‘The road stopper’: Tiger drinks water on side of a road, netizens praise locals for maintaining distance

While sharing the clip, Badhawan wrote, “Clicked this morning by Range Officer Katarniaghat in the buffer area of the Sanctuary. True to its name, ‘Katarniaghat – Where rare is common’”.

Clicked this morning by Range Officer Katarniaghat in the buffer area of the Sanctuary.
True to its name, “Katarniaghat – Where rare is common” https://t.co/mGJOgRJzdi

— Akash Deep Badhawan, IFS (@aakashbadhawan) May 1, 2023

Commenting on it a Twitter user wrote, “The striped monk needs to be respected a lot. Good to see that people are not screaming or honking.” Another person said, “How patiently the locals are giving the right to the animal. And switch to the tourists zone where the drivers take the jeeps close to the animals. Some where we need to ack that locals know how to live with the nature than blaming them for everything !!”.

Earlier in January this year, a quite opposite video, taken during a jungle safari, went viral that showed a man following a tiger, with a mobile phone in his hand as other tourists clicked pictures from the jeep. This behaviour of tourists was widely criticised by IFS officers.