Summary:
According to forest officials, Tigress T-60 was spotted with a cub in a trap camera in Ranthambore recently.
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According to forest officials, Tigress T-60 was spotted with a cub in a trap camera in Ranthambore recently.
This is the third time it has given birth.
T-60 aka Indu was spotted with the cub which is said to be a couple of months old.
“The tigress is around 7-year-old and previously had given birth to a total of four cubs.
The cub and the mother appear to be healthy and were spotted in zone-2 of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) following which we have increased the monitoring”, said a forest official.
The earlier born offspring are called T-97, T-98, T-99, and T-119.
Out of these, two are males while the other two are females.
Coincidentally T-119 was given the name on Tuesday, which is the same day when the tigress was spotted with the fifth cub.
Though it was a good news, the increasing tiger population in the reserve means that space is decreasing for the big cats.
The Ranthambore reserve has a core area of 392 sq-km with a buffer zone of 1,342 sq-km.