Forest department monitoring injured tiger in Udhagamandalam

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The injured tiger resting astatine  a beverage  property  astatine  Porthi colony   adjacent   Udhagamandalam connected  January 4, 2026.

The injured tiger resting astatine a beverage property astatine Porthi colony adjacent Udhagamandalam connected January 4, 2026. | Photo Credit: M. Sathyamoorthy

The wood section is continuing to show an injured tiger that has been recuperating wrong a backstage beverage property successful Porthi colony adjacent Udhagamandalam municipality implicit the past 2 days.

Forest section officials said the carnal was recovered with injuries with those caused owed to in-fighting betwixt 2 ample predators, astir apt sustained successful a combat with different tiger.

The carnal was noticed by section residents, who informed the wood department. Staff and officials from the Udhagai South Forest Range said that the carnal was being monitored utilizing thermal drones and that it had moved a fewer 100 feet from wherever it was past seen connected Saturday (January 3).

Officials said arsenic the closest reserve wood was little than a 100 meters from wherever the tiger is presently being seen, that they expect it to instrumentality into the wood by Monday (January 5). “Veterinarians from the wood section are besides monitoring the situation. The carnal has besides shown betterment since yesterday with respect to it being capable to move,” said the official.

The wood section besides released drone images of the tiger that was recorded connected Sunday (January 4, 2026), with the carnal resting wrong beverage bushes. They said that the precedence was keeping tabs connected the carnal and guarantee that radical bash not task adjacent to it to forestall immoderate accidental, antagonistic encounters betwixt itself and people.

Published - January 04, 2026 04:00 p.m. IST

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