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Modern weights and measurements on wild tigers

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Shocking images show man-eating tiger shot dead and paraded through street
THE body of a man-eating tigress was paraded through the streets after her deadly reign of terror was brought to an end with 11 rifle shots.

By STUART WINTER
PUBLISHED: 14:04, Fri, Oct 21, 2016 | UPDATED: 14:18, Fri, Oct 21, 2016

For 44 days, the authorities had tracked the powerful big cat in attempt to take her alive – even though she had already killed three villagers.

Helicopters, drones, tracker dogs and 150 personnel, including five sharp-shooters on elephant-back, were put on the trail of the predator who had been dubbed the Sugarcane Tigress – her favourite hunting habitat.

There were hopes that the £100,000 operation would end with forest rangers darting the tiger with a sedative close to the outskirts of India’s famous Jim Corbett National Park.

Uttarakhand chief warden of forest and wildlife D V S Khati today: “Although she was a man eater, our priority was to tranquillise her but we had to fire bullets to kill her after many failed attempts to capture her."

Eleven shots from marksmen finally brought the tiger down in a sugarcane field near the village of Gorakhpur, about 100 miles north of New Delhi.

News of the killing sparked scenes of celebration with the tiger’s 300lb body paraded on shoulders and displayed in front of cameras.

Officials finally called the celebrations off as a mark of respect to the endangered creature.

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The six-year-old Sugarcane Tigress’s terror reign began last month when she killed three people

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Head of the search, Parag Madhukar Dhakate, a regional conservator of forests, explained how the animal was finally tracked down.

“The tigress was spotted in the morning near a drain at Gorakhpur village with the help of camera traps,” he told the Times of India. 

“Our team approached the big cat with shooters mounted on three elephants. The animal was put down after a few hours of the operation.”

The six-year-old Sugarcane Tigress’s terror reign began early last month when she killed three people and injured another four as she seemed to get a taste for human blood while stalking sugar cane plantations.

While more than 100 leopards have been declared as man-eaters across the region, tigers preying on humans is an extremely rare event but this did not stop widespread panic ensuing with villagers refusing to leave their homes after sunset and students staying away from schools.

Tigers preying on humans is an extremely rare event

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Dhananjai Mohan, additional principal chief conservator of forests, Uttarakhand, said: “An animal is declared a man eater after it has killed human beings repeatedly. 

"If a man-eater is in the dense forest area and there is a possibility of it not digressing towards a human habitat, it can either be captured or shot. But in this case, the animal was on prowl in highly populated areas and had become a cause of terror for the local people. 

"So it was necessary to put it down.”

One local said: “Our life had become difficult. We could not venture out at night or go into our fields. 

"The tigress had made it very difficult for us to reap our crops. Now we have to breathe and get back to our normal farming.” 

“We also had to be careful with our children. The tigress was a big threat in our villagers here.”
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