A six-month-old feminine tiger cub was rescued from a effectively and reunited with its mom 10 hours later in Chandrapur district on Wednesday.
The forest division stated it bought details about the cub falling right into a farm’s effectively in Chichpalli vary of Chandrapur at 8.30 am on Wednesday morning. The effectively didn’t have a parapet wall, which regularly results in such incidents of animals falling inside.
A fast response workforce from Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve together with senior forest and veterinary officers have been despatched to the spot. The workforce succeeded in pulling the tiger cub out of the effectively round 11.30 am, following which it was put inside a cage.
The cub was taken to Chandrapur’s Transit Treatment Centre for a check-up and located to be match. Even as officers have been planning to reunite the cub with its mom, they bought details about a tigress calling out close to the spot the place the cub was discovered.
The officers then rushed the cub to the spot. A workforce led by Divisional Forest Officer Sarika Jagtap, consisting of Range Forest Officer Vaibhav Rajurkar, forest guard Rakesh Gurnule, veterinary physician Kundan Pochalwar and consultant of NGO Wildlife Protection Society of India, Mukesh Bhandakkar, have been on the spot round 8.30 pm.
“In about an hour’s time, the tigress came and started making frantic calls for the cub. The cub also started responding. When the tigress came within two feet of the cage, the door was lifted. The cub jumped out and the tigress, accompanied by another cub, walked away with the two,” Bhandakkar stated.
Last yr, an identical operation had failed. Officials didn’t raise the door of the cage as they have been apprehensive that the mom was not shut sufficient to the cage. The cub was subsequently moved to Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai.
