The adult Royal Bengal Tiger that has eluded forest officials on several occasions and has given them many sleepless nights over the course of several weeks now seems to have fully adapted to its new habitat, as it has completed a ‘preliminary investigation’ across the length and breadth of the territory along the Polavaram project canal in Kakinada district.
On April 27, some pugmarks, believed to belong to the same tiger, were recorded for the first time at S. Kota in Vizianagaram Agency. Nearly six weeks after its search for a safe habitat, the male tiger that is thought to have attained breeding age seems to have settled in Kakinada district for good.
Given its movements over the last three weeks, its pattern of cattle kills and night stays near water bodies in Kakinada district, the tiger seems to have settled in well in a landscape where it initially encountered many challenges but has managed to get the better of every threat.
