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This is the only surviving son of Chota Bheem we know of. Looks like a well sized tiger, comparable to any Bandhavgarh bruiser of the past. He has territory in a patch of forest in MP and this resort has named him Tesuveer. The legendary bloodline lives on.

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Credit goes to all original owners. I am not the original owner of these photographs nor do I claim to be. All photographs here were shared purely for educational purposes.

1. P5 Pandu of Tadoba. He was the original Pandu of Tadoba before Matkasur. He was a son of Leela and W male from their final litter and the brother of P2 Maya.

2. Bajirao male from Bor Tiger Reserve. He was likely the mate of Katrina female (although I haven't done research on this)

3. Dendu male of Navegaon Nagzira. He was the mate of Alfa and Mai and fathered 8 cubs (Prince/Samrat migrated to Pench, Jai migrated to Umred, Veeru, Alisha, Bhombhuram, Ayat, Tani and Kani migrated to Navegaon WLS from old nagzira). He was likely poached.

4. Bandra male of Khursapar, Pench MH, as a young male

5. Male tiger tagged as KNT110 from Kanha National Park, Mukki zone, in the 1990s. Unfortunately I do not know anything else about him. I suspect he was a son of Gaur Singh as he looks a lot like his probable grandson Nakkatta.

6. Legendary Banka male of Bandhavgarh from the late 1980s. He was the dominant male of Tala zone from 1984 to 1991 and the first mate of Sita, fathering her first 2 litters.

7. One of the first sightings of Mangu of Bandhavgarh in 2014. This was from the Banbehi area.

8. Rahasya male of Bandhavgarh. He was suspected to be a son of Bokha. He was one of the many challengers of Bamera and also killed all but 1 of Kankati's cubs (that one cub grew up to be T37 Somanshu). He eventually left the area and went missing. Some speculate he was killed by Jobhi

9. Tigress named Chili from Tala zone, Bandhavgarh, in 2002. Photographed unfortunately did not provide any more information about her. She was likely a transient tigress

10. Tiger from Bandhavgarh in the 1980s. I had originally misidentified it as the man eater of Bandhavgarh from 1982. On closer inspection, it seems like this is a different male. I theorize that this male is actually none other than "Daddy", the mate of the old Sita Mandap female and the father of legendary tigress Sita.

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It's been 3 weeks since she bought her cubs out lately, the wait was pretty much disappointing & exhausting, being a person who steps on to the field every single day expecting and calculating the sighting to happen today or Tommorow, well the wait just doesn't get any late as she brought her cubs to the tourism area this morning and it was indeed a blast.

I am sure we have lots of Kajiri & Shambu fans in this forum, so i thought of sharing this right away.

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Had this beautiful sighting of T67 Bakhari tigress with her 3 cubs in Pench earlier this year.

Video belongs to someone else who was kind enough to share with us as we didn't carry a camera.

Video - Deepak Rajbanshi