Ustad: Man-eater or victim of man-animal conflict?

May 31, 2015 11:54

All living things contain within them some measure of madness that moves them in strange, inexplicable ways," wrote Yann Martel in Life of Pi. And the tiger known as T24, currently under scrutiny for his mauling of forest guard Rampal Saini on May 8, and his subsequent relocation to Sajjangarh Biological Park in Udaipur on May 17, was filled with it.

"You could always see it in his eyes," says tiger expert Valmik Thapar. T24 watched you, even when his back was turned. In return, Thapar never took his eyes off him, especially when his wife Sanjna and child were in the vicinity. Ranthambore forest guard's killing by maneater tiger an accident, says official.

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