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Name             : BM6 = Baghin Nalla
Location        : Pench National Park
Year of Birth : October 2005
Ancestry       : Daughter of Charger male and Badi Maa female
Status           : Live
Sex                : Female
Species          : panthera tigris tigris
 
Born to her mother Badi Maa in October 2005 and overseen by her father, the aggressive dominant male of the area, appropriately named Charger. Together with her sister, the famous Collared Tigress, and two brothers she grew up under the spotlight of the wildlife ‘Big Brother’ TV programme, as the four cubs of the ‘Spy in the Jungle’ series, which was to be such a huge hit around the world in 2008.
  
With the fame came the visitors, eager to see them as youngsters, and it’s not surprising that soon both here and her sister, like their mother, were quick to use these admirers and their transport to their advantage. As a family they were seen hunting their favourite meals stalking behind this human induced cover - and the results were almost always in their favour.
 
Soon after her sister was radio collared, they split up as a family and Baghin took over a part of the Eastern side of her mother’s territory. It is believed she had a single cub soon after in mid 2008, but it died at a young age.
 
By December 2009 Baghin had given birth to another set of what is believed to have been three cubs, though two were only ever confirmed, a male (BN2) and a female (BN3) cub. She was seen only occasionally, preferring the peace and quiet of the eastern part of the park, but was known to enjoy travelling outside the park and eating cattle or buffalo, much to the consternation of the Forest staff. Both her two youngsters grew to adulthood but their whereabouts are now unknown.


Less than two years since she last gave birth, in November 2011, Baghin had given birth to her third litter of three cubs, two sons (BN5 & BN6) and a daughter (BN7), near the Junewani road, which was under the control of the father, BMW. (MW1)
 
In August 2013, Baghin again gave birth to what is beleived to be four cubs in a fourth litter, under the protection of their father BMW.

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