Tigers of Central India

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(04-01-2020, 10:46 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: @BorneanTiger, The gypsy tiger aka T1C1 of Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary has so far covered 3020 kilometres in 13 months and finally settled down in Dnyanganga Wildlife Sanctuary about 90 kilometres south of Melghat Tiger Reserve after wandering for about a year.

Throughout his journey, he has avoided humans (which is good) and also relied on wild prey not domestic ones to feed. The area where he has settled down has a good prey base of boars, chital and nilgai. The tiger seems to have made a core area of about 50 square kilometres his territory and looks to have settled down.

The NTCA held a meeting to discuss whether to release a mate for him in this sanctuary possibly from nearby Melghat Tiger Reserve.



Sub-adult T1C1 at Tipeshwar around 18 months old



T1C1 camera trapped on his epic journey last year.


https://indianexpress.com/article/india/walker-covers-over-3000-km-to-zero-in-on-his-new-home-6339818/

PCCF (wildlife) Nitin H Kakodkar:

“Currently, his home range includes Dnyanganga and forested areas outside the sanctuary. Since radio-collaring in February, the tiger was tracked for 13 months and received a total of 6,240 GPS locations. 
The tiger established its territory in the sanctuary and adjoining territorial areas under Jalgaon and Aurangabad divisions. Based on movement behaviour, the animal is using Dnyanganga as a core habitat and surrounding forest areas as a buffer to exploit the landscape.”

Bilal Habib, tiger scientist with WII:

“Over time the animal has achieved all the skills to survive and avoid humans. The animal is also having normal predation pattern in the sanctuary. From the date of collaring till March 28, 2020, C1 traversed a distance of 3,017km. An area of 52 sq km is being intensively used by the tiger inside the 205 sq km sanctuary.

Plans are afoot to release a female in Dnyanganga. An expert committee has been set up and a meeting of the panel was slated for March 22, but due to coronavirus lockdown the meeting could not be held.” Reply