopards—had become the only state in India with “the lion, tiger, and leopard,” as Akshay Saxena, the principal chief conservator of forest wildlife for Gujarat, told a reporter with The Times of India. News of the tiger’s arrival stirred hopes that he would continue his westward trek and eventually reach Gir’s safe haven about 300 miles away. How he would react once he encountered some of the nearly 600 Gir forest lions and leopards was uncertain. “It all depends on the prey,” says Tara Pirie, a zoologist and big cat expert at the University of Reading, in the U.K., who has studied tigers in Sumatra. “If there are sufficient prey, then they should manage to coexist,” even if sharing a relatively small area.  *This image is copyright of its original author Gir Forest National Park encompasses 550 square miles of deciduous forests of teak, acacia, and banyan trees, some scrub jungle, and large patches of grassland. “It is suitable habitat for tigers and has Sambar deer, nilgai, wild boar,” Pirie says, as well as other animals that tigers and Asiatic lions hunt. Leopards, she notes, generally take small-to-medium-size prey, such as Axis deer. (Read more about Asia's lions, which live in one last place on Earth.) Lions and tigers used to coexist across many parts of India, as well as in western and Central Asia—usually in different habitats—until the end of the 1800s. By then, hunting and poaching had driven most populations to extinction. The animals also suffered from the loss of prey and habitat as farming, timber harvests, new roads, and settlements—and a growing human population—shrank their forest homes. 'This Is Our Tiger' Lions 101 How much do lions eat? When do they begin to roar? Find out how many pounds of meat they devour, how loud their roars can be, and whether they are endangered. After further studying the video of the tiger, B S Annigiri, the chief conservator of forests in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, told the Times of India that the tiger was actually well known to the staff at Ratapani. U. Prakasam, Madhya Pradesh’s principal chief conservator of forests, urged his counterparts in Gujarat to protect the cat and keep tabs on his movements. Discussions even began about how to protect the tiger’s trail between the two states in hopes that a female might follow and a new population emerge. (Related: "India's Tigers May Be Rebounding, in Rare Success for Endangered Species.") But all the rejoicing and speculation came to an abrupt end when, only two weeks after the teacher took the picture, the tiger’s carcass was found in Mahisagar forest, about six miles from where the forest department captured his image on a camera trap. His body lay on a slight incline, and some thought he’d fallen victim to a poacher. The initial exam indicated that this was unlikely, since “no physical injury was noticed on the tiger,” S K Srivastava, the chief conservator of forests in the Vadodara area of Gujarat, told The India Tribune. “Also, all 18 claws, four canine teeth, genital organ and skin were found to be intact.” It seemed more likely that the tiger had been poisoned. After all, the cat had attempted to attack a herd of cows a day after the camera trap recorded him, but people chased him away with shouts and cries, according to The Times of India. To determine if the tiger had indeed been poisoned, veterinarians collected samples from his carcass for analysis. But the lab results and a necropsy revealed a different cause: The tiger had simply died from starvation—his effort to catch a cow may have been his last attempt at a meal. Following the protocol of India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority, the carcass was burned, ensuring that the remains would not be sold. While news of the tiger’s sad and unexpected end disappointed tiger watchers in India and elsewhere, wildlife officials still take heart—and hope—from his heroic journey. (See tigers at these Indian national parks.) Other tigers may also disperse from Ratapani if they find the territory too crowded, and there’s good forest cover for them to do so to the south and northeast, where they’re more likely to find suitable prey, as well as a home in Panna Tiger Reserve, Prakriti Srivastava says. This tiger may have found enough to eat early in his travels, but his trek took him from the safety of the forest into largely human-dominated areas. For the few weeks he lived in Gujarat, he worried people who tended cows and inspired those who hoped once again to see tigers, lions, and leopards sharing a forest. It was not to be—at least, not this time. