Tiger snarling
Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India
"As George Schaller said in his study 'The Deer and the Tiger' (1967), ‘Few living mammals have become creatures of myth in the minds of man to as great an extent as has the tiger. Its large size, nocturnal habits, solitary nature, and elusiveness, coupled with its reputation as the 'embodiment of devilish cruelty, of hate and savagery incarnate' as Inglis (1892) put it, have endowed the animal with an aura of mystery and fear, a feeling which has been intensified by the cat’s occasional predilection for preying on humans.'"
