Tigress

Authorities in Bengal Safari Park in Siliguri have launched a probe into the death of three tiger cubs after their mother accidentally bit them on their necks while shifting them together from one part of the enclosure to another, an official said. The cubs, born to tigress 'Rika' at the open-air zoo in Siliguri last week, died after their trachea was punctured as the big cat was trying to take her children inside the night shelter enclosure on Thursday. Senior West Bengal Zoo Authority member Sourav Choudhury told PTI "Rika accidentally killed the three cubs as she was taking them away from the night shelter to another part of the enclosure." "However, we have launched a probe to ascertain the circumstances," he said. The probe team consists of senior forest, zoo officials and one vet. Senior forest officials are also talking to the zoo keepers, handlers and ascertaining the behaviour and mood of the tigress before the incident, afterwards and kept her under watch though she has

A radio-collared tigress was found dead in Madhya Pradesh's Panna Tiger Reserve, a senior forest official said on Sunday.

The postmortem report issued recently stated that the bullet which killed the tigress entered from the rear part of its left forelimb

She had been refusing food and water for some time; was under observation at Ama Ghati