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/anima...l8BfG0bc4U Read that link, it has a video ^ *This image is copyright of its original author The tigress of Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra lounging with her cubs. NTCA to fund conservation activities in ‘tiger landscapes’ The Pilkhan tigress of Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in "Yavatmal district of Maharashtra" gave birth to its third litter of four cubs a few weeks ago bringing cheer among conservationists. Quote:There is more good news in store for them as the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to fund conservation activities in ‘tiger landscapes’, which essentially include tiger corridors, thereby exposing the seriousness of tiger conservation at the national level. And there are many of those corridors linking the tiger reserves in Maharashtra with Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR)  (our kawal) in the erstwhile Adilabad district in Telangana, where increased and more scientific monitoring of the movement of big cats is being envisaged, thanks to the NTCA initiative. (From there they can be connected to PNP (Papikonda NP of our state ) and there to Chattisgarh reserves and Odisha forests.... )After the Union Government gave its green signal to monitor tigers outside the reserves, the NTCA held the first Tiger Landscape-Level Coordination Meeting in Adilabad town on April 3, which had the top Forest Department officials from the two neighbouring States discussing coordination strategies on tiger conservation. As a result, the corridor linking Tipeshwar and KTR over a length of about 60 km would be recognised as a tiger landscape and monitoring of the tigers would most likely be extended to Telangana after crossing Penganga river on the inter-State border. The Tipeshwar Sanctuary is located about 10 km from Penganga river bridge which separates the two States on NH 44. There are all chances of big cats moving into Kawal from the sanctuary, as it is teeming with tigers. Spread over just 141 sq. km of dry deciduous forest in Pandharkawda tahsil, it accommodates about 18 tigers, including the four newly-born cubs. “There could be another corridor between Tipeshwar and Kawal as revealed by Maharashtra officials at the meeting,” recalled Adilabad District Forest Officer B. Prabhakar. Quote:The first one passes through Bela, Lokari, Indervelli and Vankatumma, while the second one is said to be through Talamadugu, Kinwat, Ajjar Vajjar and Boath,” he added. “The journey of tigers, as seen now, would be comparatively less fraught with dangers and there is plenty of prey available. For instance, a tiger from Tipeshwar can keep itself on the banks of Penganga river until it reaches a 20-hectare size island near Khogdur village in Bela mandal where it can find a good number of prey in the form of wild boar and nilgai,” the DFO pointed out. Proposals for the identification of these corridors under a tiger conservation plan are being readied. This would include plans for better surveillance in the given areas.
Omveer Choudhary
Finally got a chance to shot this new king of pench. This is a new male Tiger, good in size. Seems to be raiyakassa son. 8th April 2019. Pench National Park MP.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Rajarshi Banerji A FAMILY WALK IN THE AUTUMN MEADOW Nikon D 850; Nikon AFS 180-400 mm f4 VRII on bean bag Kanha Meadow Land of Forsyth, Dunbar Brander and Schaller Madhya Pradesh, India  *This image is copyright of its original author Ram Kumar Yadav Kanha Balwan 07 April 2019  *This image is copyright of its original author Jean Hollis 1st April 2019 Bheem crossing the road between Magdhi & Khitauli zones. A sight to behold !  *This image is copyright of its original author He really is a monster cat. 
Damn that’s a scary road block, Bheem is truly a monster. he has the shoulder height, he’s long with a huge head, chest girth and a huge neck. what a beast. I think you and @Pantherinae got me thinking twice about Dudhwa and kaziranga males as well. It’s always good to see what others think and after seeing recent pics of Gulrighat male. It’s really hard to say. I have a friend that will be visiting both Kaziranga and dudhwa this year, I can’t wait to hear from him.
he has been to almost every park in India, North, Central and South. his opinion will greatly matter. I still think it’s the Kaziranga males but we’ll see what he says.  *This image is copyright of its original author Off topic - Gulrighat male from a few days back. Tfs
My money would still be on the Terai Tigers, especially those Dudhwa boys.
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