Tigers of Ranthambore & Western India Landscape

[Rishi]

(03-08-2019, 08:07 PM)Sanju.... Wrote: happy to see there is adequate tiger sub population in kuno to become meta population and as functional corridor to madhav np and there after other reserves and parks to mitigate inbreeding risk naturally instead of spending money on man made solutions of translocation by transferring individuals in regular time intervals to maintain genepool health.

Not really, it's quite the opposite true rather.

While Ranthambore's tiger numbers have been surging, the females have barely move out. The known tigers that moved towards Kuno-Palpur post 2010 were all males... Every single one of them!

Other than T-38, there's another known male there called T-71 (clicked in 2015).

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Kailadevi's resident male Sultanhimself to & froed between Kuno-Kailadevi during 2012-15, before he finally found T-92 & settled.

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The male cub of T-26 called Tufaan, went to Kuno & returned by December 2016, now back in Kailadevi.

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Another of her cubs, young male T-77 may also be there.

The male cub of T-30 (reached Kuno in Feb, 2018).

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Due to complete absence of females in all of northern Madhya Pradesh, both national parks Kuno & Madhav are completely devoid of a stable tiger population.
Either visiting transient males don't settle there at all.. or after failing to find a mate even after searching the whole region for years, they just give up like T-38 & waste away rest of their lives. Reply