The last rites of India’s Bengal tigress were arranged by the Forest Department of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
The female leopard, also known as ‘Collar Wali’, died on January 15. The Forest Department also shared photos of the female leopard’s last rites on Twitter, including district and forest officials.
The photos were also shared with great devotion by social media users, one user wrote that such scenes will not be seen anywhere except in India. While one user said that the female cheetah was the queen of Punch and said that you lived a long and wonderful life and because of you a whole forest was alive, and at the same time the user also wrote a poem.
RIP, Queen of Pench. You lived long and majestically. You ruled the food chain and because of you an entire forest was alive. #collarwali
‘Tiger Tiger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?’~ William Blake pic.twitter.com/K3gsF0eWef— Aditi Garg (@AditiGargIAS) January 16, 2022
Born in 2005, the cheetah is known for playing a key role in raising a family of leopards in Punch by giving birth to 29 offspring, which is also a world record, with 25 of these 29 offspring still alive.
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According to a press release from the Punjab Forest Department, the last rites of the tiger’s carcass were performed in accordance with National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) guidelines, and some of its organs have been sent to the laboratory for further research. By 2018, Madhya Pradesh was called the “Lion State” of the country with a population of 526 leopards.
