MP: 19 swamp deer brought from Kanha National Park released in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
The 11 male and 8 female deer were brought in a special truck from the Kanha National Park which is around 200 kilometres away from the tiger reserve.
The 11 male and 8 female deer were brought in a special truck from the Kanha National Park which is around 200 kilometres away from the tiger reserve.
In May Kanha seemed good enough buck country with the maidans very open after the early summer burning, but I believe that with the rains the grass and herbs grow fast and are two to three feet in most places.
Kahna offers exceptional amenities to a herbivore that is mainly a grazer like the gaur, for the rolling maidans offer it excellent pastures.
There is no definite rut, confined to a particular season or part of the year, among chital, even in North India.
The old saying that two tigers cannot share a hill does not hold at Kanha National Park.
In all sanctuaries poaching is difficult to eliminate completely and it is also something that has a much more harmful potency when the population of a species is already much reduced by hunting or other causes.
There are two subspecies of the swamp deer, one inhabiting swampy ground and marshes in the Terai, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and the Sunderbans, which has somewhat spongy and splayed hooves and a comparatively larger skull.
Tribal women of the Mukki zone are taking over male-dominated jobs in the region.
Don’t worry if you haven’t spotted a tiger yet, it has already seen you,” said Naren Mallik, a safari expert…
