Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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The 5-year-old, 180kg male ‘nomad’ tiger from Maharashtra, which made headlines in 2018 for the longest dispersal in the quickest time in the country, will have to spend the rest of its life behind bars for 3 human kills. 
Officers say the tiger was given enough chances to survive in the wild but it kept straying into human habitation. The authorities declared it ‘dangerous’ to human life in compliance with 2019 NTCA guidelines and decided to keep it in an enclosure.

He had wandered 510km from Chandrapur in Maharashtra to Palaspani in MP’s Betul — killing 2 people on the way — in search of new territory between August and December 2018. It was captured by Satpura Tiger Reserve officials from near a fly-ash pond in Sarni area on December 10, 2018 after another human casualty. Then he was shifted to Kanha where it was kept in a semi-wild enclosure for around 45 days, in order to acclimatise it with natural prey. It was permanently shifted to Van Vihar in Bhopal on Saturday.


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