Tigers of Ranthambore & Western India Landscape

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MT-1 & MT-2 together in Mukundara Hills

There is special news from Mukundara Tiger Reserve. After waiting for 1 long month MT-1 is getting to know his mate. Distance between the two's location have been decreasing since last week, now both of them are being sighted together for two days as per forest department.

Department officials are also assuming that it is a good sign of the future. According to the success, another tigresses is expected to be shifted to Mukundara by mid-February .

Due to peculiar shadow of the reserve, the tigers were being exposed in a 82sq.km fenced area to prevent them from straying after release. That is soon to be removed & they will be free to train the 200sq.km Darah Zone that can host more than 15 tigers.

Full details:
https://m.patrika.com/kota-news/mukunda-...p-3998719/

Another Ranthambore tiger in Bundi district
(All names are G-map links as usual)

A young male tiger crossed the Chambal river, via Keshavraipatan area of Bundi have reached Mandavari area of Sultanpur range.
Before this he was last seen in a rugged area near a farm, where he hunted a Nilgai, at Laxmipura village of Notada (Dharwan) Panchayat.
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The forest workers of Bundi district, tracking him Saturday morning, informed the officials in Kota district about fresh pugmarks of the tiger.
Now for the purpose of monitoring the tiger, the duty of the forest workers has been imposed for 24/7. Camera-traps are also going to be laid once his position is located, for identification. But he hasn't stopped moving yet, his age is being described as 7-8 years & guessed to be T-62 or T-110.

In the river ravines & scrubland of Sultanpur range, a tigress T-35 had already come from Ranthambore & lived for nearly five years as the corridor ends there. She is believed to have later been poached.

This tiger too might get stranded there, if he's taken that wrong route. Otherwise, with luck, he might reach Mukundara!

Sources:
https://m.patrika.com/kota-news/tiger-62...s-4003562/
https://m.patrika.com/kota-news/tiger-co...e-3993731/
https://m.patrika.com/sawai-madhopur-new...a-4002825/

Edit:
As per latest update today morning the tiger's photo was captured & he turned out to be T-110, age is about 2.5 to 3 years old..

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9 years after the T-35, tiger T-110 has entered the Sultanpur area through the Bundi area through the gullies along the banks of Chambal river that separates the Bundi & Kota districts.

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The river goes through Mukundara hills, but before that about 50kms from Ranthambore, the eroded barren thickets give way to farmland & ultimately the city of Kota.

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He has got absolutely no chance of reaching Mukundara naturally, just like T-35 before him.

Source:
https://www.bhaskar.com/rajasthan/kota/n...10301.html Reply