The Panna Tiger Reserve management is now tending to one of the four cubs born to T1, a tigresses relocated under an ambitious plan to repopulate this habitat with tigers.
T1 gave birth to four cubs on February 16-17. This was her second litter in the new habitat. The tigress kept all the cubs at the same place for more than a month. Around midnight on March 29, she took two of them to another hideout, about two km away. The same night she returned and took away one of the two remaining cubs. After a gap of about 60 hours she returned to the original cave and spent about 11 hours with the fourth cub. She did not return here even once after leaving the spot on April 2. The park management used camera traps to monitor the cub all these days. To save the abandoned cub’s life, the Panna Tiger Reserve management, with the help of a team from the Wildlife Institute of India, on Thursday removed the cub from its original hideout in order to monitor its health and start alternative feeding.