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Originally Posted by maddy42 Well as tiger talk is on just had a true story which is from my pov and not one of those folklores.
This was when i was amazed by this beautiful animal and the pictures marvels me. | Maddy,
I come from a family of very well renowned Shikari's of Hyderabad, who later turned to conservationist.
What I am narrating is a true story:
300 kilometers from Hyderabad in Adilabad. It was summer of 1957, a stream had dried up near a local village. Buffaloes were there drinking up the last remnants of water, one buffalo went a bit deeper and got stuck in the slush and her struggle took her further deeper.
As dusk was an hour away all help was mobilized and villagers gathered and about 12 men tried their best to pull out the stuck buffalo with ropes, but the vacuum created under her was like she was stuck by glue.
All attempts made and failed, they abandoned it. My father and uncle were there too with their hunting rifles, they had anticipated a tiger to come attracted by the buffalo's loud bellowing.
Just a few moments before total dusk, one huge male did arrive, assessed the situation from the fringe of the dried up stream which was about 12 feet wide... after a bit of prancing it leapt on the stuck buffalo in the middle part of the dried up stream, lodged its teeth and nails into it and used his own weight to pull the buffalo out and within seconds he propelled himself and the buffalo and was on the other side with the buffalo hanging below him.
My father and uncle were to engrossed and shocked to see this feat and later realized they did not even remember that they were carrying loaded and cocked rifles.
There is nothing that can match the combined strength, intelligence and beauty of the Royal Bengal Tiger. |