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Samir Ingale

Missing Jai - ‪#‎FindJai‬
The story so far
Jai was first radio collared in Sept 2015 , after few months the collar stopped functioning. It was collared again in March 16 this year, to fail again within a few days.
The WII scientist’s statement that was carried in newspapers stated - “ There is every possibility that Jai may have moved in search of new territory. It must have become logical for Jai not to challenge the younger males. This may be one of the reasons for his absence from Karhandla”
Jai's age is around 7 years which is a stage when these carnivores are challenged by younger and fitter males in their territory. In Umred, all of the females have litters fathered by Jai and in areas near Brahmapuri as well, few females have litters probably fathered by Jai.”
And an excuse that the collar stopped working due to high tension wires around where Jai roamed.
This is our view on the above three points -
Jai is a tiger in his prime, he will not see threat from tigers of 2-3 years of age, all sired by him.
The age of 7 years as quoted by WII is wrong as Jai is just 5.5 years old. Jai was born in Nov/ Dec 2010, that makes him 5.5 years old when he went missing. The month of birth has been confirmed from a retd senior officer from Nagzira.
The high tension lines can produce temporary malfunctioning in the radio collar, but will not render it useless completely, this again has been confirmed from expert in the field.
The forest department has undertaken extensive foot patrolling , cameras have been reinstalled at strategic points, all adjoining forest depts have been sensitised and are also searching for Jai, the leaders have also taken up this cause and are following up on Jai’s whereabouts .
Looking at lack of result from the above, local NGOs and wildlifers have formed a team to search the areas and track Jai, all by themselves. There are meetings today, near different villages, where Jai frequently traveled.
Though the fear of we losing him is imminent , we at CLaW want to believe that Jai will resurface and surprise us all.
Links to Print Media News -
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/53231321.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/53256214.cms
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