On April 9th, 2011, two young adult tigers - male Sultanpur (T24) and female Mala (T3) - are found mating on a rocky plateau along the Kalapani Anicut.   Suddenly, tigress Mala sta...

It's dusk. A female tiger lies asleep in a shallow ravine. She wakes, stretches and saunters slowly towards four cubs still feeding on the carcass of a chital buck she brought down that morn...

I saw my first gaur or Indian bison in Bandhavgarh after many years. The last one I saw was in the early summer of 1998 in the meadows of Thauni, a huge old male, blind in one eye. After this si...

The fog is thick and heavy in Bandhavgarh and the breaking dawn seems to make it even thicker, partially obscuring the trees as we drive down the C route into the park. The forest is silent &nda...;

I am drawn to the commotion of a crowd of tourists as they wait with baited breath, watching tigress Jaya lap water calmly from a deep pool.  It’s early morning and as I pause to ...

As I step into the cool pre-dawn morning air, I am struck by the overwhelming silence of the Bandhavgarh forest.  While there is no sign of life shortly before the sun rises to warm the for...