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Sources pointed out that no expert from Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, was present during the process.Fresh photographs suggest that the injury could be a fallout of a radio collar wrongly installed. She was tranquilized on January 28 and treated at the reserve.The collar on the tigress was fixed at the Ranthambhore tiger reserve before she was relocated to the MHTR on December 18, 2018. Injury cause by tiger canine is far more severe and bigger,” said Dr Akhilesh Mishra, wildlife veterinarian at Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.Experts from the Rajasthan forest department, however, disagreed. “From what appears in the picture, the collar was wrongly installed. While the forest officials deny this theory, they believe the wound has been caused by a male tiger who dug his teeth into the tigress’s neck.The two-and-a-half-yearold tigress MT2 was acquired from Ranthambore, and her wound was found infested with maggots..