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(07-18-2014, 04:18 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: More detailed info on the incident between the fighting tigers and elephant and gaurds
According to forest officials, the fight began in the Mirchaini area under beat number 313 of the reserve’s Tala range. A two-and-a-half-year-old tiger from the Hardia area intruded into the Mirchaini area and soon after two tigers ~ both one-and-a-half-years-old ~ lunged towards it to ward it off and drive it out of their territorial zone."On getting information about the fight, forest deputy ranger R A Pathan and forest guard Vinod Pakhale rushed to the spot on elephant back along with mahaut Neelam.But the moment the elephant reached the spot, both the tigers of Mirchaini area broke off from the fight and made the pachyderm their target. One of them mauled it on its trunk, while the other pounced on its foot. The elephant panicked and went into a bucking frenzy in an attempt to throw off the tigers.It did succeed in throwing off the tigers, but in the process the three forest personnel tumbled down from its back. Mr Pathan and Neelam somehow managed to get into the shelter of the nearby trees. A panic-stricken Pakhale too started running with all his might, but he fell to the ground at some distance and never got up again, forest officials said.By this time another team of forest personnel reached the spot. They picked up Vinod who was rushed to the Umaria district hospital. However, doctors at the hospital declared him dead. It was a mystery how he died. Forest officials couldn't say with certainty whether he had a fatal fall or whether the attack by the tigers had anything to do with his death.While the rescue operation was going on, the tigers resumed their fight. It ended only after one of the three was killed. Later, forest officials found the dead feline was one of two tigers from the Mirchaini area.     “It is a very tragic incident. What makes us even sadder is the fact that we found after checking Vinod Pakhale’s service record that the day he died was his birthday,” Bandhavgarh park director Mr C H Murlikrishnan told The Statesman today.“Only the post mortem report will reveal the cause of his death. According to  information we have got so far there were no external injury marks on his body,” Mr Murlikrishnan added.(representative photograph)
http://www.thestatesman.net/news/66269-D...tml?page=3

 

 

I think if we can find out the subadult males in Hardia area, we can narrow down the search.
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