Wild carnivores and humans compared

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(05-02-2020, 12:19 AM)Pckts Wrote: Siddharth Singh
Harvesting season is on.. Tiger wants his share it seems.. Pilibhit TR

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Siddharth Singh Free ranging male from Pilibhit Mala range.. Tractor is forest Dept's and custom made for conflict situations .. Regular thing At Pilibhit as harvesting is on and tigers live in these farmlands
Siddharth Singh Prakash Bhai.. There are four to five tigers in same area and he is average size tiger but big yes

Edit: I just noticed this has been posted 3 times now.
haha Sorry about that

(05-04-2020, 01:42 AM)Rage2277 Wrote: so apparently the tiger died from a tranquilizer overdose how many times has this happened ?

(05-04-2020, 02:49 AM)Lycaon Wrote: @Rage2277 

Most likely a covert way for them to kill tigers and to save face at the same time.

(05-04-2020, 04:12 AM)Ashutosh Wrote: This incident was outside Pilibhit tiger reserve which has about 10 tigers living in the sugarcane fields just outside the park. The forest department decided 2 months back to relocate these tigers to a forest adjoining Dudhwa.

The tiger in question apparently injured 5 people. So, it is probable that this tiger was exterminated in order to save the tigers living in sugarcane fields from being attacked and hounded by villagers and to pacify the people living around the park.

To avoid an increasing number of conflict in this area (there have been 5 deaths and 10 injured in last 45 days), an idea of translocating them to avoid conflict was floated and agreed. But, looking at it carefully you realize what a stupid plan it is to keep them in an enclosed territory for 2 years and then release them. Here is the report:


https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/pilibhit-tiger-reserve-10-big-cats-living-in-sugarcane-fields-to-be-relocated/1892579/

So I looked up from all sources I could find... Problem with incidents like this is everybody is so busy grilling each other, that it becomes very tough to figure out the big picture of what truely happened.

Anyways, here's my take.

As you may know tigers sugarcane field is very similar to their natural habitat of tall grassland, except human presence makes normal tigers quite wary. 
So these sugarcane field havehave become refuge for young adults being chased by dominant males, females giving looking to give birth in safety beyond usual reach of competing resident tigers or cases like this one, where a male is recovering from his injuries after fight while preying on stray cattle. 

My understanding of what happened here is they to funnel the tiger back to the forest area, but possibly due to  the presence of his opponent in that area he simply came back within next few days. 
This is when the decision to tranq & send him for treatment at Lucknow zoo was taken. But as you have seen in cases before, it is difficult to accurately estimate the weight of a large tiger and set a required dosage (especially they need more when agitated). When the first dart failed to sedate him, they started combing again to inject a follow-up & pressure was mounting as he had now injured 2 more people after 3 last day.

So this time two separate teams of vet shot him, as he sprinted away from one wing of the pincer to another after the prick. Like it happened with Star Male of Ranth few years ago, his body couldn't take the drugs.
While it is technically true that a fully healthy tiger may have survived that, there is no way to know how much the overdose actually was.

Bottomline, they need more walkytalkies for better coordination between teams. And FD needs to oversee and coordinate the harvesting by some sort of a grid system.
Just like Greater Gir the plan of relocating the cats looks good only on papers. But it is not a practical solution, as their place will be filled after buy new ones with years, maybe months.

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The shape of Pilibhit-Kishanpur-Dudhwa-Katherniaghat is supremely messed up, by previous govts haphazardly settling refugees from Pakistan in the area. The whole of it needs to be a single TR managed by a most experienced officer... And there needs to be some fencing at places that are not corridors. Reply