INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Two tigers were found dead at the Ranthambore National Park
officials suspecting that they were killed in a territorial fight with another tiger
A postmortem of the tigers will be conducted today to find the exact cause of death.Both tigers aged 18 months were from the litter of
tigress T-79 and were found dead at Aanwad-ki-Khad of Sawai Man Singh Sanctuary in the park yesterday.Apparently, they were killed by
another male tiger, Field Director of the RNP, YK Sahu said.Forest department officials said the carcasses have been kept at Kundal Naka
near Rajbagh Choki of Ranthambore National Park.Territorial disputes have been rising in the park due to an increase in tiger population
The population of tigers is nearly 70, including cubs and sub-adults
The population is almost double the capacity of a national park, forest officials said.A tiger demarcates a 10-12 sq km area as its personal
territory where it does not allow a rival male to enter, they said.The two killed sub-adults were born to tigress T-79 and were photographed
Four tigers have died in a month in the state.On March 20, a four-year-old male tiger from Sariska, ST-11, got strangled in a barbed wire
fence laid out by a poacher
The big cat was found dead in an agriculture field.Just a day later, on March 21, another male tiger died in Ranthambore after it was
tranquillised while being rescued.The 13-year-old male tiger T-28, famously known as Star or Sitara , was being rescued from a village in
Khandar area on the parks periphery
It had strayed close to village Chaan, where people had surrounded it.A forest department team reached the spot to rescue the big cat and
