The Grasslands of Corbett National Park - Part 2. Corbett sunrise. Dhikala grasslands.
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3 or 4 tigers occupy the Dhikala grasslands due to the good numbers of cheetal and hog deer, these determine the number of tigers they can support. Wonderful grassland tiger preceded by a morning sunrise like no other.
James u explore jim corbett ur voice is good ur nature lover
Thank you Manish, I greatly appreciate that.
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Theres one place in India, very near to where I stay, Sunderbans, these tigers are born maneaters. U should visit there too.
We considered visiting Sunderbans, we were told chances of sighting was low. It's a tough environment for a tiger to live. I suppose humans are easy prey.
Humans are killed by tigers in Sundarbans ....it's pure forest
Hi James, you should visit Satpura national park next time you are in India. It's very easily accessible from Bhopal. Also watch this documentary on KZhead about urban tigers : The Secret Life of Bhopal Tigers. It's fascinating
We did visit Satpura during this trip. It is a truly lovely park here are the links to the three videos I produced of our drives Part One - Our first Satpura Drive with a good sloth bears and cub sighting kzhead.info/sun/rNVugMmKrJWHoX0/bejne.html Part Two - Our 2nd Satpura Drive we see a massive herd of Guar or Indian Bisson kzhead.info/sun/pbVtqMyilnqmhmg/bejne.html Part three - Our third Satpura Drive we see a fish eagle with large fish kzhead.info/sun/lcWqn8yPcH2tank/bejne.html Part four - A full day drive with a magnificent tigress scent marking her territory kzhead.info/sun/lr6lmqmLiKqigZs/bejne.html
@JamesRattray Saw all your 2023 series vedios. Great job. 3 decades back I used to live very close to bori park. Didn't know it has become a part of Satpura park.
@@media-rn6zc As you have said Satpura is a very special park, its tiger numbers will grow as the wildlife numbers increase. I envy you having lived close by. Thank you for your exchange of comments.
Can you please mention the safari dates of the video
We were in Corbett from 22nd March to 25th March 2023
Dhikala grass land good condition to 🐆 cheetah about kuno national park
How are the cheetah doing? I don't know if there were ever Cheetah in the foot hills of the Himalayas. Weren't they just on the plains? I am not sure. I don't fancy being a cheetah on the Corbett grasslands with those tigers about.
@@JamesRattray it's not there any cheetah. Actually cheetah is reintroduced in india in kuno national park. In 1950s they gone extinct.
Corbett and Bandipur have a reputation of employing the worst guides in whole India. Most of them are migrants from far away places and they have no idea of the local wildlife. For tiger spotting in Jim Corbett's areas, I prefer Chuka wildlife sanctuary. It is the same place where Corbett pursued the Chuka man-eater. It has a lot less tourists (🤩) and a lot more tranquiity. Plus the guides are locals. It also has very picturesque accomodations on the banks of the Sharda river, with a white sand beach. On another note, Corbett has a lot of man-eaters operating now. Tigers usually don't consider humans food and are afraid of people, but even a chance encounter which teaches them how frail a human is, can dynamically alter the preferred diet of those cats. Also, if a man-eating Tigress is able to raise a batch of three cubs on it's new acquired tastes, it's pretty much game over for the humans there. The addiction to human flesh soon spreads across the third generation of Tigers in the whole area.
I think your comment about being the worst guides, is a tough judgement, every guide has a different style. Both our guides were local, one was from the Gujjar community, who first met back in 2006, The other was a Garhwali from Kumaon. This area of India, the Shivalik and Gangetic plains landscape saw the greatest increase in tigers in India between 2018 and 2022. When I asked locally the reason for this, the response, was because everyone, all those living locally surrounding the wildlife parks realised protecting the wildlife, brought tourists from whom many now made their living. We saw a similar response to this when we visited the first three parks in the Central Indian Landscape, there was a recognition that there was a direct connection between prosperity and wildlife through tourism. Regarding a maneater's cubs, what did Jim Corbett say? In his book Man Eaters of Kumaon he wrote; "Another popular belief in connection with man-eaters is that the cubs of these animals automatically become man-eaters. This is quite a reasonable supposition; but is not borne out by the actual facts, and the reason why the cubs of a man-eater do not themselves become man-eaters is that human beings are not the natural prey of tigers, or of leopards. A cub will eat whatever its mother provides, and I have even known tiger cubs assisting their mothers to kill humans beings; but I do not know of a single instance of a cub, after it had left the protection of its parent, or after that parent had been killed, taking to killing human beings."
@@JamesRattray Yes it's a harsh judgement, but it's the popular perception. You're very lucky to have gotten a couple of local guides, the general public opinion of these two parks (Corbett and Bandipur) is quite negative. Yes you are right Corbett has written about cubs of maneaters not growing up to be maneaters. I guess this question can only be answered by a naturalist and until then people will be stuck between what the FD believes and what actually happens. But the interesting thing is, there are about two maneating Tigers operating in the triangle that is formed in between Nainital, Muhan and Ranikhet. Muhan is the most affected and has a night curfew in place. It's an extremely beautiful area, and thankfully is quite hard to get to (the roads are very narrow and the forest department doesn't allow any road widening and tree felling activity). The place still retains it's pristine beauty and is virtually untouched by the concrete man.
@@orion7326 One of our guides mentioned how dangerous it was where he lived. A thing us tourists don't even start to understand, as we travel in and out of these wild spaces. Thank you as always for your comments, all adding to a greater insight.