As a rule, only the female takes care of the cubs, but in Ranthambore, an unusual photograph was taken by Fateh Singh Rathore showing father, mother and their two cubs sitting leisurely in a water pool.

The cubs start out hunting not until they are three months old. One of the earliest lessons for the cubs is to pounce on their mother’s tail, which she constantly shifts to dodge them. Cubs play and learn with their mother until and unless they are perfect hunters then only the mother Tiger allows them to go independently. The journey for the hunt starts from the squirrel to big animals.