Year of the tiger

To mark the start of the Chinese Year of the Tiger the BBC has put up some lovely clips of tigers. I saw a wild tiger in the wild just once - a young one. We were in Corbet National Park in the foothills of the Himalayas, out on elephant back. The monkeys with their alarm calls alerted us to it. We waited...and eventually a young tiger darted across our path - lithe and beautiful, just a flash of movement and colour. Yesterday I visited the National History museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition - quite a few of the big cats photographed there -lovely to see. You can browse some of the pictures here.