An adult tigress was killed and eaten by a tiger at Kanha National Park of Madhya Pradesh, in a rare case of cannibalism.“The animal that got killed seems to be a tigress while the cannibal is a tiger. “It is an extension of the territorial fight ,” said an expert. Kanha in-fighting could be explained as it has a good population of tigers. “It is rare where the tiger’s body has been eaten to such an extent even when the area has a good prey base,” Krishnamurthy added. According to experts, the hunting tiger did not mean to satiate its hunger by eating the tigress. Though there have been instances of cannibalism among animals, but in tigers, it is rare,” said Kanha’s field director K Krishnamurthy, adding that the killing might be a result of a “territorial fight.”The partial remains of the tigress were found by a patrol team at Mundidadar on Saturday.
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