On my visit to Kerala in the month of May.... bagged a couple of lifers...this is one of them...captured on my morning trip through the plantation adjoining the resort.... heard a growl from nearby thicket about fifty feet away and backed off...was not sure if the animal in question were wild boar which were rampant or a big cat..though I was assured that they were no big cats about by the staff at the resort...faced similar situation on day two about half a kilometer away..this time more vocal, directly in front of me with lots of rustling in the cardamom plantation that I was walking through... I was not curious..just backed off as fast as my feet could carry.... both times I was all alone by myself ...about a week later, noticed a column in national paper (The Hindu) about an attack by a tiger at an adjoining plantation about ten kilometers away from where I had stayed...a dog was killed and one person was mauled but managed to escape.
