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[Rishi]

Avni's cubs lured by recorded calls, they looked healthy & may be left alone

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The sound of a tigress calling her cubs, was played on a portable speaker every 2km near Vihirgaon dam by a team from Nagpur. They saw two pairs of eyes glowing in the dark from a distance of about 300m on Thursday night.

The cubs look healthy and were camera-trapped 7.5km away from Vihirgaon, at Anji, the next morning.

The cubs moving along the mother's trail don't seem to be hungry. On Monday morning, the two cubs have killed and eaten a pony that was kept for them leaving only it's head and neck.
It was earlier planned that the two cubs would be shifted to an enclosure in Pench Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra after capture, trained to hunt and later released into the wild.

But latest developments suggest, the two 11-months-olds may not be tranquillized and shifted out of Maharashtra's Yavatmal forest, yet.
The Maharashtra Govt. accused of being swayed by Industrialist lobby & the shooter A.A.Khan have been receiving a lot of heat. Khan has decided to write to the Forest department to adopt a wait and watch approach as the tiger cubs, as they are able to fend for themselves. FD themselves may have been trying to delay it enough for the media to forget & move on to the next hot topic.
Let's see what happens...

Sources:
https://www.livemint.com/Politics/vVvHqnrklMXtQI8upJOBMO.html
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/nagpur/t1s-cubs-lured-by-audio-of-tiger-moms-call/articleshow/66645479.cms
http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/nov/20/slain-tigress-avnis-11-months-old-cubs-may-be-left-alone-1900471.html Reply