Tigers of Ranthambore & Western India Landscape

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Rajasthan will seek Missing Ranthambore tigers in Northern MP

By: Sudhir Bile Bhatnagar

Published: 24 June, 2020

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For almost 5 months now the tigers T-42 Fateh & T-47 Mohan have been off the radar of forest department in the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve.

Currently T-66, T-97 as well as a tigress T-54 are contesting between themselves the territories of T-47... Similarly two males T-108 & T-58 are trying to take control of the territories of Fateh in Phillauri range and Zone 10.
Ranthambore was already in controversy for constant disappearance of its young tigers without trace. This time both dominant males had been settled in their respective territories for several years before now. File territorial aggression & infights had always been frequent, these tigers have not been found in as injured or dead.

Fortunately there had been no evidence of them being poached as well. FD claims that there are forests across Chambal in Madhya Pradesh, right opposite of Dangarwara Area of ​​Phalodi Range of Ranthambore.

NTCA has instructed the stare forest service to now work jointly with Madhya Pradesh counterparts & look for traces of these tigers, as well as those that may have previously crossed into the neighbouring state. It had long been known that forests around Kuno-Palpur at any time hosts all at least half-a-dozen of Ranthambore transient tigers, however there had been no evidence of females moving into the area and breeding.
However now the combing operation is expected to find them in the area if young male and female tigers from Ranthambore had indeed been moving into Madhya Pradesh due to space constraints. Reply