Kanha National Park, June 2009.
The tigress stops to investigate some sounds perhaps, and showed her necklace. Apparently she has been the subject of a research project a couple of years ago.
EOS 40D+70-300IS. 1/100; f/5.6; ISO 200. slight crop.
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Kanha National Park, June 2009.
The tigress stops to investigate some sounds perhaps, and showed her necklace. Apparently she has been the subject of a research project a couple of years ago.
EOS 40D+70-300IS. 1/100; f/5.6; ISO 200. slight crop.
A nice image, perhaps needs about a third of a stop more light. I wish they would attach smaller radio collars.
Apana
Hi Amit,
Nice pose. Would have loved more eye contact and some more light. Surely the collar taken out the wild feeling from the tiger .
Regards,
Mrudul Godbole
I hate these radio collars as they look like dogs. I remember the first day we had put a belt around the neck of our dog. He screamed, cried and howled for a long time. So we had to take it off. Later he got used to it. I am all for research but found this collar to be very humiliating for a tiger.
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Yeah, collars really don't gel with tigers- they do look unsightly. But we have to accept thats important from a conservation/research point of view. By the way, talking about humiliation, do you know that it has frequently been observed that the social status of a collared animal has actually been observed to have risen! Many lionesses, elephants, etc. have been known to flaunt the collar as an ornament and the other animals in their pride/herd have been found to have new respect for them!
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Aditya
I don't think they would flaunt it, however if there is any real study then I stand corrected. Would love to have details.
I feel very strongly about Radio collars. There has been technology where you can introduce a chip under the skin and it does a better job than Radio collars. However, I am not sure whether it would be ethically right. Also I hate the way people clip a piece of the ear of elephants and rhinos for the purpose of identification.
People put a radio collar on animals like elephants, but after a while they are unable to track. One elephant radio collared in mudumalai was found to have reached coimbatore. And this was found by accident.
We need to find out a better device and mode of tracking than these radio collars. I am sure there can be a better method if the scientists put their brains into it.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi
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