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Good sighting.. Lucky...

Don't kink shame ppl

Lol. Vikings did that one reportedly... Turns out no they don't either 😅 everyone is lying to themselves!

This is a problem with India... You've got 5000 of them in in a little villahe sized area & ready of Gujarat is holding thulla. There's no attempt to move some of them, or even emulate this on the hundred of other small grassland patches.

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The Big Seven of India! ....................................................................................

It was a popular hunting pet. I think it's the best of the set, she even used an Asiatic cheetah. The location is Chandra Mahal of Jaipur Palace, a place that probably had seen a sight exactly like that few hundred years ago! There is currently a population in Maharastra's Gadchiroli as well...

Here are some specimens from India Song by Karen Knorr that explores the enigma that is India & her people's cultural ties & close cohabitation with wild animals. The blurry boundaries between her wilderness & civilisation, fancy aristocracy of yore keeping all sorts of wildlife within palace...

A sloth bear named Buddhu a lived for a few years at Juli Kisan's home in Lakhapada, Odisha. The young bear was born wild, probably orphaned & one day wandered into the village following a herd of goats. He never left & had lived with the family ever since. He was rescued for...

1. Iran has less than 100 cheetahs (only ±50 identified) now, spread over a HUGE area! They're not in a position to give away... 2. Gujarat successfully grounded the lion reintroduction to MP by sheer stubbornness! They won't exchange lions with a foreign country, that also an Islamic one...

I said he documented a lot of natural history, which is true. I didn't say he founded PET@. Anyways, that tweet is incorrect.The 27% increase in Asiatic lion numbers (411 to 523) is old news... Local census, August 2017, pegged the number at minimum 650.

Baburnama has some natural history, but is totally eclipsed by Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri. Jahangir pioneered it in India! He was a great patron & the Mughal-Rajput miniature painting was much more accurate than British crap! Ustad Mansoor's work... But these were all about contemporary wildlife &...

That's not a Ganges shark. That's a Bull shark... We have those, but off the coast, especially in Andaman archipelago. This is a Ganges shark (locally called Kamote) specimen; Proper habitat-shots of it are very hard to come across! Because they are critically endangered & only left in remote...

Nope! Feel free to show.............

The word "white tiger" is misdirecting. The body colour varies from snow-white.. ..to cream.. ..to what you can call dirty-white (like dirty blonde in people).. ..to pale (like them). As NO SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THEIR GENES could have been done, we don't know whether these are classic white...

Exact location wasn't disclosed because of their safety, somewhere in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve... But there are ferns visible in the first picture. Mudimalai-Bandipur tract doesn't have enough altitude. The lush vegetation in the second photo, points at far western part of the landscape. My...

The second pic, one with both of them together, was taken several months later, by another person. They were all over the news!

That's halfway... Once the population reduced, the genepool recieved a hit. We saw such a crisis in the first decade of 21st century. When it starts increasing again, then these kind of specimens can be seen, because a larger present population came from fewer animals & share genes to some...

I guess most Indians don't know this but reeaaally should... India is the only country in the world that has black tigers, white tigers & (one) golden tiger in the wild! Black or melanistic tigers are presently found only in Simlipal Tiger Reserve of Odisha (& two brothers were recently born...