A Royal Bengal tiger looked incongruous lying on a bed in a photograph that emerged on Twitter on Thursday from Assam's Kaziranga, where floods have left many animals dead or displaced from the world-renowned national park.
The tiger had apparently strayed out of the flooded national park and somehow ended up in a house near the national highway.
In the image tweeted by the Wildlife Trust India, the tiger is lying down on what appears to be a bed, peering from a hole ripped into the wall.
Our vet @samshulwildvet is on a mission to tranquilise this #tiger to get him out of bed! Anyone else see the irony? ???? #AssamFlood#Kaziranga ☝this thread is all abput good work done @vivek4wild@action4ifaw@VishalDadlani@deespeak@_AdilHussain@DevrajSanyal + pic.twitter.com/gCrwZtqzcc
- Wildlife Trust India (@wti_org_india) July 18, 2019
A Billion Choices says the bag but this #tiger chooses bed n breakfast to escape #AssamFloods. Our team @wti_org_india@action4ifaw with @kaziranga_ working to ensure safe passage to the #forest#Kaziranga@vivek4wild@AzzedineTDownes + pic.twitter.com/5hfxtK2djo
- Wildlife Trust India (@wti_org_india) July 18, 2019
Twitter users remarked that the animal was tired and hungry after struggling in the floods.
The owner was alerted to his surprise guest when neighbours screamed at spotting the tiger entering his premises.
Forest officials said attempts were on to tranquilize the tiger and take it to safety.
Assam has been badly hit by floods that have displaced thousands of people and cut off large parts of the state.
Forest officials say 95 per cent of the Kaziranga National Park -- home to the endangered one-horned rhino -- has been flooded. Thirty wild animals have died this week. Animals could be seen emerging out of the park to escape drowning.
After days, flood waters have now begun receding from the wildlife reserve.
The national park is bound to the north by the river Brahmaputra and highland areas in its south. Two years ago, over 360 animals including 31 rhinos and a tiger drowned in floods.
Flash floods caused by heavy rains in catchment areas of Nepal have ravaged a dozen districts of Bihar so far, claiming 78 lives and affecting 55 lakh people, the state's disaster management department said on Thursday.
A tiger escaped from the Kaziranga National Park in flood-ravaged Assam and stretched out on a shophouse bed Thursday, startling residents and shining a spotlight on the plight of animals caught up in the deluge.
Chest-deep in brown, flowing monsoon water and holding bags of clothes and utensils above their heads, residents in Bihar are hungry and in despair.
A 24-year-old woman in flood-hit Assam gave birth to a baby boy in a boat on Monday and named him Krishnaafter the Hindu Godwhowas also believed to have been born during massive floods.