Tigers of South India & Western Ghats

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that’s incredible, same male tiger almost three years later. I wonder how much he travels if he’s not frequently sighted? hope they are able to track his movements. Tfs!

edit: wasn’t this the same male that ended up on the news a few times?

Quote: Tourists returning from the safari trip in Bannerghatta, about 25 km from the city, had a rare opportunity of sighting a wild tiger on Saturday evening. It is for the first time that a wild tiger has been sighted in Bannerghatta, officials said.
The tiger was spotted near Mulegundekere, near the Rescue Centre that houses lions and tigers at the Bannerghatta Biological Park around 3.45 p.m., official sources said.
Confirming the sighting, Executive Director Range Gowda said, “Visitors spotted the tiger during the evening safari. This is the first such spotting of a tiger close to the tiger rescue centre.”
According to the master plan prepared by the Zoo Authority of Karnataka for Bannerghatta Biological Park, Mulegundekere, where the wild Tiger was found, falls in the elephant corridor.
However, a wildlife activist on condition anonymity said the spotting doesn’t imply that the national park is capable of rearing tigers. “The tiger was probably a transient from the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary. There have been documented cases where tigers have moved hundreds of kilometres through human habitation without being noticed,” he said.
Incidentally, in October 2013, a tiger was spotted nearly 80 km from Bengaluru at the edge of Bannerghatta National Park and Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, which is almost a contiguous patch of forest land.

(July/5/2015 sighting) according to the article, a wild tiger was first sighted around there back in (October/2013). perhaps this could be the same male? 

Quote:The lone wild tiger sighted recently at the Bannerghatta National Park has made the BNP its home and is said to be doing well. Despite the park’s proximity to Bengaluru City, the tiger has posed no threat to humans.

Quote:According to the forest department and Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) officials, the lone male is now in search of a mate and this explains why it is frequenting the safari and rescue centre area. It is possible that this lone male is looking for a female after establishing its territory at the BNP, said Santosh Kumar, Director, BBP.

Since the tiger made the BNP its home, visitors to the BBP have sighted it twice. The first time was on July 5, 2015, at Mulegundekere (near the animal rescue centre) and the second was at the famous Barber Stone, en route to the safari on January 12. However, the forest department and zookeepers say they have been frequently seeing pugmarks, hearing calls and sighting him in this region. 

The BBP has been carved out of theBNP and both share common boundaries. The places where the tiger was sighted twice are close to the lion and tiger safari and the rescue and rehabilitation centre. The BBP houses 35 tigers (30 Royal Bengal and five white) of which 21 are males and 14 breeding females, Kumar said.

 The carnivore is feeding well on deer, Sambar and wild boar in the wild. No cattle attack cases have been reported so far. The tiger is roaming around the BNP. Since people are permitted only into the safari area, they have seen the tiger there, added Sunil Panwar, BNP Director.

Since there is a well-established corridor from the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary to the BNP, the presence of another tiger in the region cannot be ruled out. Camera traps need be installed in this region to verify it, said a BBP official.

January/12/2017 sighting

I remember a few posts made by Pckts last year about the same male

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-tigers-of-s-india?page=3

posts #34 and #36 

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I managed to find a better picture of him

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looks like a big male, probably just attracted by the captive females. 

the big male outside the fence is the same male i believe, on the other side is a captive female. looks like they just wanted to mate. (2016 video)

in this encounter, (2017 video) looks like it was an encounter with a captive male tiger, you could see the safari bus at 0:16, the male to the left is captive and the bigger male on the right is the same wild tiger that has been visiting this park. Reply