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Leopard Killed In Territorial Fight With Tiger In Ramgarh Vishdhari Reserve | Jaipur News
Kota: The body of a 9-year-old leopard with deep wounds around its neck and back was recovered on Thursday noon from Jaitpur range of Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve (RVTR) core area in Bundi district. Prima facie, the animal was killed in territorial fight with the tiger, RVT – 1 sometimes at night.
The male leopard was killed in a territorial fight with tiger RVT – 1 in Jaitpur range in RVTR, said chief conservator of forest (CCF) Sharda Prasad Singh. The tracking team of the department at around 12 pm on Thursday reported that they had recovered a freshly killed body of a leopard in Motipura Katla area of Jaitpura range, the core area of the reserve, he added. The body bore deep wounds by canines around the neck that was punctured, on skull and deep wounds by claws over back that went deep to puncture organs of the animal and such fatal wounds could not caused by any other animal than the tiger, RVT – 1, having its movement around the area while the tigress was also moving around nearby, added Singh.
It was a 9-year-old male leopard and the body was disposed of as per norms after the postmortem by a medical board later in the day on Thursday, he said.
There are around two dozen leopards in RVTR, said former wildlife warden Prathvi Singh Rajawat. Meanwhile, wildlife enthusiast Bitthal Sanadhya termed the killing of a leopard in territorial fight with tiger a major failure of monitoring by Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve management.
The monitoring team should have heard the roaring of the tiger in the fight and on the bases of pug marks, they should have pre-ascertained the movement of the animals in the same place, said Sanadhya. Moreover, the forest officials concealed the killing of the leopard throughout the day and did not inform wildlife activists, he added.
The male leopard was killed in a territorial fight with tiger RVT – 1 in Jaitpur range in RVTR, said chief conservator of forest (CCF) Sharda Prasad Singh. The tracking team of the department at around 12 pm on Thursday reported that they had recovered a freshly killed body of a leopard in Motipura Katla area of Jaitpura range, the core area of the reserve, he added. The body bore deep wounds by canines around the neck that was punctured, on skull and deep wounds by claws over back that went deep to puncture organs of the animal and such fatal wounds could not caused by any other animal than the tiger, RVT – 1, having its movement around the area while the tigress was also moving around nearby, added Singh.
It was a 9-year-old male leopard and the body was disposed of as per norms after the postmortem by a medical board later in the day on Thursday, he said.
There are around two dozen leopards in RVTR, said former wildlife warden Prathvi Singh Rajawat. Meanwhile, wildlife enthusiast Bitthal Sanadhya termed the killing of a leopard in territorial fight with tiger a major failure of monitoring by Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve management.
The monitoring team should have heard the roaring of the tiger in the fight and on the bases of pug marks, they should have pre-ascertained the movement of the animals in the same place, said Sanadhya. Moreover, the forest officials concealed the killing of the leopard throughout the day and did not inform wildlife activists, he added.
