Seoni (Madhya Pradesh): The Pench National Park which has become top favourite tourism parks amongst the wildlife aficionados and nature photographers has one more thing to be proud of, a majestic Collarwali (T-15) Tigress born in the year 2005.
Due to the radio collar ID around the neck of the tigress, she is known as the collared tigress.‘Collarwali’ – the tigress lovingly called by visitors to Pench National Park owing to her radio collar – upheld a record of producing the highest number of cubs in Madhya Pradesh until now.
Tigress T-15 has become an admiration for wildlife enthusiasts. She was often spotted chasing weak animals for her favourite mealtime and went on to the eye candy of the Pench National Park.
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She gained immediate fame when she gave birth to a litter of five cubs in the year 2011. Since 2008, she had given birth to 22 cubs in six litters breaking the highest record of all tigresses in India.
As a matter of fact, it is Collarwali and her lineage of 26 tigers that has played the key role in the excellent sighting of tigers in Pench Tiger Reserve and the resultant growth in footfall.
The royal tigress has made Sita Ghaati area of the Pench National park, located close to the river, her home (territory).
The radio collar that lent her name had been fitted on her in 2009, when she was four, for monitoring her movement. Just four of the reserve’s 50 tigers and tigresses are radio-collared. The collar fitted on the Collarwali Baghin worked for about two years and fell off her neck in August 2016.
The tigress is seen walking in the Pench Tiger Reserve which was and in-camera by Wildlife photographer Imran. The glimpse of T-7 tigress which proves how camera friendly she is.
