MYSORE: The Bandipur tiger which was netted on Thursday has suffered severe starvation.
It has grown weak owing to starvation but is agile, the vets treating the tiger at the Mysore Zoo, said on Sunday.
Hours after it was brought from Chikkabaragi in H D Kote on Thursday, the big cat drank water but didn't show interest in eating. On Friday it consumed eight kilos of beef fed to him on two occasions.
Given his hunger, it is clear that he has suffered starvation for long which could have made him desperate, sources told TOI. "He has now come out of sedation after tranquilization. That he is drinking water and eating meat fed to him indicates that he normal now. But the problem is he is not given to human presence and gets meek when there are humans around him. But he has tried to escape during night time and broken his canine tooth," they explained.
The tiger now informally called Shiva is housed at the zoo hospital.
The zoo vets have removed quills of a porcupine from his jaw and neck region, which, they believe, has allowed him to get normal and eat well. Since he is eating well, we have increased the ration and feeding him ten kilos of beef on Saturday, the chief vet Suersh Kumar told TOI. The blood samples have indicated that he is suffering from severe infection and the we've has started treatment from Friday night, he stated.
Sources said there are other minor injuries on his body but they are not serious. When Brahma was shifted to the zoo, he was ferocious and tried hard to enclosure. The recently captured tiger is docile, an official pointed out.
Brahma was believed to be eight years old when he was captured from
Brahmagiri wildlife sanctuary in Kodagu and shifted to the Mysore facility in 2008. He was suspected to be attacking cattle on the border areas of Nagarahole. Brahma was in isolation for some two years and was allowed in the moat after he became docile. Incidentally he helped the zoo to create a new gene pool as he sired four cubs.
The zoo officials are sending the samples for scat analysis to Hyderabad on Monday to conclusively establish that it indeed is man-eater. As of now, the zoo officials are suspecting that it could have killed humans and devoured one of them as feared by the villagers on the forest fringes.
The detailed analysis will clear whether it is a man-eater. We are collecting the fecal matter since Friday and will send the sample of four days on Monday. The lab testing at Hyderabad will reveal whether it ate human flesh, sources said adding that the experts will study the hair follicle. If the scat analysis indicates that there were human hair, it can be conclusively said that he has devoured human, they explained.
This is significant as the forest department nabbed a tiger at Hebballa on Nagarahole fringes on August 25, 2012 after a tribal woman was found dead and her body devoured by a big cat. Scat analysis later established that he was not a man-eater.
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