BARANG: After a month’s silence,
the rumour of tiger roaming around Nandankanan zoo area haunted the zoo employees
and forest officials again on Sunday. The rumour became strong when a visitor showed
the photograph of the wandering animal behind the tiger enclosure.
The visitors and the driver of
the Safari vehicle claimed that they saw the tiger when they were in the
vehicle. They immediately informed the zoo authorities about the incident who
asked the driver to bring the safari vehicle back. The visitors said the tiger
was wondering behind the tiger enclosure, but the zoo officials including
Nandankanan zoo deputy director Chittaranjan Mishra, Range officer and forester
could not find the tiger.
According to the deputy director,
they tried a lot to trace the tiger till Sunday evening. “We would try to find
out the whereabouts of the tiger on Monday,” he added.
A visitor from Kolkata, Laxmikant
Dixit, showed the photograph of the tiger which was not clear and confusing,
but that has fueled the previous rumour about the presence of a tiger in the
forest area.
Notably, the Forest Department on
January 27 had confirmed the movement of a tigress and its cub after tracing
pugmarks near Manei Sahi of Jhumuka area under Chandaka forest range in the
outskirts of the city. Before the department officials on December 28 last year
had confirmed that the tigress and its child were freely roaming around the
Chandaka-Dampada sanctuary.
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