Tiger Pugmark     


Tiger territorial mark


There is a tiger up front


Transfer to an elephant

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The Tigers.

The tiger is the most beautiful of all the big cats. I would love to photograph a tiger while I was in India. It should prove to be harder than I thought. I saw many traces of tigers, but it was only towards the end of my visit that I finally saw and photographed the tiger.

The tiger is so big and so strong that it can hunt and kill all animals in the forest except one. The elephant is too powerful for it. Sometimes it is trying to get hold of a baby elephant, but the adult elephants will protect their young, so it may very well go wrong for the tiger. When the tiger chases it cannot afford to fart as it reveals where he is. It will sneak up on the prey and then run and grab it. He should also beware of the monkeys. When a monkey discovers a tiger, it will climb to the top of a tree, where it feels safe. There, it will begin to scream quite loudly. The other animals hear this, and they know there is a danger. Before they take away, they try to discover where the tiger is so they do run away from it. It is not every day a tiger hunt that it gets a catch. When he does make a catch he begin to eat as much as he possibly can. He is truly hungry because it has been about ten days since he ate last time. When he has eaten he can relax and digest near the remains of prey. He must be careful that a hyena or jackal does not come and steal the rest from him. When resting, he can fart as much as he wants. He will not leave the site before everything is eaten up.