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Kumar, N.S.; Bindra, P.S.
Camera traps reveal man-eater's history
2013 Oryx (47): 14-15
In August 2012 newspapers reported a tiger killing cattle in farmland and state forests outside the eastern boundary of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve in Karnataka. On 25 August the tiger attacked a woman who was grazing livestock in the vicinity, and partially consumed her. On 26 August Forest Department staff located the tiger, using domestic elephants, and tranquillized and captured it. Using an extensive photo-database of individual tigers camera-trapped in Karnataka over the past 2 decades, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)-India scientists identified the captured man-eater as tiger NHT-222.
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