The body of a nine year old tiger was found in the Terrai forest near Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand.
The tiger’s death has been related to natural reasons, mainly old age problems. "It is a male tiger and there is no sign of outer injury or marks on its body. It is an old tiger. We will conduct the postmortem today and then we will tell what really happened," said Nishant Verma, a forest official.
"The first instance here is that its paws are all torn and there are cracks in it. Also his claws are not sharp and are very blunt. It seems to be an old tiger and so there is the possibility of a natural death," Verma pointed out. Once the final results of the post mortem are revealed, the final reason of the death can be ascertained.
This is the third tiger that died at Corbett National Park within a fortnight. A pregnant tigress was found dead on 25th January and foresters shot dead a man-eater tiger on 27th January.
This year the Corbett National Park will celebrate its platinum jubilee year. The park named after hunter turned conservationist, Jim Corbett is one of the oldest National Parks in the country and has also been declared as Corebtt Tiger Reserve under Project Tiger of the Central Government.
Though celebrations for the platinum jubilee began in January with the introduction of a Special Tiger Protection Force for the big cats, most of the functions and programmes are scheduled to be held in March 2011.
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