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18 August, Wayanad: In an incident that has left many flummoxed, a carcass of a young 10-year-old tigress was found in an elephant corridor in Wayanad. WTI’s Field Officer Shajan M A was part of the expert committee formed for the post-mortem of the tigress that revealed evidence of a fight with a herd of elephants.

Tigers are known to prey on elephant calves but this was a rare instance when a tiger was ostensibly killed by elephants. There were no external injuries and the reason of the death was due to “abnormal rotation of the head, dislocation of the atlanto-occipetal joint and rupture of the spinal cord”

簡單翻譯一下：

8月18日，印度Wayanad：在這次事件中，一只10歲的雌虎尸體被發(fā)現(xiàn)在Wayanad的一條大象走廊上。 現(xiàn)場有專家委員會的官員為雌虎驗尸，并揭示了雌虎與一群象群打斗的證據(jù)。

眾所周知，老虎會捕食大象的幼崽但老虎表面上疑似是是被象殺死屬實罕見。 老虎沒有皮肉外傷，推斷的死亡原因是“頭部旋轉(zhuǎn)異常，寰枕關(guān)節(jié)脫位，脊髓斷裂”。 （個人感覺極有可能是象群干的，骨頭斷裂但沒皮外傷，說明沒挨過類似雄象門齒那種利器的會心一擊，更像是是被諸如象鼻象足之類的鈍物打擊的結(jié)果，而且象群嘛，一般都是不長象牙的母象居多；同時斷裂比較粗糙，而且還沒有人來收尸，不像是人為的）

Patrolling staff of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary found the carcass on the 26th of July, 2021. The tigress, tagged as ‘Wayanad Wildlife 10’, was not new to these forests and had been regularly captured in camera traps in the past. Her untimely death in her home range was most surprising.

A tiger will generally avoid an altercation with an elephant herd but this wasn’t the case here. India’s 30,000 elephants and 3000 tigers co-exist with its 1.3 billion people in rapidly fragmenting habitat that brings in conflict situations. Despite these two animals being flagships of wildlife conservation in the country and sharing the same space, there is little room left in the corridors that we are fighting to protect.

The tiger was killed near an IB road of the Muthanga Range but not too far from the location is the national highway near Wayanad. As Shajan recalls, “After my Muddhahalli corridor visit, I was back in Wayanad on the evening of the 25th, when I sighted an elephant herd with two calves crossing the national highway”. The very next day, he gets a call from the wildlife warden of Wayanad on the tiger death. “It could have been the same herd”, he observed.

巡邏人員于 2021 年7月26日發(fā)現(xiàn)了這具尸體；這只雌虎被標記為“Wayanad Wildlife 10”，它對這片森林并不陌生，過去經(jīng)常被被相機陷阱捕捉到。但是它在它的“家鄉(xiāng)”死去是令人驚訝的。

虎通常會避免與象群發(fā)生爭執(zhí)，但這里情況并非如此。印度30,000頭象、3000只虎與其13億人口在迅速破碎的棲息地共存，導致了沖突局勢。盡管這兩種動物是該國野生動物保護的旗艦物種并共享同一個空間，但被努力保護的走廊上幾乎沒有剩余空間。

這只虎在Muthanga Range 的 IB公路附近被殺，離該地點不遠的是 Wayanad附近一條的國道。正如官員（這名官員正是前文提到的Shajan）回憶的那樣：“在我參觀了 Muddhahalli走廊之后，25日晚上回到了Wayanad，那時我看到了一支帶著兩頭小象的象群穿過國道”。第二天，他接到了Wayanad野生動物管理員關(guān)于雌虎死亡消息的電話。 “這或許就是同一批動物”，他這樣說。

The state of wildlife corridors in our country

This also points out to how fragile our protected areas and wildlife corridors have become. Shajan added, “not too far away from the location of the incident are villages. Also, with the tourism opening up and safari jeeps back on the tracks, wildlife is getting cornered again after a considerable gap.” While this might not have been the explicit reason for the death, these certainly are factors that are breaking the delicate balance of the ecosystem here.

In a first of its kind of initiative, WTI has mapped 101 elephant corridors across the country and secured six corridors. However, identifying these crucial wildlife passages is just the first step towards their protection. Most elephant reserves and corridors are in fact very close to human habitation and use. Unless, this is mitigated, the “big squeeze” will even get tighter and eventually choke our wilderness.

這也表明印度的保護區(qū)和野生動物走廊已經(jīng)變得多么脆弱。官員（還是那位）補充說，“離事發(fā)地點不遠的是村莊。 此外，隨著旅游業(yè)的開放和野生動物吉普車的回歸，野生動物在經(jīng)歷了相當大的差距后再次陷入困境?！?雖然這可能不是死亡的明確原因，但這些肯定是破壞這里生態(tài)系統(tǒng)微妙平衡的因素。

作為首個此類舉措，WTI （后面我會提到）繪制了全印度101條大象走廊并確保了6條走廊的安全。 然而，確定這些重要的野生動物通道只是保護它們的第一步。 事實上，大多數(shù)大象保護區(qū)和走廊都非常靠近人類居住和使用。 除非這種情況得到緩解，否則“大擠壓”會變得更緊并甚至最終窒息我們的荒野。

我找到的這篇文章地址https://www.wti.org.in/news/trampled-tiger-death-in-an-elephant-corridor/ 正是WTI旗下的一篇文章，WTI，Wildlife Trust of India網(wǎng)址https://www.wti.org.in/ 應該是一個保護動物的組織。