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(02-28-2019, 02:19 PM)Lycaon Wrote: I really don't buy this natural causes. Let's hope this is not the only tiger in gujarat.

Surveillance to continue to ascertain if there are more tigers

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File photo of a tiger that was captured on camera recently

The tiger found in Mahisagar district may have died, but the forest department is continuing to keep vigil in the area.

The department has continued surveillance by trap cameras as well as patrolling by foot to ascertain if other striped big cats exist in the area.

The department does not have many takers for the theory that more tigers – particularly a family with cubs – exist in the area, but the residents of some deep forest areas have been maintaining that there are more tigers there.

After the sighting of the tiger that was found dead on Tuesday, the belief among villagers has grown only stronger despite the fact that it has been established that the dead tiger is the same as the one from Ratapani in Madhya Pradesh.

Quote:“We have not removed the 12 trap cameras that were installed to photograph the tiger when it was spotted in the area earlier this month. But so far, we have not come across any other tiger. Several other animals have been spotted in the cameras,” said deputy forest conservator (Mahisagar) R M Parmar.

Staffers of the forest department have been patrolling the area where the only tiger photographed so far was moving.

However, even they have not been able to spot any other tiger so far. The cameras as well as the patrolling will continue in the coming days.

Parmar said that some pugmarks and scat were found in the area, but it came to light that these were of the same tiger that had died.

At the same time, the cameras have revealed that wild boars, four-horned antelopes and blue bulls exist in the area in good numbers. If at all there are more tigers, they have sufficient prey base in the area.

Tiger last preyed 10 days before death

The tiger that was found dead on Tuesday had preyed on four goats on February 15. After this there was no known kill by the tiger till its carcass was found in the forest area near Signali.

The four goats could have been the last prey it had unless it killed any other wild animal and the kill went unnoticed. Sources in the forest department said that the tiger can go without food for more than a week, but usually eats about once a week.

1. Tiger is capable of hunting any type of wild prey as dept says that chousinga, wildboar and nilgai are in good numbers. Albeit Tiger is also in prime. Let us think that, tiger didn't had found wild prey to hunt, then it will not hesitate to kill domestic cattle. So the tiger mightn't died of hunger and last kill of 4 goats is not much time to starve to death and the tiger is said to returning to MP.

2. The only thing left is villagers poisoned. NO snake and other s***. Reply