Indians hunting with CHeetah's

[lakecity_shooter]

Found This interesting video

Hope everyone likes it.

Its really sad that hunting is no more a part of our culture.!


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[dr.jayakumar]

friend,
its not a panther,its a chetach.
regards
drjk

[Suman gupta]

Wish,Hunting as a sport should never have been our culture, see what its done to the cheetahs, and to the tigers in Sariska forest.

[Georgian21]

Amazing,

By sheer watching I can feel the adrenaline pumping.... the way these animals have been trained; blind folded when the kill is taken away from them... more prominent is that than men are sharing the kill with the animal.

Such art of controlling the cheetah is lost forever.

Regards
Gopal

[lakecity_shooter]

@dr jayakumar..I stand corrected (it was a typo)

[Rajat]

when the kill is taken away from them... more prominent is that than men are sharing the kill with the animal.

It seems that the animal is sharing the kill with the men rather than the men with the animal.

Such art of controlling the cheetah is lost forever.

Aren't you happy about it?

[Georgian21]

Well Rajat,

I can answer both your sentences: I am right and I am not happy about it ... was merely trying to appreciate the good video and the fact that this old video survived to tell us a different aspect of hunting, before watching the video I was assuming that Cheetah's might be used to round up the animal to be shot at by the royalties sitting in the royal bullock cart

This is like our Arm act scenario here..... We are empowered to control the act but the fact remains that there are some white collar buffs sitting on it seems like I am getting what they are leaving for me.... i.e. Kill being shared by them (Even if I am an educated, physically fit, peace loving and patriotic Cheetah)

We cannot and should not let the bygone pieces base our judgement. The debate can go on forever on -what could have been done or would have happen!! Let's do it through NAGRI

Regards
Gopal

[Rajat]

This is like our Arm act scenario here..... We are empowered to control the act but the fact remains that there are some white collar buffs sitting on it seems like I am getting what they are leaving for me.... i.e. Kill being shared by them (Even if I am an educated, physically fit, peace loving and patriotic Cheetah)

Strange comparison and thought provoking too

The debate can go on forever on -what could have been done or would have happen!! Let's do it through NAGRI

Leaving all the rest apart, cannot disagree on this one

[lakecity_shooter]

Let's do it through NAGRI

[thakur]

It's sad we couldn't preserve this tradition like many others.

[Safarigent]

It is sad that we couldnt preserve our wildlife.

[Katana]

This film was taken in Bhavnagar, Kathiawar, by a duo working for National Geographic. It was titled 'Hunting with an Indian Prince", or something to that effect. Has been posted before.

Kolhapur was another State where coursing with cheetahs was epitomised in western or European hunting circles, unfortunately only photographs from this area survive.

[shashankspectral]

These are african cheetah, cheetah population in india reduced drastically at the beignning of 20th century that many princes king begin importing cheetahs from africa....there was one more tradition, caracal coursing, which is equally interesting.......

[lakecity_shooter]

Can u share something about Caracal coursing ?????????????

google is not giving exact idea.

[shashankspectral]

http://www.archive.org/stream/finalnatu ... h_djvu.txt


THE CARACAL LYNX 35

name of Felis caracal (Nov. Comm. Acad. Petrop.
I776). 1 It has long been used in the East to chase
game; the Arabs and Persians employ it to hunt
antelope, peafowl, and demoiselle crane during
the cold weather, the animal being kept hooded
like a cheetah and then turned after its quarry
in the wheat and millet fields. The speed and
strength of the caracal is much greater than
would be expected. In Vigne's day (1842) many
of the Indian princes regularly kept caracal for
coursing. "The speed of the caracal, or Indian
lynx," observes Vigne, "is, if possible, quicker in
proportion than that of the chita." The same
traveller saw a caracal slipped at a grey fox, which
it ran into as a dog would into a rat. As regards
the strength of this lynx, Dr. Charleton relates that
he saw one fall on a hound, which it killed and tore
to pieces, though the dog defended itself to the
utmost.

Many years ago Commandant Loche received a
caracal from M. Rose, officer of the Bureau Arabe at
Biskra, in the Sahara Desert. It was gentle, playful,
and fond of being stroked; it used to lie on the
furniture, and especially on the beds, like a domestic
cat; in cold weather it crept inside the bed! Another
individual was equally tame, but of uncertain temper.

1. The Hunterian M.S. published by Owen contains an account of a
dissection of a "Shargoss ts (probably = siya gush or caracal); and the
Royal College of Surgeons' Museum contains a nearly complete caracal
skeleton, formerly labelled " Bones of a Shargoss " hence, probably, the
same individual as in the MS.



i got this link. It was quit popular in rajsthan and madhya pradesh. A caracal was used to hunt small game birds like patridges, pigeon.