© Source: PTIA lioness takes her cub to a safer place after heavy rainfall caused floods at forest in Amreli on Saturday.
Following a massive search and rescue operation, the Bhavnagar forest department on Tuesday issued a statement giving the details of the wild animal that died in the floods.
"Our 30 teams searched for wild animals dead or alive in mud filled water and muck for one week. We found bodies of total 1255 wild animals including four Asiatic lions which had swept away in flood waters and reached down-stream of Shetrunji River in Bhavnagar area," G S Singh, deputy conservator of forests, Bhavnagar, told TOI.
Singh said that the bodies were found from Palitana, Gariyadhar and Talaja talukas of Bhavnagar.
Apex Critters: On Land-Felines, In Water-Sharks.
Look at the beauty of that leaping feline.
Talk about grace in motion!
Re Sharks, I once saw a 9 ft. + Mako Shark come 'say hello' / investigate us at Cape Hatteras, N.C, circa 1979.
As we were waiting for a set, out in the lineup, we came up to the crest of a non breaking wave and saw a razor sharp-looking blue and black fin about 200 yards out from us. Beautiful, but SCARY.
As we sank down as that swell passed us, we spoke of whether we should leave the water. Ten to twelve seconds later, as we rose with the next swell, there in the valley below us, that shark was 40 feet away..
We decided to leave the water at that point.,
R.C.