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The Metro report on October 10 on the tiger’s plight
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The Alipore zoo has finally got the consent to tranquillise a Royal Bengal Tiger, brought from the Sunderbans for treatment, for an X-ray of a festering wound on its hind leg.
“The X-ray will be conducted this week to find out why the wound is not healing and why the tiger’s posterior is so weak,” said K.L. Ghosh, the Alipore zoo director.
The go-ahead for sedating the animal, brought to the zoo on July 26 after it was found unable to move for over 24 hours inside the mangroves, came days after Metro reported on how a squabble between two sets of officials was holding up the consent without which treatment could not start.
The zoo authorities had written to the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve seeking consent to tranquillise the animal. Subrat Mukherji, the field director of the reserve, had told Metro that the consent should come from the chief wildlife warden.
Mukherji’s department, however, did not allegedly convey this to the zoo authorities.
After the report was published on October 10, the zoo director got in touch with the chief wildlife warden and the consent came within two days.
The zoo director has also formed a three-member team comprising doctors from the state’s animal resource development department to treat the tiger, which has been languishing in the cramped enclosure of the zoo hospital.
The team, to be helped by zoo doctors, will go through the tiger’s medical history before deciding on the line of treatment. “The doctors in animal resource development department are best suited to advice on the tiger’s treatment,” said Ghosh.
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