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Mike Curtis
- Mar 20, 2018
- 3 min
Farewell to a magnificent tiger. A victim of human-animal conflict
Sadly it's become necessary to update this post. On March 20th I heard the sad news from Ranthambhore that T28, also known as Star Male or Sitara, died of natural causes. Tragically, it was not natural causes. While the truth is sometimes hard to establish the events seem to have been thus: T28 was old but still in good physical condition. He'd been displaced from his territory around the lakes and had taken a less productive territory on the edge of the park. Like many t
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Mike Curtis
- May 21, 2016
- 2 min
Indian wildlife gallery updated
So I've added a few images from the 2016 Ranthambhore trip to the Indian Wildlife gallery, please have a look. I thought I would start this post with a pretty rare sighting and image of a male Indian Leopard which we were lucky enough to see early one morning. I say lucky, but that's not true. We had just entered Route 1 of Ranthambhore, which at that moment was lacking tigers, when our fabulous guide and friend Mahesh Choudhary heard the a single Peacock alarm call (Their
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Mike Curtis
- May 20, 2016
- 1 min
103 not out
It's been a week since we left Ranthambhore National Park during which time we clocked up our 100th Ranthambhore game drive, spread over 7 visits. We were quite lucky this year as the light was very good, key to that I think was that the atmosphere was not too dusty, and we were also a month earlier. We again had regular, good sightings which is not down to luck. The key here is to enter the park with a good guide, and we have always used one of the very best - Mahesh Chau
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Mike Curtis
- May 29, 2014
- 1 min
T39 and cubs UPDATE
Good news about T39. Two days after our fantastic sighting a single jeep briefly sighted T39 with two cubs, which was quite a surprise as our previous observation of her teets suggested she only had one cub. I guess I'll have to study my images in more detail to see if there is a second, less prominant, teet present. We did stake out her new den site for an entire afternoon in temperatures approaching 45 centigrade but to no avail. Happily for us we did encounter the cub's
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