Garden invader, tiger food ... it's a precarious life in the jungle...

This chital (spotted deer) was a visitor to the garden in Bardia a few weeks ago.  I'm not sure why it was so unafraid of people, coming out of the jungle the way it did.  If we'd been tigers I'm sure it would have stayed away.  Oh the irony...

50 tigers in the area and thought to be about 90,000 chital.  If a tiger kills on average one chital a week, well you do the maths.  Of course there are many variables but whichever way it's looked at it's a precarious life in the jungle...