VIDEO: Sholeh’s Best Friend Is a Bengal Tiger

Animals depend on us and we depend on them.

None can survive without the other.

That’s why it’s important to take care of our fellow beings.

Sometimes, beautiful friendships can even be formed.

Sholeh and Mulan, the Bengal tiger, have developed a very close relationship.

According to Viral 4 Real, this man was dubbed the ‘tiger nanny’ because of his job. He started taking care of Mulan the Bengal Tiger when she was just a 3-month-old Cub.

Sholeh’s job is to make sure Mulan the Bengal tiger is taken care at all times. Sholeh makes sure Mulan is fed on time, with the right amount of food and love. For 24 hours, he lives, sleeps, eats and plays with 400-lb. Bengal tiger.

7 years later, Sholeh and Mulan play like old pals. Though Mulan is adorable most of the time, she can be dangerous too. Tigers are natural hunters, making Mulan an everyday threat to Sholeh’s life.

“When she is playing she can scratch and bite, and those are just a few of the risks that I have to face,” Sholeh explained. “I was lucky, Mulan’s claws nearly took my eye out.”

According to Wikipedia, the basic social unit of the tiger is the elemental one of mother and offspring. Adult animals congregate only on an ad hoc and transitory basis when special conditions permit, such as plentiful supply of food. Otherwise they lead solitary lives, hunting individually for the dispersed forest and tall grassland animals, upon which they prey.

They establish and maintain home ranges. Resident adults of either sex tend to confine their movements to a definite area of habitat within which they satisfy their needs, and in the case of tigresses, those of their growing cubs.

Besides providing the requirements of an adequate food supply, sufficient water and shelter, and a modicum of peace and seclusion, this location must make it possible for the resident to maintain contact with other tigers, especially those of the opposite sex. Those sharing the same ground are well aware of each other’s movements and activities.

In the Panna Tiger Reserve an adult radio-collared male tiger moved 1.7 to 10.5 km (1.1 to 6.5 mi) between locations on successive days in winter, and 1 to 13.9 km (0.62 to 8.64 mi) in summer.

His home range was about 200 km2 (77 sq mi) in summer and 110 km2 (42 sq mi) in winter. Included in his home range were the much smaller home ranges of two females, a tigress with cubs and a sub-adult tigress. They occupied home ranges of 16 to 31 km2 (6.2 to 12.0 sq mi).

The home ranges occupied by adult male residents tend to be mutually exclusive, even though one of these residents may tolerate a transient or sub-adult male at least for a time. A male tiger keeps a large territory in order to include the home ranges of several females within its bounds, so that he may maintain mating rights with them.

Spacing among females is less complete. Typically there is partial overlap with neighbouring female residents. They tend to have core areas, which are more exclusive, at least for most of the time. Home ranges of both males and females are not stable.