The faecal test of a tiger captured in a H D Kote village, on the fringes of Nagarohole Forest after it mauled a tribal woman to death more than a fortnight ago, has revealed that the big cat had not eaten the woman after killing her.
The tiger was captured a day after it killed the woman while she was grazing sheep. The authorities of Mysore Zoo where the tiger was shifted after capture, had sent its faeces samples to a Hyderabad-based laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species.
Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) chairman M Nanjundaswamy said that the woman might have died due to shock after she was attacked. On some missing parts of the woman’s body, he said that she might have been eaten by other wild animals. The tiger which is about 10 years old is recuperating from a leg fracture and is on antibiotics.
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