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1. Plz stop calling #IndianPariahDogs, ‘free ranging’ or ‘stray’. These are not stray but natural being, naturally found near human settlements, not domesticated but commensal cum symbiotic to us Homo sapiens not unlike bed bug, house lizard, house crow, black kite etc…
Likely reasons for survival:
1. She’s d top predator as Jhalana has no tigers
2. Females hv less conflict than males
3. Leopards hv g8 adaptability- can live anywhere, eat anything
4. Leopards/tigers r not fully solitary. She might’ve bn fed by mom/sibling/hubby here & there
In it, a young adult female leopard has lost one of her front legs and almost her entire tail in some conflict.
The point is not that she lost her limbs. In the wild, only the fittest survive and the unfit have no place. By breaking that myth, she has shown an entirely different side of herself something unimaginable and astonishing.
Recently, this female has also mated with a male. Forest officials first spotted her in the hills of Nahargarh in early 2025, when she was probably a little over one year old. Today she is nearly three years old.
One advantage for her survival in the wild is that in Jhalana almost all leopards rely on small prey such as peacocks, rabbits and other small reptiles. Large prey like sambar and nilgai are not abundant in this jungle, though some numbers are recorded.
This video has clearly proven that a leopard’s ability to survive and sustain itself is remarkably strong. #jhalanaleopardsafari #leopard #naturerules #bigcatsurvival
What do you all think about the future survival of this female?
So how to tell d gender of a tiger?
When it stalks an adult sloth bear, it’s almost always a male.
But here, it’s a female.
So what’s up with her?
She’s likely pregnant. To show dominance & create fear shes mock-stalking & making d area safe for cubs
Corrections:
1. Wild dogs (wild Canis familiaris), not wolves fed.
2. True, wild dogs getting commensal to bcm pariah dogs in cold Eurasia but only a fraction as low human population couldn’t support all dogs in ‘pariah niche’
3. India/Aus/old tropics were d refuge of ++
The dog exists because Ice Age hunters could not live on lean meat.
Wolves and people wanted the same animals, and for a long time nobody could explain why a band of hunters would feed a rival through a winter. In 2021 a team of Finnish researchers did the sums for the coldest stretch of the last Ice Age and found the answer in the human liver.
By late winter a reindeer or a horse has burned through its fat and is nearly all muscle. A person can only clear so much protein. Push it much past a third of what you eat and you get sick, then weak, then worse, however full your stomach is. So a hunting band took what it needed, the marrow, the brain, the tongue, every scrap of fat, and was left sitting on a heap of lean meat it could not safely finish.
A wolf can live on lean meat for months.
The surplus went to the pups by the fire. Nobody was competing for it. A few thousand winters of that and you have a dog.
So the oldest friendship on earth rests on one fact about your metabolism: you are the fat-eater in the partnership. Your ancestors dealt with the skinless chicken breast twenty thousand years ago by throwing it to the wolf.
Today the lean cut is on your plate with a health sticker on it, and his descendant gets a brown biscuit made of maize.
He was better fed in the Ice Age. So were you.
From 7 months old from a manhole in 2003 to a 23 years old man in 2026 !
Meet ‘Buchuma’ with just, but true, 7 months wild training from his mother/herd went on conquer the wild.
Kenya.
Well hey, Buchuma!
When he was just 7 months old, he was found alone in a manhole. Unable to survive without his mother, we took him into our care. 23 years later, he’s living in the wild. The visits may be few and far between – after a two year absence, he rocked up recently – but he hasn’t forgotten where ‘home’ is.
Buchuma – like all our ex-orphans – lives in a protected conservation area, patrolled by our teams on foot, by vehicle and by air.
His story: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o…
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Finally
A montane/alpine ‘ancient pariah’ dog from the Himalayas…
On the eve of #KukurTihar
OMG 😍
#IndianPariahDog #WildCanisFamiliaris
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Flees again ?
I guess this is for the first time she flees from the enclosure area.
Previously she’s freed by the officials themselves. But she went on to migrate even out of the Buxa forest & reached Assam.
Now that she knows the landscape a bit she’s d confidence to flee.
Yes. That’s due to the dominance of INBREEDING .
Inbreeding is the backbone of uniqueness/ecotype !
Sundarbans tigers thriving due to inbreeding.
A Corbett tiger looks like a Corbett tiger due to inbreeding.
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Who keeps the snow leopard fit & wild, & in check ?
Tibetan Mastiffs- a ‘landrace’ type ‘domesticated’ dog.
Since Tibetan Mastiff type dogs hv some extreme cold adaptation like endurance for hypoxia- they’re likely inherently native (even if feral),
Which Implies humans +++
Anyways, how to tell the gender of a tiger from his very eating behaviour?
Male tigers hv the testosterone fuelled psyche to not just see humans as food, even killing one.
When a young/prime & fit tiger kills a human for food or bcms a man-eater, it’s almost always a male !
