Palash, the largest tiger at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, still paces his cage for the hour leading up to dinner and still pounces on his meal when his handlers lift the gate to his feeding room. But lately what the 440-pound feline finds is not his usual 15 pounds of raw beef, fresh from the slaughter.

A tiger mauled a cleaner to death in Yichun city, East China's Jiangxi province

As our cameras clicked away documenting this amazing show, Siraj could not hold himself any more and wanted to save the dying bird.