The Tiger MUM's HANDBOOK:Starvation, predation and infanticide: the odds are stacked against young tigers. Stephen Mills discovers the strategies a mother uses to help her cubs make it to adulthood.

摘要

Madhya Pradesh, India's jungle state: a sunbeam probes between the oval leaves of the sal trees, almost parallel to the strong, straight trunks, catching at last the white spots on the ears of a tiger cub. Nothing moves. Nothing will move again for this baby tiger. The little face peering up from the jungle floor is all that is left of it. Last night a stranger, an alien male tiger, rampaged into its life and ended it.