Machli - Tigress Vigour - Life Journey in a Gist

Tiger Vs Tigress - Tigress wins...and here stands in the Asian tropical forests of Indian sub-continent, a magnificient hunting beast and an untamed roaring cat that shakes the forest grounds of Ranthambore National Forest especially when is time "hunting". People and teh officials named her, Machli, for the fish-shaped mark that was spotted on her face. A cub that stepped into this forest in the year 1997 when marked by the officials with the "conservation code T-16", did not realise that they are recording "an everlasting memory". Every step of this tigress and her life turned out to be "forever in our memories" in their lives. This beast grew popular for her magnificience and grandeur hunting skills and propagation.

She roamed ever nook and corner of the forests leaving a mark of her presence:

a. The lakes turned out to be her favourites cooling rest spots and so Lady of the Lakes:



Chilling Out



She cooled herself

b. She shows off her elegance over these rocky enclaves and so Tigress Queen of Ranthambore:

Jungle Boy's Sharekhan

Queen's palace, Royal Bengal Tigree Machli

c. She gave birth to 11 cubs in her fertility years between 1999 to 2006, and her partners were Babu Ram, Nick Ear and X-male (twice); and so was favouritely called "Queen mother of Tigers" - 7 female and 4 male cubs; this attracted tourists to the forests to see her pride of her cubs and helped the officials to earn a name pointing her as effective conservation including 100 million US Dollars - therefore they honoured her with a "Lifetime Achievement Award":

Machli and her 3 cubs: T17, T18 and T19

d. She roamed the forests in agility and valoured her strenght in hunting for prey and saving her cubs:

Her hunting skills



e. Her feat in hunting was demonstrated when she preyed on a 14 feet muggler crocodile creating a world record and was then on known as "Corcodile Killer" with loss of two canine teeth:

World Record Hunter Tigress

Her life became a history and she turned into a renounced VVIP animal when BBC aired her life history documetnary in 2012 in the Natural World serial epsiode: "Queen of Tigers: Natural World Special" and Tiger Queen. Adding to her recognition, in 2013, Government of India honoured her with a commemorative postal cover and stamp.

She had a royal send off on 18th August 2016 when the forest officials, Y. K. Sahu was notified of her death in the Ama Ghati Checkpost after an official post-mortem. She lived a legendary life of 20 long years, the longest life span for the Roarer, Oldest Tigress in this decade.