summer season sightings

End of march marks the beginning of summer season this also means increase in tiger sightings because of the lack of water in the jungle, so here are some pictures i got in the past week.

UNIQUE TIGER BEHAVIOR

When we go to the jungle we see scratch markings on trees which are done by tigers and a very frequently asked question is that how the tigers manage to scratch the tree at such a height which is sometimes as high as 15 feet!! Well these two pictures I took have all the questions answered, we saw this big male tiger jump high grab the tree very high and then scratch mark it, in both the pictures we can see that the tiger is actually hanging on to the tree and is high above the ground.

The curious Tiger and the curled up pangolin!

Pangolin the scaly ant eater!!!

PANGOLIN AND TIGER

Pangolin is the rarest animal one can come across in the central indian jungle, and here I saw this Pangolin all rolled up like a soccer ball and being rolled around by two sub-adult Tigers who were just too curious about it. They tried biting did not succeed they tried to use claws still no use, one of the tigers got tired and left it alone the second Tiger still continued to try killing it, after some time even this tiger left the pangolin alone this is when it took its head out and started to escape, the tiger saw this and pounced on the pangolin and it again rolled up like a ball.The tiger did not manage to kill this pangolin till I was there. This was my luckiest day out in the bush so far, a once in a lifetime sight may be.