CUBS OF TIGRESS AVNI,SHOT FOR KILLING 13,SPOTTED

Days after T1 was shot dead on November 2, her cubs were sighted after a gap of 14 days by monitoring teams in the wee hours of  Thursday at Vihirgaon. They were later spotted near the Anji dam. Like T1 was lured by tigress urine and Calvin Klein perfume in Borati for capture, the two elusive cubs were lured by playing a voice recorder of a tigress calling her cubs. These calls were originally recorded a year back from a forest area open for tourism. The cubs look healthy and travelled 7.5km to Anji from Vihirgaon during the night, which is astonishing .

The cubs moving around the mothers trail seem did not consume meat put by department to lure them, but it is possible they must have killed any small animal to feed themselves.The two cubs will be shifted to a big enclosure in Pench Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra ,where they will be trained to hu t and later released back in the wild.

                                                                                                                               (TOI)