A young tigress learns the hard way that she cannot hunt on the turf of the dominant male tiger. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe ➡ Watch all clips of Mission Critical here:...
========== [music playing]NARRATOR: A young Bengal tigress
swelters under the Indian sun.It's the dry season
and 115 degrees.Too young to have
claimed her own turfand too old to be
with her mother,she's homeless and hungry.And there's little cover
in this dry forest,which makes her easy to spot.She gets lucky and
stumbles across a gatheringof chital deer.Absolute stealth
is her only chance.But before she can even
pounce, it all falls apart.She didn't blow it.He did.500 pounds of cranky cat.The young tigress was
hunting on his turf.And now she has
to pay the price.She has no choice
but to concede.The tigress is left
to tend to her wounds.She's lucky to be alive.If she were a male, he
might have killed her.
