Chennai, Sept 10 (BPNS)
Tamil Nadu Forest department has in its preliminary investigation found circumstantial evidence indicating that atleast one of the tigers that were found dead near Avalanche dam had consumed poison.
Contrary to its own early report, the forest department of Tamil Nadu on Sunday said that the two tigers were male instead of the earlier statement that they were tigresses. The forest department clarified that the two tigers were aged three and eight.
The forest department officials said that the carcass of a cattle was found in a decomposed stage near to the carcasses of the two tigers.
S. Gowtham, District Forest Officer (Nilgiris division ) told media persons that the tigers would have consumed the meat of the carcass of the cattle before their deaths.
The forest department officials said that the department is in the process of identifying the owner of the cattle and is conducting inquiries in the neighbouring villages on the same.
The postmortem report of the carcasses of the tigers found that there was meat, porcupine quills and hair in the stomach. There were also injuries to the vertebral coloumn of one of the tiger and it was due to fight with another animal.
The department is conducting a forensic analysis of the samples of the two tiger carcasses as well as the carcass of the cattle and is awaiting the report.
Tamil Nadu forest department has also registered a case with Wild Life Protection Act in Udhagai South Range.
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