Old Tigress From Rajaji Tiger Reserve Missing For A Year Now

Rajaji Tiger Reserve Director Dharmesh Kumar Singh admitted that the tigress has reached its upper age limit

An old tigress has been missing from Uttarakhand's Rajaji Tiger Reserve for a year and all efforts to trace her so far have failed. When captured in a camera trap in 2005, experts had guessed its age to be five years. Going by that, the tigress should be 21 years old now, which is considered the upper age limit for any big cat in wild conditions, officials said. Rajaji Tiger Reserve Director Dharmesh Kumar Singh admitted that the tigress has reached its upper age limit and no evidence of its presence in the wild has been found so far. A 21-year-old tigress named Machli in Rajasthan's Ranthambore Tiger Reserve and famous all over the world as Lady of The Lake had breathed her last in the presence of the reserve authorities.