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[Manas Muduli @manas_muduli]

On this World Tiger Day, here is a remarkable story from Odisha!

A tiger that chose to live with humans instead of the wild - that was Khairi, the legendary tigress of Similipal.

Found as an orphaned cub near the Khairi River in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj on 5 Oct 1974, she was taken in by legendary forest officer Saroj Raj Choudhury(the founding Field Director of Similipal Tiger Reserve), and his wife Nihar Nalini Swain, who adopted her out of concern for the cub’s safety.

Khairi grew up alongside dogs, a bear, a hyena and even a crocodile. Every attempt to release her back into the wild failed - she always returned home. Her extraordinary life also helped Saroj Choudhury conduct pioneering research on tiger behaviour.

Khairi died tragically in 1981 after contracting rabies, but her story remains one of India’s most remarkable tales of wildlife conservation and the extraordinary bond between humans and a tiger.

A legend of Similipal. A pride of Odisha & India. ❤️

#TigerDay #internationalTigerDay #WorldTigerDay

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

by Nathan Head

[The Goodest Boys @theegoodestboys]

Even his tail is covered!

[𝕂𝕒𝕛𝕒𝕝 𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕣𝕒 @kajalmishaj]

Ek Aisi Bhabhi to mai bhi deserve
karti hu 😊

[Conraid (Blank) @conraid]

Photo by Pawel Brzezinski, 2015.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Painting by Mark Andrew Bailey

[Wanderer @wild_weird_]

Amy Adams kiss 😘💋🔥😍❤️
#AmyAdams

[Scott @Havenlust]

Sonia Lera Preston

[Scott @Havenlust]

Summer Evening, Wheatfield with Setting sun, 1888.

Vincent van Gogh

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Saw a dog in traffic and tried to record it… then something unexpected happened.

[Scott @Havenlust]

Portrait of a Young Peasant, 1889.

Vincent van Gogh

[@_rt* @literatura_rte]

Yehan Wang
A City Tangled in Wires

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Jordi Lafebre

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Davide Bonazzi
Long Way Home

[Gitana @Gitana1369877]

“The desert does not rush, and neither do I.”
painting by Werner Bronkhorst