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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. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. The other two are motionless.

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Sometimes you get the bird…

10,000 Birds

This is a roundabout way of introducing Australia’s most dangerous bird, because of course a country where an agonizing death lurk in every lake, river or law has a bird that can you kill you too. The chicks, which were about the size of chickens, had brown and fawn striped plumage reminding me of the colours of young wild boars.

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