Tigers are my favourite creatures in the whole world and I'm really enjoying the current BBC programme "Tiger: Spy in the jungle" which is tracking a female tiger and her four cubs over several years in Pench national park in India. Notoriously difficult to get up close to (for obvious reasons), the tigers are being filmed using ingenious spy cameras carried by elephants and using "boulder cam" and "log cam". We had a holiday in India a couple of years ago and spent some time in Ranthambore national park. On our last morning we were lucky enough to see a tiger (a female, walking at the side of the jeep we were in) but were so taken aback and awestruck that the one and only photograph just shows a stripey blur amongst the trees. These are stills from the progamme and show these magnificent animals, whose numbers are still dwindling through poaching, in all their glory.
