Territorial fight claims tiger cub's life in Ranthambore

JAIPUR: In yet another territorial fight at Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur, a 12-month-old male cub was found mauled to death. The carcass of the cub of tigress T-8 was found in Kundal region (Zone 6) of the park.

"During a safari around 10 am on March 6, tourists heard noises and spotted two tigers fighting. The next day when tigress T-8 was spotted with only one cub, we started searching for the other and found his badly mutilated body under a ficus tree in Zone 6. There were injury marks all over the body. The neck bone, the femur and the ribs were cracked and the kidney was punctured. T-8 had two cubs, one male and the other female and there is a possibility that the tigress could also be injured," said Y K Sahu, field director, Ranthambore National Park.

The body has been cremated after post-mortem and samples were taken for forensic examination.