An Indian desert cat has been noticed for the primary time in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR), a senior forest official claimed.
PTR’s discipline director Uttam Kumar Sharma stated on Saturday, “A tourist has shared photographs of Indian desert cats taken by him during a recent night safari in the Akola buffer zone of the reserve.”
As the title suggests, this cat is discovered within the desert and may survive with out water. The official stated that the toes of this species have hair-like cushions which assist in balancing the fluctuations within the temperature of the desert.
He stated that earlier the presence of this wild cat was not recorded within the PTR data. “The Indian Desert Cat was named in the old PTR documents, but the photographic presence of this species was not recorded earlier,” the official stated.
He stated that earlier the presence of a desert cat was recorded within the state’s Nauradehi sanctuary.
“We are looking for documents to find out where in Madhya Pradesh its presence was recorded earlier,” he stated.
The official additionally stated that the presence of the desert cat within the PTR is a sign that attributable to elevated safety in its forest areas, the variety of completely different wild animal species is rising within the reserve.
State authorities officers had earlier stated that in August this yr, a fishing cat, one of many endangered animals in India, was noticed within the PTR.
He stated that this species of cat, which principally eats fish as its meals, goes extinct. Captured on digital camera put in in Tiger Reserve
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
