Eight Months After Maneating Tigress Avni Was Shot Dead, Officials Are Unable To Find Her Cub
Eight months after the hunt for the Pandharkawda maneater tigress T1 ended in her controversial death at the hands of a sharpshooter, the tigress¡¯s cub, T1C1, is giving forest officials a hard time, evading every trap laid out for him. So far,
Eight months after Tigress Avni known as T1 was killed after a series of manhunt incidents, one of the tigress¡¯ cub T1C1 is still giving officials a tough time as it hasn¡¯t been traced yet and every trap laid by officials in Yavatmal, Maharashtra has failed.
Last November, tigress Avni was killed after 53 days of entire forest machinery including drones and sniffer dogs failed to nab. After she was shot dead which invoked a lot of controversy whether she could have been caught and a precious tiger life could have saved, one of her cubs was not found, The Indian Express reported.
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The officials feared that their mother who was accused of maneating, would have left her ¡°imprint¡±on them. The two cubs- T1C1 who is male cub and his female sibling T1C1, both were about a year old.
While T1C2 was captured 50 days after Avni¡¯s death and was sent to Pench Tiger Reserve, T1C1 still continues to elude officials making it the longest operation to nab a wild cat.
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¡°We are still tracking him. But all his movements are at night when our Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) prohibits us from using a tranquillisation shot. It is as if he got wind of our SOP restriction,¡± said Maharashtra PCCF (Wildlife) Nitin Kakodkar.
