 He started by bringing up an orphaned male leopard cub named Prince, which he successfully reintroduced to the wild in 1973.To provide Prince with a mate he subsequently raised two orphaned female leopards cubs, Harriet and Juliette.In July 1976, he acquired a hand-reared female tiger cub named "Tara" from Twycross Zoo in the United Kingdom, and reintroduced her to the wild in the Dudhwa National Park with the permission of India's then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.