Cute & cruel

[Atul Dhamankar]

Lion cub eating chital kill.
Gir NP
Nov. 2011
D7000
500mm f/4.5
1/400
ISO 400

[V S Sankar]

Beautiful picture sir.Eventhough Gir is a famous place such ;soth african; type events do happen here.You have documented it nicely.The innocense of a little one is decently captured.Keep up the good work.

Regards

[Gajanan Bapat]

Gr8 capture, u e lucky

Gajanan Bapat

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Gr8 capture, u e lucky

Gajanan Bapat

I would appreciate if we use proper english words. There are many people who read the posts in IndiaWilds and they appreciate that we are strict about usage of english words without abbreviations and slangs. Thanks for the understanding.

Sabyasachi

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice image.Details and action well documented.

I have altogether different feeling about the 'Caption' of the photograph-"Cute & Cruel".

Why 'Cruel' ?

"Nature is said to be red in tooth and claw,and life is precarious in the forest.The strong prey on the weak and the weak develop subterfuges and camouflages to protect themselves.But this eternal way of forest is due principally for quest for food.Man does not eat man,but he kills him for other purposes;and even where he does not kill the body,he kills the spirit."
-Jawarharlal Nehru

The lion cub is just following the eternal way of life in the forest for survival.It has no hatred against the Chital fawn.
Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I have altogether different feeling about the 'Caption' of the photograph-"Cute & Cruel".

Why 'Cruel' ?

"Nature is said to be red in tooth and claw,and life is precarious in the forest.The strong prey on the weak and the weak develop subterfuges and camouflages to protect themselves.But this eternal way of forest is due principally for quest for food.Man does not eat man,but he kills him for other purposes;and even where he does not kill the body,he kills the spirit."
-Jawarharlal Nehru

The lion cub is just following the eternal way of life in the forest for survival.It has no hatred against the Chital fawn.
Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

How eloquent Jawaharlal Nehru was!

To me the person whose spirit is killed, is a living dead. Poor indeed is a person who has lost his/her dreams.

We have to also understand that animals rarely kill more than they eat. A sambar or deer can easily know when the tiger is walking at a leisure pace and has no interest in killing. Where as, one cannot read a person's intent with any degree of certainity.

Sabyasachi