the tiger's family tree

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INSTRUCTIONS:

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This family tree has been adapted from the book by Ian Green, Wild Tigers of Bandhavgarh - Encounters in a Fragile Forest. I've taken the liberty of updating the families and adding a few details. There are some confusing naming conventions used by people to describe and identify the tigers.

"Based on their character or where they live, local people have given each adult a traditional name"

This is how Charger and Sita were named. The name Charger referred to this infamous tiger's fondness for charging jeeps and elephants... usually with petrified tourists on board. Sita was named after the Hindu goddess Sita as many Indian girls are when they are born.

"Since 1997, Kay Tiwari has been studying the tigers, and to avoid confusion, especially when referring to the young unnamed cubs, she devised a coding system based on each tiger's mother's name. The simple code works as follow: the offspring of the tigress Bachchi are B1, B2, B3 and so on. In each litter males are numbered before females..."

For more imformation about the tigers, wonderful artwork and photographs, visit www.kaysat.com