When the summer sets in, the tigers prefer to stay close to the sources of water. Being carnivores, they frequently need to drink water, especially in the hot weather. When a kill is made, it is often dragged close to a convenient water source, like a stream or a waterhole.
Recently a tigress and her three cubs had made a Spotted Deer kill and kept the carcass in a patch of thick undergrowth close to a forest stream. While on a safari with the lodge guests, our Chief Naturalist Manoj Sharma recorded the tigress crossing the stream, on her way back to the kill.
Tigress crossing a stream
