{"id":254,"date":"2019-11-26T07:17:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T08:30:23","slug":"big-male-tiger-at-corbett-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/big-male-tiger-at-corbett-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Male Tiger at Corbett Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger is the largest cat in the world. A <strong>male Bengal Tiger<\/strong> has an average length of 9 to 10 feet, including the tail and similarly, a female can be as big as 7.5 to 8.5 feet. The largest Tiger ever recorded in the foothills of the Himalayas, in the present-day state of Uttarakhand, was &#8216;Bachelor of Pawalgarh&#8217;, shot in the winter of 1930 by Jim Corbett and measured at 10 feet 7 inches over the curves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-255 size-medium\" title=\"Male Tiger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Male-Tiger-P1280521-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"Male Tiger\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Male-Tiger-P1280521-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Male-Tiger-P1280521-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-1024x553.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Male-Tiger-P1280521-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Male-Tiger-P1280521-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-1536x830.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Male-Tiger-P1280521-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-215x116.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Male-Tiger-P1280521-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Male-Tiger-P1280521-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The average weight of Bengal Tigers can be around 180 to 250 kg for males and 100 to 160 kg for females. Summer is a very good time to look for the Tigers, as the visibility through the ground vegetation improves. As the summer advances, the water sources dry up. Tigers have a great need for water in the hot weather and are usually seen near the few remaining water sources like waterholes and river valleys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This massive male Tiger was recently recorded by <strong>Jim&#8217;s Jungle Retreat Chief Naturalist, Manoj Sharma<\/strong>, in fading light of the late evening, on one of the drives to Corbett Tiger Reserve. It was seen sitting in a small waterhole in a dry riverbed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Naturalist Logs | Big Male Tiger at Corbett Tiger Reserve Copyright Manoj Sharma\" width=\"697\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIFiDQh0hCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the weather turns more and hotter, May and June are the best months to look for Tigers in Corbett Tiger Reserve. Located close to <strong>Jim&#8217;s Jungle Retreat<\/strong> are Dhela and Jhirna Tourism Zones of the reserve, areas that offer some of the best Tiger-viewing opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger is the largest cat in the world. A male Bengal Tiger has an average length of 9 to 10 feet, including the tail and similarly, a female can be as big as 7.5 to 8.5 feet. The largest Tiger ever recorded in the foothills of the Himalayas, in the present-day state of Uttarakhand, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,77,62,71],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jimsjungleretreat","tag-corbett-tiger-reserve","tag-jhirna-tourism-zones","tag-jims-jungle-retreat","tag-manoj-sharma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}