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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”
简单翻译一下：
8月18日，印度Wayanad：在这次事件中，一只10岁的雌虎尸体被发现在Wayanad的一条大象走廊上。 现场有专家委员会的官员为雌虎验尸，并揭示了雌虎与一群象群打斗的证据。
众所周知，老虎会捕食大象的幼崽但老虎表面上疑似是是被象杀死属实罕见。 老虎没有皮肉外伤，推断的死亡原因是“头部旋转异常，寰枕关节脱位，脊髓断裂”。 （个人感觉极有可能是象群干的，骨头断裂但没皮外伤，说明没挨过类似雄象门齿那种利器的会心一击，更像是是被诸如象鼻象足之类的钝物打击的结果，而且象群嘛，一般都是不长象牙的母象居多；同时断裂比较粗糙，而且还没有人来收尸，不像是人为的）
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.
巡逻人员于 2021 年7月26日发现了这具尸体；这只雌虎被标记为“Wayanad Wildlife 10”，它对这片森林并不陌生，过去经常被被相机陷阱捕捉到。但是它在它的“家乡”死去是令人惊讶的。
虎通常会避免与象群发生争执，但这里情况并非如此。印度30,000头象、3000只虎与其13亿人口在迅速破碎的栖息地共存，导致了冲突局势。尽管这两种动物是该国野生动物保护的旗舰物种并共享同一个空间，但被努力保护的走廊上几乎没有剩余空间。
这只虎在Muthanga Range 的 IB公路附近被杀，离该地点不远的是 Wayanad附近一条的国道。正如官员（这名官员正是前文提到的Shajan）回忆的那样：“在我参观了 Muddhahalli走廊之后，25日晚上回到了Wayanad，那时我看到了一支带着两头小象的象群穿过国道”。第二天，他接到了Wayanad野生动物管理员关于雌虎死亡消息的电话。 “这或许就是同一批动物”，他这样说。
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.
这也表明印度的保护区和野生动物走廊已经变得多么脆弱。官员（还是那位）补充说，“离事发地点不远的是村庄。 此外，随着旅游业的开放和野生动物吉普车的回归，野生动物在经历了相当大的差距后再次陷入困境。” 虽然这可能不是死亡的明确原因，但这些肯定是破坏这里生态系统微妙平衡的因素。
作为首个此类举措，WTI （后面我会提到）绘制了全印度101条大象走廊并确保了6条走廊的安全。 然而，确定这些重要的野生动物通道只是保护它们的第一步。 事实上，大多数大象保护区和走廊都非常靠近人类居住和使用。 除非这种情况得到缓解，否则“大挤压”会变得更紧并甚至最终窒息我们的荒野。
我找到的这篇文章地址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网址https://www.wti.org.in/ 应该是一个保护动物的组织。
