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Carcasses of a tiger and 2 pistillate cubs were recovered successful antithetic parts of Madhya Pradesh's Kanha Tiger Reserve (KTR) connected the aforesaid time and were disposed of aft the post-mortem revealed that they were killed by different large cats, an authoritative said connected Friday (October 3, 2025).
The deceased large cat, aged astir 8 to 10 years old, has been identified arsenic the "Balaghat Male Tiger", who was often sighted by visitors astatine the reserve, helium said.
He was recovered dormant successful the Mukhi scope connected Thursday, the authoritative said.
The tiger, weighing 170 to 180 kg, had wounds inflicted connected its trachea, suggesting it succumbed successful a combat with different large cat, helium told PTI.
The reserve extends up to Balaghat, a Naxal-affected territory that shares borders with Mandla.
For the past mates of days, the tiger had been hanging astir successful the buffer area, and perchance wandered into the halfway area, landing successful the territory of different large feline that killed it, the authoritative said.
The carcass was consigned to flames arsenic per the guidelines of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), helium added.
Two pistillate cubs recovered successful the Kanha scope connected Thursday were killed by an big tiger, the authoritative said.
According to officials, the past tiger number revealed that the KTR had the highest fig of 137 large cats successful the State.
Madhya Pradesh is location to 785 tigers, the highest successful the country, according to the census conducted successful 2022.
