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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

10,000 Birds

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. I am curious to see whatever awaits us in the Nagzira Tiger Reserve.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

10,000 Birds

On her own, two months ago, she took down a big, old and experienced Indian Boar , who already had some old tiger claw scars. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' They are 20 months old, as big as their mother, but not as heavy. The fourth one is missing – she is the adventurer among them.

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