The half-eaten body of a tiger cub was found in the Rounda beat of Kanha Tiger Reserve in Mandla in Madhya Pradesh, a forest department official said on Tuesday.
It appears the cub, around 14 months old, was killed by a tiger that wanted to mate with its mother, said the official.
"The cub's carcass was found on Monday by a forest team on elephant back. Pug and drag marks and bloods stains of two different tigers were found. The rear part of the cub had been eaten. We spotted a tiger and tigress, identified as T- 22, together some 70 metres away," he said.
The cub's carcass was disposed of as per National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) guidelines after autopsy, he said.
In a release, the forest department said, "It appears the male tiger had probably killed the cub to have the company of the tigress."
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