Tigress,cubs kill,eat farmer in Yavatmal

“The tigress was followed by her two cubs,aged about 18 months,and the three literally tore apart the farmer’s body and ate it,” sources added. “The head,legs and hands were severed from the body,” they said.

“The way this happened,it appears the tiger family was very hungry,which in turn could be because of scarce or no preybase in the area,” Central India director of Wildlife Protection Society of India Nitin Desai said.

Tipeshwar was in the news on November 15 when a tiger was found dead after being trapped in a snare near the sanctuary.

For many years,Tipeshwar was hardly known for any substantial tiger presence. But the two incidents that happened away from the sanctuary may be indicative of a twist in the story,sources further said.

All tiger attacks on humans in the past few years have been reported from the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve and its adjoining forest areas where over 75 people have died and many others have been injured in the past five years in tiger and leopard attacks.

The Tipeshwar incident has created panic in the area since no such incident has ever been reported from there before.

Leopard attacks man in Mumbai
Mumbai: A man was injured in a leopard attack in Aarey Colony on Monday evening. According to the Aarey Sub police,the incident occurred around 7 pm. The police said the man,whose name was not immediately known,was not seriously injured. ENS