Dholes and the jungle – TATR

[Subhash Shrivastava]

Canon SX60 HS, 1/60, f/5, 20 mm, ISO-100. Cropped from top, bottom & right for presentation and to remove overexposed sky.

Clicked in TATR core, after getting down from Jamun Bodi area, on 28-Jan-2015. I expected to see them in groups of 20+. In TATR, they are becoming rarer by the day, now seen not more than 3 to 4 in a group, if at all seen in a group. In TATR, their decline is the most perceptible phenomenon.

There was this male in its splendid coat of fur, in shiny shades of Brown to white. He was busy searching the ground and was following a female. All of sudden they took a big loop around us, appear behind my gypsy and then the 3rd member also came to the road. This picture also depicts the typical TATR jungle-scape.