Tigers of the High Himalayas

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(07-27-2019, 11:23 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: Royal Bengal tiger was captured on camera at the Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary in East district by the Sikkim Forest Department, in Sikkim.

The big cat was caught on camera near Goru Jurey at an altitude of 9,583ft (2920 m).

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This tiger was trapped at Gamthangpu above Lachen in north Sikkim and has got the state talking. 

The national animal was spotted at an altitude of 3,600 m above sea level.
 

(06-17-2019, 04:03 AM)Sully Wrote: They overlap, but thus far, no interaction has been recorded between the tiger and snow leopard. That's the position we're at right now. (This is from an old article btw)
 
""We've realized that Bhutan is now officially the only country in the world to have tigers at such high altitudes and also the only country where the habitat of the snow leopard and the tiger are overlapping," said Tiger Sangay of the Nature Conservation Division. Sources say that pugmarks and pictures can be seen between 3,700 to 4,300 meters in the latest study."

I doubt we will record interaction soon, both are rare and elusive meaning even seeing one is lucky let alone two, and the snow leopard will avoid the tiger and its preferred habitat niches at all costs. It's possible sure, but unlikely we will get anything of substance in years. 

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2008/...09-02.html

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The previous tiger click there, was in 9500ft Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary at Sikkim adjoining Bhutan's Jigme Kesar Nature Reserve just across the border, when a snow leopard was captured on the same tracks... this winter.

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Followed by another at 11, 715 ft in Kyongnosla Wildlife Sanctuary in May.

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Now another click in Gamthangpu above Lachen in North Sikkim, at an altitude of 3,600 metres above sea level.

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The World Wildlife Fund had set up camera traps as part of its special high altitude tiger project under the National Tiger Conservation Authority. A similar project for Tiger Conservation has been initiated by the WWF in West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Before these Neora Valley in North Bengal, just south of Pangolakha had several  tigers photographed in 2017-18 winter.

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All these have always been males. Most likely Bhutan's surplus transients probing into Indian forests for territory. Reply