After a long day of hunting tiger, there she was, just laying by the road cooling her ass off in some dirty water. We had seen a tiger a couple hours earlier, a male, hiding in the bushes next to the road. It dashed across the road and was gone before my brain was able to take it all in and get a picture. But this tiger was here for the show. A fantastic beast. And although I did not get to blast her into tiger heaven and wear her hide back as a fabulous cloak (you'd think SOMEONE during all of the incredible amount of planning required for this safari would have told me that, wouldn't you?!) it was an amazing experience to stand there next to such a tremendously dangerous and disinterested animal. She really could not give a shit that a jeep full of gawking food was 15 feet away, and after a few minutes of us disturbing her peace, she slowly stood up and pounced up a sheer rock cliff and disappeared.
The collar is a GPS tracker. Hundreds more pics of Ranthambhore in the flickr set: Go to flickr set
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