By Satyendra Siddhartha
“Forest officials of Ranthambore National Park said that the postmortem report of the tiger has revealed severe injuries on the head and two bones inside crushed. The brain of the tiger had been damaged badly that caused death.”
Ranthambore National Park, News Update: The tiger T-25 of Rajasthan, popularly known as caring father who nurtured two orphaned cubs, has been killed in a territorial fight with another young tiger; postmortem report has revealed.
The male Tiger T-25 was found dead on Monday on the outskirts of Ranthambore National Park by forest department guards who were on patrolling. The carcass of the tiger was found in the Khandar range of the Sanctuary. This news came in limelight when state Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot prompted and mourned his death in a tweet on Monday. This ferocious tiger became popular for its unusual behavior for rearing two motherless cubs who had lost their mother tigress in a infection related illness.
Forest officials of Ranthambore National Park said that the postmortem report of the tiger has revealed severe injuries on the head and two bones inside crushed. The brain of the tiger had been damaged badly that caused death.
The death of the tiger was not natural as confirmed by the forest official. According to the post-mortem doctors, the death of Tiger T-25 was found to be in conflict with another male tiger over the territory, not natural death. In another adult tiger attack, the T-25 suffered deep head and neck injuries, breaking his head bones which led to his death. The officials and staff of the forest department, who reached the spot, captured the tiger’s body and brought it to the Rajbagh forest post where the tiger’s body was cremated.
Movement of T-54 and T-66 have been found
According to forest sources, the death of T-25 is likely to be a mutual fight with one of tiger T-54 and tiger T-66. Recently, the movement of tiger T-54 and T-66’s was seen back and forth by the staff of Forest Department. The T-25 did not maintain any permanent area or territory of its own. In a recent years the tiger’s -25 movement was captured in the area around the Kachida Mata Temple, near zone five.