A Royal Bengal Tiger Found Dead in Kaziranga National Park
After the terrible incidents of losing one-horned rhinos in the last couple of days in Kaziranga, forest department guards of the Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Wednesday found carcasses of Royal Bengal Tiger in the Bagori range. It was an adult male tiger. The continuous death of tiger and rhinos in KNP has alarmed environmentalists and park authorities. Forest officials suspecting the deaths to be a result of a fight between the two tigers. With the preliminary investigation by the State Veterinary Officer, reveal that the cat had died following a fight.
Tiger is a territorial animal and preferably, a male tiger needs around twenty square kilometer of territory and a female approx five square kilometers, according to a report published in a DTE. And there are almost twenty tigers per hundred square kilometers. This has triggered the competition for food and space. Tiger being a territorial animal, every adult male tigers tries to maintain his own space and territory and that only result into the fight among them. If any other male tiger trespasses its territory; the weaker male is most sufferer in the incident. Also, in the past few years the ecological profile of the park has changed at fast pace. Rainfall ratio has decreased and small water bodied inside the park drying up.
