ocr: first saw the tigress called Sita in 1986 in Bandhavgarh National Park in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. She lay asleep on a hillside when the elephant I was sharing with the Indian natu- ralist Hashim Tyabji found her, full bellied after eating from the spotted deer that lay next to her. She was exhausted by the steady strain of having to feed and care for her first litter of three cubs, whose mewing Icould just make out from still higher up the slope amid the expectant cawing of crows that teetered in the branches of the surrounding trees. We were just 30 feet or: SO from the ti ...
