T-4 has become the world’s first feline reared in captivity. T-4 is a five-year-old orphaned semi-wild tigress who was shifted to wilds to birth two cubs, at the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Madhya Pradesh.
Among two cubs, one was spotted by a PTR official. PTR had lost all its tigers in 2009 and the big cats were subsequently reintroduced to revive population.
But now at PTR, big cats toll number has risen to 13 after two translocated wild tigresses had delivered eight cubs, out of which six had survived.
But these two were not hand-reared and shifted, like T-4, the world’s first feline reared in captivity.
This is for the first time that a semi-wild tigress shifted to the wilds has adjusted to new environs and begotten cubs. Read more
