Split seconds
Masai Mara, Kenya
While the herd of Wildebeests wasn’t huge, the action more than made up for it. A crocodile tried to get a Zebra which escaped - and as if that wasn’t enough to cause chaos in the ranks of the wildebeest and the Zebras, there was a young male lion on the opposite bank who kept charging till he almost got kicked in the face by a young Zebra.
A giant silhouette
Masai Mara, Kenya
The sunsets in the Mara are spell bounding and these giants make for the most beautiful image.. #GTphototip: We had to get down low inside the vehicle to get them against a sky rendered orange by the setting sun. Shutter speed was at 1/8000 sec and f-stop at 5.6
Standing Tall
Masai Mara, Kenya
A cheetah surveys the territory around him early in the morning looking for potential prey. We eventually saw the cheetahs (a mother and 3 grown cubs) make a kill of a Thomson’s gazelle in a typical high speed chase.
Who gets the lion’s share?
Masai Mara, Kenya
These two are a pair of Mara’s older lions - Olbarnoti (left) and Lolparpit. We reached the spot only to find them sleeping next to a wildebeest who they would have killed probably early in the morning. After a 45 minute wait, both started feeding on the kill. There was no growling - guess when you have grown old together and fought many a fight shoulder to shoulder, you definitely learn to share the spoils.
Tenderness
Ranthambhore National Park, India
While most of life just passes by as a blur, some days just get etched in your memory with an ink which seems to be completely indelible. The 3rd of June 2014 was one such day. It had started off as an ordinary day in Ranthambhore. It seems like it happened only yesterday. A sighting which the previous 17 years of visiting wildlife parks had convinced me was the rarest of rare - a sighting which symbolised everything tender which is there about a tiger....a tigress (Noor) carrying her cub across a dry river bed. Whatever we write about it is not going to do justice to the sighting - but we will attempt via a blog on our upcoming website
Spin Dry, The Tiger Version!
Ranthambhore National Park, India
Suddenly the skies had opened up with the heaviest rain we had ever experienced. We got soaked in a fraction of a second and while everyone else rushed out of the park, we waited for the rain to let up in the shelter of a forest outpost. And that is when we were rewarded with Arrowhead’s (famous tigress) own version of spin dry
A mother’s love
Ranthambhore National Park, India
They said she was a shy mother- a tigress who had been pushed from her prime areas of forest by her own sister. She was a mother for the first time and she was very shy of showing her first litter. But if she was shy, we were determined. For 18 days, we scoured every inch of her area with no luck. There was not even a single pug mark of her three cubs who were 5 months old. We focussed on nothing but trying to get one sighting of her. Our determination had turned into obsession. And then one early morning this happened...a shy mother had decided to reward our determination and this sighting remains etched in our minds even even today. Her name was Krishna and she was never shy after that day.
Solve the puzzle
Bandhavgarh National Park , India
We thought two heads should have 8 legs!! The famous Tigress Kankatti's 4 month old cubs strike a cute pose for us one early morning in India's Bandhavgarh National Park.
Fending for her cubs
Bandhavgarh National Park , India
A tigress and a mother of three small cubs drags a spotted deer to feed her young ones. A mother's life can be very hard as she has to hunt, feed and protect her cubs from other males & Leopards until they are 2 years old
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