{"id":521,"date":"2022-08-23T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2022-08-24T08:52:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T08:52:05","slug":"a-tiger-approaching-its-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/a-tiger-approaching-its-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"A tiger approaching its kill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tigers are opportunistic feeders and at an average, a tiger kills an animal a week. Depending upon its size, the kill may last a single meal, if it\u2019s a small animal like an average Rhesus Macaque, or it may last 3-4 days, if the animal killed is as large as a full grown Sambar Deer. When the kill cannot be eaten in a single sitting, tigers hide it in thick understory and cover the carcass with leaf litter to save it from scavengers like vultures.<br>A few days ago, a Sambar Deer was killed by a family of tigers and hidden in thick undergrowth on the edge of a forest stream. The mother and her cubs were seen over next two days, returning back to the kill and on one such occasion, this footage of a sub adult male tiger approaching the spot where the kill was hidden was obtained by our Chief Naturalist Manoj Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2xDbO-rbM0?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tigers are opportunistic feeders and at an average, a tiger kills an animal a week. Depending upon its size, the kill may last a single meal, if it\u2019s a small animal like an average Rhesus Macaque, or it may last 3-4 days, if the animal killed is as large as a full grown Sambar Deer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-11-e1661250133639.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}