We'd asked you, dear readers, to share stories and photographs of the national animal.
Rediff reader Samuil Kabir shared his story.

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Samuil Kabir, 40 shared these photographs from his trip to Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, India.

It was around 8.50 am and a very hot sunny day.

We were driving on a marshland and behind us there was a swamp.

Suddenly we realized that we missed an orange striped thing behind us. We stopped promptly, reversed our jeep and saw this huge tiger crossing the swamp.

When a Tiger walks, the jungle stands in attention.

He noticed our jeep and warned us with a killer look. We realised that it was his land and we were trespassers there.

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