Sundarbans (WB), March 01: Two tigers at Pirkhali forests have been fitted with radio collars to study their behaviour and to keep track of their whereabouts in Sundarbans, the world’s only mangrove eco-system which has big cats.
Eight more felines would be trapped and radio-collared, Field Director of Sundarbans Tiger Reserve (STR) Subrat Mukherjee told PTI.
“A tigress was caught on Saturday night in Pirkhali-5 jungle near Dobanki-Naubanki river in a trapping cage,” he said.
She was transferred to another cage with a lot of difficulties as a male tiger kept lingering during this mating season. The tiger was later tranquilised and both were radio- collared for release in the forest today, he said.
Officials of STR captured the wild cats and researchers from Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India were present.
–Agencies