Tiger Beat

Yes we did see our tiger at Ranthambore and it was a mighty sight! After a long wait, apparently tigers like to show around 4.30 pm for tea, a beautiful specimen of the family of the Lake appeared. She was no more than 20/30 yards from us in the open jeep so it was awesome and a little weird. Apparently we were making Split’s acquaintance, a young female whose mother’s, the original tiger of the Lake, is now at the ripe old age of 16 after having laid at least five litters of cubs. Unfortunately we were told that poachers still manage to enter the reserve and sometimes they kill the tigers to sell them to the Chinese (damn the Chinese they really are evil!) who use all of them from the teeth to the nails, to the fur to their organs used for their medicine.

In any case the tigers are managing to repopulate and now there are between 35 and 40 and more cubs will be born soon. Our Split almost let us watch kill a deer, in reality she truly was not interested in us but she was fixated on four deer very close by. As soon as the deer though became aware of her presence (apparently they have poor eyesight and they need to smell the tiger) they made a really strange sound, they warning call and at that point our tiger, spotted, looked really pissed off and walked way growling. I suggested we tossed a baby ,who in another nearby jeep had started waling and disturbing the whole awesome moment, to the tiger to compensate for the escaped deer. It was an Indian baby, there are so many anyway…..