Tiger’s again

This morning while going on the safari, we caught a carcass of a large gaur (indian bison) only 20% eaten by a tiger. Unlike last time, this dead body is very close to the safari game track. I know the tiger will come back tonight to eat the rest, so right now the plan is to stay there all night in the forest and hope to film/shoot the tiger when it comes to eat the kill. However, I need a special permit to stay there past 7pm and been trying to get that all day today. Let’s hope I get it from the forest department and then things will be rocking 🙂

Too many good things happening here. Yesteday we got to see one tiger for few seconds and two leopards for a good 30 min. More updates tomorrow.

17 Comments

  1. 1pari · March 30, 2005 Reply

    nice

    kool …

    hope u get permission .

    cheers

  2. shradha · March 30, 2005 Reply

    wow!
    hope u get the special permit and hey, do take care!!

  3. tariquesani · March 30, 2005 Reply

    And when you have time apart from all the exciting stuff – get me some contact in the bird rehab center. Summer is here we will have birds orphans and injuries…

  4. deepsan · March 30, 2005 Reply

    the plan is to stay there all night in the forest and hope to film/shoot the tiger when it comes to eat the kill
    where do you plan to setup? on a tree?

  5. klooloola · March 30, 2005 Reply

    what if it prefers its food fresh?

    surely the tiger will find you will be tastier than days old meat?

  6. eppendorfs · March 30, 2005 Reply

    Whoa…. thats enticingly scary 🙂
    I was imagining standing in front of the tiger , like one of the Ruskin Bond stories 🙂
    I have seen some infrared cameras, and of course some very beautiful pics taken from those cameras… but surprisingly , the pics were not night vision pictures, but for more artistic versions. i wonder whats the real use of a infrared camera.
    Just curious, but are man eating tigers all killed by the forest guards/officials?

  7. noelladsa · March 30, 2005 Reply

    hey there ,just went there again.Todays diet was more fruit , some beef and some electrol again.
    Sent you an email id of one of the volunteers to your yahoo id.

  8. raghav · March 30, 2005 Reply

    Whoa!!! Thatz crazy beautiful… Careful Buddy…

  9. tariquesani · March 31, 2005 Reply

    Thanks a lot lady – I owe you one for this 🙂

  10. unitedrulez · April 1, 2005 Reply

    Tiger’s again

    Hi Kalyan,

    Is it possible for a trek in your place, I checked at JRT Bandipur, I was told I should wait till about August for the trek, as the place is dry now (it was extremely dry when I had visited last week). Keep those blogs coming, the more I read your notes, the more I think of getting into wildlife photography actively

  11. admin · April 2, 2005 Reply

    Eventually waited in a open jeep

  12. admin · April 2, 2005 Reply

    Re: what if it prefers its food fresh?

    Apperently tigers love rotten meat. The rotten meat is softer, easier to digest and very tasty for them.

  13. admin · April 2, 2005 Reply

    Luckly as of now, there are no man eating tiger’s in south india. So it’s pretty safe.

  14. admin · April 2, 2005 Reply

    Re: Tiger’s again

    Come over and we can trek anytime here. Things are lot more green here compared to bandipur and we could leave early morning and come back by 9 – 10. It will be too hot after that.

  15. unitedrulez · April 11, 2005 Reply

    Re: Tiger’s again

    Hi Kalyan,

    I work for a magazine called “Better Photography”. Need to get in touch with you about an opportunity, how do I reach you.

    Regards

    Srikanth

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