Skeletal remains of tiger cub found

Bangalore, Mar 31 (PTI) Skeletal remains of a tiger cub was found in the Maddur range of the Bandipur national park near a cattle kill today, taking the death toll of the predator to six in the past eight months.

"Evidently, the cub, about eight months old, might have died eight days ago. Though the carcass was found deep in the forest near a cattle kill, post mortem did not indicate food poisoning" Karnataka Chief Wildlife Warden, B K Singh.

According to Sanjay Gubbi of Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS), there was nothing left of the cattle kill and the cub.

There is concern that its mother might have perished after sharing the kill with its cub. "Normally a mother does not abandon a cub so young. There was concern that the tigress may also have died. But there were no such indication," Gubbi said.