It turns out a tiger can change its stripes, in a manner of speaking. The black tiger Odisha’s Similipal National Park is home to the world’s only population of pseudo-melanistic tigers in the wild. “We know it’s a recessive trait, which means that any tiger presenting as pseudo-melanistic has received two copies of the gene, one each from the father …
Over a third of India’s wild tiger population resides outside the 50 tiger reserves, the latest All-India Tiger Population Estimation Report has revealed. As many as 1,923 tigers or 65% the total tiger population was found inside tiger reserves and the rest were estimated to have a range that was largely found in neighbouring forest blocks, the government’s report on …
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