THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tholpetty 17, the 10-year-old male tiger that was captured from Kenichira in Wayanad, was brought to the Thiruvananthapuram Zoo on Sunday. The tiger was captured by South Wayanad forest sub-division authorities in Kenichira on June 23 after it strayed into human habitation. But the officials decided the Thiruvananthapuram Zoo would be the ideal spot to shift the animal as …
In an encouraging step, two male cheetahs brought from Namibia to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh for reintroduction of the animal to India, made their first kill within 24 hours of being released from a quarantine area to a larger acclimatisation enclosure. The successful first hunt by the cheetahs within 24 hours of moving to the larger enclosure …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter on Sunday to share his excitement on the release of two cheetahs to a bigger enclosure from the quarantine area in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park where they were kept since translocated from Namibia in mid-September. Two cheetahs were released in the larger enclosure from the quarantine zones on Saturday, KNP Divisional Forest …
Elton and Freddie, the two cheetahs who spent 50 days in quarantine after being translocated from Namibia, were released in a six km sq-enclosure at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur on Saturday, a forest department official said. Eight cheetahs from Namibia were translocated to Kuno National Park on September 17. “The other six will be released before …