{"id":1729479,"date":"2017-11-01T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkthewilderness.net\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2024-11-03T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T12:26:16","slug":"sibling-play-in-tadoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/sibling-play-in-tadoba\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibling Play in Tadoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Choti Tara, one of the much sought after Tigress in Tadoba National Park, play with her cubs would have brought tears of joys to any die hard wildlife enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p>Soon it reached a point where the Tigress could not be at the receiving end of her sons teeth and claws and she growled at him in anguish.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing their mother not too happy with them, the boys turned their attention on each other.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1740304\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 970px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1740304 size-full\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"960\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Sibling Play in Tadoba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But mom still kept a close watch while the boys played. I guess she was too protective of these bundles of energy.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time I saw sub-adult Tiger cubs play in the open grasslands in any of the National Parks that I had visited, and I was just too excited to stop photographing.<\/p>\n<p>Soon Mom had enough of the boys and she dashed off into the tall grass away from the cubs.<\/p>\n<p>With mom putting up the disappearing act, the cubs played for sometime and I captured it in the feature image (first picture).<\/p>\n<p>Soon they lost interest and I photographed one of the siblings taking a well deserved break.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class='mb-center maxbutton-6-center'><span class='maxbutton-6-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-6 maxbutton maxbutton-subscribe-to-our-free-newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/subscribe\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><span class='mb-text'>Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Choti Tara, one of the much sought after Tigress in Tadoba National Park, play with her cubs would have brought tears of joys to any die hard wildlife enthusiast. Soon it reached a point where the Tigress could not be at the receiving end of her sons teeth and claws and she growled at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":2196996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tiger-cubs-playing-in-Tadoba-F.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Sibling Play in Tadoba","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[8454,5858],"class_list":["post-1729479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-tadoba","tag-tiger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}