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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 593 W: 55 N: 1271]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (4842) | For someone that talks tiger conservation all the time, it sems very funny that all I end up doing is posting elephant shots!Well, all I can say is that when I see tigers, I forget to click them!They're simply so beautiful!
And tiger conservation because if tigers are there, we'll at least have our jungles, else they'll go, too!
Corbett has mentioned tigers and elephants together, quite often, the most interesting one being in Jungle Lore.Usually these two animals avoid confronting each other.In this encounter he talks about there being no reason for the fight apart from the fact that what had started as a lark- by a pair of mating tigers when an elephant tried to shoo them away-developed into a real fight.
(I've witnessed,or should I say heard, elephant-Tiger fights when I was a child. They were terrible.When tigers roar with anger, it is indeed a terrifying noise, and when the screaming of a maddened elephant is added to this, it is absolutly nerve-wracking!)
In Corbett's tale,the elephant was found dead on the high banks, by the local people.
At the Dhangadi Gate which leads to Dhikala, there is a museum of sorts,and in it you can find a dead tiger stuffed, which was the victim of one of the many other fights between these two most powerful animals (I've got that shot in the Workshop) |
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