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Jun 2019
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(Photo: Reuters)
A male tiger — ST-16 — brought from Ranthambore to Sariska in April is no more.
According to the officials, they operated on his injured leg on Saturday after it was tranquilised. Then ST-16 was released in the forest but later the officials recovered its dead body.
If numbers are to be believed, with ST-16’s death, now there’s one male tiger for eight tigresses in Sariska.
Sariska, which had lost all its tigers more than a decade ago, had been getting the tigers from Ranthambore.
The loss of male tigers has led to a dwindling male population.