Clicked! Tiger eating tiger in Kanha

Bhopal | Saturday | 23rd March, 2019

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This tiger was guarding its kill and we are observing its behaviour,” said Kanha Tiger Reserve (KTR) field director L Krishnamurthy. Bhopal: Kanha rangers were watching over a rotting tiger carcass on Friday when a tiger came along. And thanks to their cameras, now so can you.Forest officials told TOI it was tiger T56 that killed T36 in Magarnala beat of Kanha’s Kisli Range. The tiger is still sitting over its ‘kill’, and foresters haven’t been able to recover the carcass.It is the fifth instance of tiger cannibalism recorded in Kanha in the last three months, raising concern among environmentalists, especially for the younger ones. What they saw next left them stunned — the tiger started feeding off the carcass.The rangers had only heard of cannibalism by tigers, never seen it..