By A territorial clash between2massive cats left one among them dead and therefore the miscarriage of its four foetuses, in Umred Paoni Karhandla (UPKWS) life Sanctuary, fiftykilometer from here.
The body of the tiger was found within the Tas beat of the sanctuary on Sunday beside its four foetuses lying close. The foetuses were a minimum of 7-8 weeks recent.
“The tiger, aged 3-4 years, apparently died in a very territorial clash with another tiger, presumably a male. heaps of signs of the violent clash, like blood path, disturbed forest floor vegetation, drag marks and puncture marks on its neck, area unit indicative of the clash with another tiger,” aforesaid Pench Tiger Reserve Field Director Ravikiran Govekar.
“Part of its body was conjointly found eaten up, that powerfully indicates territorial clash risk as pattern among tigers may be a noted truth,” he added.
This is second tiger death in territorial clash in UPKWS within the past 3 months. A sub-adult male was killed in August.
This is conjointly third tiger death within the region within the past eight days.
Earlier, on November sixteen, a tiger was found killed with its body components strewn over 3 farms in a very village in Gondia district. Before that, components of a tiger electrocuted by some villagers were recovered from Brahmapuri division.
This is the primary noted time that the fouteses of a tiger got aborted in a very territorial clash.
The tiger was 1st noticed in UPKWS in March this year, indicating that it had recently migrated to the sanctuary and should are troubled for house. It conjointly shows that it formed from union with a male when returning to the sanctuary.
“This a part of the forest is that the territory of a male known as T22. If the tiger had mated with it, it’s unlikely to own killed her. There area unit 3 males within the sanctuary WHO usually stray into every other’s territories. So, it’s possible that the tiger was killed by another male,” aforesaid Roheet Karoo, unearned life peace officer of Nagpur WHO is accustomed to the sanctuary.
The 189-sq kilometer UPKWS has a minimum of ten tigers, as well as some sub-adult ones.
Asked if the 2 tiger deaths in territorial clash suggests scarcity of house for the tigers, Govekar aforesaid, “Actually, the sanctuary isn’t one integrated whole of forest. There area unit some breaches. Also, tigers here keep occupancy and out. typically they move towards Brahmapuri in Chandrapur district employing a passageway. So, there might not be any mounted territories of a number of the tigers.”
Karoo said, “The sanctuary that came into existence eight years agone when the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve upshot population started returning here has only 1 smart passageway, that takes it back to wherever it came from. the opposite 2 corridors, to Pench Tiger Reserve and Bor Sanctuary, have massive gaps. So, tigers here usually tend to cross every others’ territories, giving rise to risk of clash.”
He said, “A giant space of one hundred sixty sq kilometer is vacant adjacent to the west of the sanctuary because of rehabilitation of over sixty villages suffering from Gosikhurd irrigation project. life is slowly occupancy there…there is ample grass and water from Gosikhurd backwaters is on the market. Development of this space into a tiger home ground with protection being extended may solve heaps of territorial problems for the large cats here.”
