The Forest Department has found “circumstantial evidence” indicating that at least one of the two tigers that were found dead on Saturday could have been poisoned, officials said.
They clarified that contrary to preliminary reports on Saturday, that the two animals were tigresses, the animals were in fact male tigers, aged three and eight respectively. The carcasses were found near Emerald in the Nilgiris Forest Division.
S. Gowtham, District Forest Officer (Nilgiris Division), said all the body parts of the animals were intact. However, he said, the Department staff, when perambulating the area, discovered the decomposed carcass of a cattle close to where the tiger carcasses were found.
