After Capture, Tigress Zeenat Taken To Kolkata Zoo

Kolkata: Tigress Zeenat, which had strayed from Odisha's Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) to West Bengal and was finally captured in Bankura district, is now in good health and under the observation of veterinary doctors at Alipore Zoo hospital, an official said on Monday.

A senior forest official said that the three-year-old tigress - who could finally be captured after being sedated with tranquillisers in Bankura on Sunday afternoon - was brought to the Alipore Zoo Vet Hospital around midnight and her health checked after arrival.

She was again checked by three vets and zoo keepers on Monday morning and her condition was okay excepting the stress and trauma due to tranquillising and being on the run for 21 days since her escape from Similipal reserve forest in Odisha in the first week of December, he said.

"She will be under observation for some more days as she has been running away from one place to another in three states and has been chased. She did not have proper meal as the places where she roamed in the three weeks did not have enough prey base. Also, the forest department had to sedate her with tranquillizers as she could not be caught otherwise. So she needs time to recuperate," he said.