The tiger Avenger, which reached the forests of Ashti taluka in Beed district of Marathwada from Tipeshwar, has now become part of the human-wildlife conflict. On the morning of 7 November, around 7:30 AM, this tiger killed a farmer named Pitya Malik Takale, who had gone into the forest to cut grass and was sitting on the ground cutting fodder for his cattle. The tiger dragged the farmer nearly 500 metres into the bushes. When other villagers reached the spot, the tiger fled. The incident occurred near Sonipathar hill, close to Lokhandwadi village.
It is surprising that this tiger had been roaming like a wanderer for more than a year, yet in all that time it had not attempted to attack any human. This incident calls for careful examination of how and under what circumstances it occurred, especially since the natural entry of a tiger into Marathwada was being viewed with hope. #himanwildlifeconflict #bigcatinmarathwada #tigerinmaharastra #bigcatconflict #bigcathabitat
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Hope these don’t reach Simlipal and dilute/spoil the black genes of the Simplipal tigers.
Apparently, black coats are a fitter coat than the yellow coat in the Simlipal forest.
Indian/Simlipal tigers have good inherent/ancient genetic diversity already.
Winter Hibernation/endurance/migration ecology of post (SW) monsoon cyclones (like Arnab, or any next ) that go N/NE:
The word ‘Deemak’ (termites) likely derived from the words like Deepak/Diwali as during Diwali they tend to emerge from ground sensing sudden moisture/rain ++
Behold this Textbook Beauty.. with that delicately refined pinhole EYE- the beauty of a cyclone !
Extremely beautiful.
And extremely dangerous.
SOS
#CycloneArnab (pronounced as: Ornab -due to Bangladesh/bengali nomenclature upon the cyclone)
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She’s sterilised.
Hence that obese.
Indian pariah dogs are ancient wild dogs, commensal cum symbiotic to Homo sapiens & naturally found in human settlements.
Wild Canis familiaris, pariah ecotype.
We just can’t sterilise wildlife & meddle with their natural selection !
அனைவருக்கும் இனிய தீபாவளி நல்வாழ்த்துகள் 🪔
Happy Deepawali everyone. Let there be light and love, kindness and peace
#HappyDeepavali #Deepawali2026
#HappyDiwali2026 #Diwali
Village dogs (domesticated canids) never able to steal snow leopard meal, irrespective of their number.
But by putting such pressure repeatedly, in phases, they may get some bits.
* Pariahs (undomesticated canids) r not found at such high altitudes or diluted with village dogs.
Captured in its natural high-altitude habitat, a solitary snow leopard displays intense defensive behavior as domestic dogs approach its bluesheep
#defendingitskill #snowleopardgram #dogsvsnowleopard #snowleopards #guardingkill
#snownleopard #greyghost #dogschasedbysnowleopard
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India pariah dogs r undomesticated canids (Wild Canis familiaris, pariah ecotype)
So hv right to hunt.
& always existed in forest- with their number in forest increasing spontaneously, as we travel in d past.
& colonised (hunting in) India @(for) 30k years ago (Nature 2016)+
A Life Saved at Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary 🦌❤️🌿
During my recent visit to Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary, accompanied by our knowledgeable guide, Mr. Ram Kumar, (Bird Guide & naturalist) we witnessed a truly touching incident.
While he was showing us some beautiful birds, we suddenly heard a Nilgai crying out from a distance. At that very moment, forest staff were clearing the road. Mr. Ram Kumar immediately alerted them and urged them to rush to the spot to investigate the distressing cries.
Upon reaching the location, they discovered a Nilgai calf that had been attacked by a dog and was in danger of losing its life. The forest staff acted promptly, rescued the injured calf, and transported it in an electric vehicle to a nearby hospital for treatment.
A precious life was saved because someone listened, cared, and acted in time. Heartfelt thanks to the Forest Department for providing electric vehicles that facilitate such timely rescues, and special appreciation to Mr. Ram Kumar, whose vast knowledge, keen observation, and experience helped ensure that this little life received a second chance.
Nature conservation is not just about admiring wildlife; it is also about protecting it when it needs us the most. 🌿🙏
#Sultanpurnationalpark #WildlifeConservation
#NilgaiRescue #HaryanaForestDepartment
#CompassionForWildlife
Which is the strongest bovine in the world ?
No Gaurs, no Bisons, no Yaks.
It’s a bull African Buffalo.
African buffalos r d strongest, stockiest, stamina-est bovine in d world with no weak points for predators to target.
*Indian Gaurs (largest bovine) hv weak neck & legs.
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Old is Gold.
This bull ‘african forest elephant’ might be old, lost his tusks but has got d wisdom, strength, size to go over the edge of the fastest flowing rapids of the world.
Here, he strikes gold- a rare nutrient rich plant found only at these fast flowing rapids
#NatGeo
Caspian tigers extinct!
& humans introducing Amur tigers (Siberian tigers) to the area of caspian tigers.
Not on d notion- ‘tiger is a tiger’ (as India doing with cheetahs)
But on d belief- caspian ones were actually the caspian ecotype (not subspecies) of the Amur tigers 👍
