Overview
- Rajasthan forest officials confirmed a rare triple sighting of a tiger, a leopard and a cheetah in Zone 9 of Ranthambore near the Chakal river.
- The cheetah was identified as KP-2 from Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, a known wanderer tracked by officials.
- KP-2 entered fields on the reserve’s periphery near the Housing Board Colony and Jinapur after killing a goat, prompting an alert by local authorities.
- Ranthambore and Kuno teams have set up a joint camp led by DFO Manas Singh to track KP-2 around the clock, with tranquilisation and recovery under consideration.
- Experts call the overlap unusual because tigers dominate core habitat and push other big cats to avoid them, sharpening concerns for reintroduced cheetahs in tiger landscapes.