An uneasy calm
Ranthambhore National Park, India
Bears and Tigers normally give a wide berth to each other but there have been occasional confrontations. A sloth bear can give a very tough fight to even a big male tiger often forcing the male tiger to retreat. We have seen two subadult males first chase a sloth bear into the dense undergrowth but a moment later the two subadult tigers ran out of the dense undergrowth with the bear in hot pursuit. In this particular instance, the famous tigress, Noor gave a wide berth to the bear
Play time
Bandhavgarh National Park
A 4 month old tiger cub is about to jump onto its two siblings who are playing in a waterhole. Cubs at this age are very playful and develop useful life skills like stalking, pouncing, swatting and climbing
There he goes again
Serengeti, Tanzania
The expression on the lioness’ face says it all. it is always a pleasure to photograph Lion cubs which are not only cute but also amongst the most expressive and active young animals.
Sibling love
Serengeti, Tanzania
Darling - can you stop this PDA... they are watching
A tender moment between a father & son
Masai Mara, Kenya
The male lion had just dragged a zebra kill into the bush. Normally male lions aren’t too fond of being disturbed at a kill and a cub for all its playfulness can get rewarded with a snarl or a light slap
Forlorn
Masai Mara, Kenya
A male lion looks at his brother mating with a lioness around 200 metres away. They presumably had fought over mating rights with the lioness and this male had lost out gaining a scar in the process.
The king of the jungle
Phinda Game Reserve, South Africa
The male lion was doing what he normally does the during the day- sleeping. Suddenly we saw a coalition of three male cheetahs in the distance making their way towards this lion. The Lion and the Cheetahs saw each other at the same time. We were positioned perfectly to get the lion running at full steam towards us as he chased the Cheetahs away
Blue Eyes
Masai Mara, Kenya
A big male with blue eyes is rare to see. We just tried to predict the exact direction the leopard would walk and we waited some distance away from the paparazzi. The leopard obliged as he walked straight towards us
Protecting its kill
Londolozi, South Africa
One of those standard Leopard on a tree with a kill pictures but this time there was something about the sky and the light on the Leopard which made the whole scene surreal. The Impala would have obviously begged to differ.
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