Tigers of Central India

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(11-14-2018, 04:42 PM)Rishi Wrote: Good news brother!

The 2-year-old tiger from Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (CSTPS) near Tadoba buffer has miraculously reached the periphery of Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh...
Chanda big cat close to Satpura Tiger Reserve

Colombus (Yeah i just named him).
Pic Courtesy: Forest department

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Travelling 420 kms in about 80-85 days, through fragmented forest patches in fairly densely populated human dominated landscape, he had just see a new record of longest journey made by any Indian tiger.
(Technically it may become 450km as he is still 30km-odd away from Satpura, but hasn't moved this week & is in a place with good prey-base.)

Another ultimate news about migrations and gene pool of tiger!
Scientists unravels the mystery of Lalgarh tiger, which had made the forests of Jhargram’s erstwhile
Maoist zone, West Midnapore and Bankura, its home for over two months this summer — had come from the forests of central India, an astonishing 900km away, and not
Odisha’s Simlipal as was earlier thought, suggests DNA analysis.

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The speculative journey of the big cat, a full-grown male, would make it one of the longest tiger migrations ever: over 1,000km, since it didn’t travel as the crow flies.

This has renewed hope about possible tiger-migration routes between central India and Bengal and underscores the need to protect forest corridors.
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https://m.timesofindia.com/city/kolkata/lalgarh-tiger-had-bandhavgarh-dna/articleshow/66743350.cms Reply