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T42 aka Fateh, the resident male of Qual Ji zone gets lucky again. Named after the legendary Tiger-man of India late Fateh Singh Rathore this tiger is notorious for his short temper & has been responsible for giving nightmares to few tourists in the past. In March 2013 he lost his long time companion T37 aka Meera suddenly. She...

Ranthambhore Gen-next is ready. Ready to leave the identity of their erst while families & create one of their own. Thankfully forest department has also given them their own ‘T-XX’ identities & they would soon not be known as male/female cub of T-XX. They seem to be all over the place, perhaps some have already sep...

Noor Jehan with cub: Image courtesy Abhinav Dhar Once again the proverb is proven correct. Couple of days back had come across a photograph taken by Abhinav Dhar in Ranthambhore almost 2...

The obsession with tigers so to speak, not to photograph or document, but just to watch, feel and experience their might, stems from a video that was shown to me maybe 16-18 yrs ago at boarding school. Strangely the name Machli got stuck in my head.(It was a documentary on T-16’s mother Machli ). It seemed odd then to kno...

Legendary Tigress Machli I Have ruled this landscape for almost a decade & made this park and it’s people famous. I am one of the oldest surviving tiger in the wild & this is my story. While much has already been written, televised and spoken about me, this is me talking straight from heart. My name is Machli and I am her...

It is always sad when a tiger dies, with numbers dwindling by the day and poaching, human-animal conflict at an all time high, we can ill afford fatalities to the feline population. It is perhaps sadder when it is a tiger you have seen and come to really like. T37, the resident female of the Kuwalji area of the Ranthambore Natio...

Saheb(T28) has always believed in free meals and preferred to snatch share in kill made by females in his territory. sort of protection tax. Incidentally all three females in his territory were blood relatives T16 aka Machli and her two daughters T19 and T17. Both the sisters were attracted to this lanky male therefore didnâ�...

His love for wildlife made him quit a well settled career & luxurious city life to settle in a remote place called Tala, close to Bandhavgarh National Park. A Chartered Accountant by qualification, Rajvardhan Sharma is the owner of famous ‘ Nature Heritage Resort’ located close to Tala gate.’Raj Ji’ as...

Barely few hours back, while compiling my daily sighting report, I had received report of her sighting & now comes the news of her death. A beautiful and healthy tigress who was probably 6-7 years old is suddenly dead. T37, resident tigress of Quaal Ji zone no 9 was found dead today...

The news of her giving birth to cubs brought joy to all & given her flamboyant nature people were expecting her cubs to be like mother.However she had something else in mind, sometime during monsoon of 2012 she left the comforts of lake area & shifted her cubs to Kachida valley, the reasons best know to her only....