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  • Semi-wild tigress gives birth to two cubs in Panna Tiger Reserve

    Published on February 16, 2012

    Madhya Pradesh: In Madhya Pradesh, after successful experiment of reintroducing tigers, the Panna Tiger Reserve has added another feather in its cap.

    A five year old orphaned semi-wild tigress T-4 has given birth to two cubs in the Panna Tiger Reserve.

    According to field director of the Panna Tiger Reserve R S Murthy this is for the first time in the world that a semi-wild tigress shifted to the wild has adjusted to new environs and begotten cubs.

    This tigress was born in Kanha Tiger Reserve in 2006 and with in days her mother had died. She was then reared with her sister in an enclosure. Both the tigresses were shifted to Panna in March 2011.

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