Two radio-collared tigers found dead in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve
Hindustan TimesTwo of the three tigers who were radio-collared in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve and helped understand an unknown aspect of feline behaviour - the brotherhood of inseparable cubs Heera and Panna in July - died this month, officials said on Friday. The state forest department and WII planned to fit radio collars to study the behaviour of 14 tigers living outside the reserve’s core zone of about 15,000 sq km--the Panna landscape. All the body parts were found intact and there were no injury marks suggesting a territorial fight,” said UK Sharma, field director, Panna Tiger Reserve. “But now, the collars will be fitted on other tigers,” Sharma said the Centre and WII choose the reserve for the study after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation included it in the Man and Biosphere programme.