Hyderabad, May 3 -- The decision to enable visitorsof the Hyderabad zoo (Nehru Zoological Park) to take selfies and experience a closer experience of the white tigers in the zoo, which would potentially be expanded to other carnivores, is being seen as both positive and negative development.

Tigers and species of the cat family are highly sensitive to the flash of the cameras, and it has been scientifically proven that they eyes get irritated and in certain cases, their eyes also got damaged- that too in the wild.

The Chenchus of the Nallamala forest, who have been living and sharing a familial relationship with the tigers since time immemorial, know the effects better than anyone else.

Thokala Guruvaiah, a Chenchu leader from Appapur ...