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...;

During the morning hours Vijaya has brought her cubs to the sight of a huge male sambar kill. There is enough meat to fill her and her three tiny cub's bellies for several days. The kill lie...

Winter lingers in Bandhavgarh, the morning is thick with a heavy clinging fog. A tigress has been inside the village beyond the park boundary and partaken of a small cow kill. She's eaten al...