The Indian tiger, the ‘king of beasts’, lost face. When a herd of elephants passed the road, they fell flat and cleared the road.
On the 30th, India’s NDTV reported on a video of a ‘tiger giving way’ shared on social media by Susanta Nanda, a member of the Indian Forest Service.
In the video, the tiger roamed the road, glanced to the right, and hurriedly fell down on the side of the road. Right after that, a lead elephant the size of a house appeared with a cry from among the grass. The elephant indifferently crossed the road without even paying attention to the lying tiger.
A relatively small elephant crossed the road behind the lead elephant, but the tiger did not dare to move. It was because a much bigger elephant was following right behind.
For about 40 seconds while the three elephants crossed the road, the tiger was motionless. The tiger remained calm until the three elephants disappeared into the grass. After a while, the tiger got up and looked around. The tiger, which looked around as if it was regretful, was eventually scolded by the fourth elephant that followed at a distance.
The video shared by Susanta has been viewed more than 100,000 times and received thousands of ‘likes’. Netizens left comments such as “‘King of Beasts’ is no good for ‘Giant of the Grassland’”, “The tiger became a calm cat in front of the elephant”, and “The tiger was frightened when he heard the elephant’s cry” and commented on the tiger’s’ I was delighted with the humiliation. There was also an opinion that the tiger seemed to be aiming for the ‘cub’ that was on its way second.
The Indian tiger mainly preys on medium-sized herbivores such as deer, monkeys, and wild boars. It is impossible to hunt adult elephants because they do not live in groups, but sometimes they succeed in hunting baby elephants or weakened elephants who have fallen from the herd.
The video was reportedly shot by wildlife photographer Vijetta Simha.
Source: Donga
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