The Forest Department staff heaved a sigh of relief after seeing two orphaned tiger cubs safe in Ratapani Sanctuary. Both the cubs ate goat meat on Tuesday night. Both the cubs have been captured in the trap camera roaming together. The female leopard is roaming nearby but is not attacking because both the cubs are together. Recently the female leopard had hunted a goat whose meat the cubs had eaten.
Ratapani Sanctuary Superintendent Sunil Bhardwaj said that if it had been a male leopard, both the tigers would have attacked the cubs. The female leopard not only shared her prey with the tiger cubs but also did not even once try to cause any harm to either of them. Rather, she had moved away from there after seeing the tiger cubs. The incident has been captured on camera.
The female leopard had hunted the goat. Bhardwaj told that the meat that both the tiger cubs ate for the first time after being orphaned was hunted by the female leopard. The leopard had hunted three goats. After this the goat meat was given to the tiger cubs after which they ate it with relish.
