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Rare melanistic tiger found dead in Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve
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A rare melanistic tiger was found dead in Odisha’s Simlipal National Park (STR) in the Mayurbhanj district.
About Similipal Tiger Reserve
- Similipal Tiger Reserve is the only place in the world to house the rare black tigers.
- STR was declared one of the nine Tiger Reserves of India in 1973, it is the second-largest biosphere reserve in Asia and is listed under the UNESCO network of biosphere reserves.
- Tigers:
- The Similipal reserve had three adult melanistic tigers, according to the 2016 all-India tiger survey.
- Similipal tigers are part of a distinct lineage of central Indian tigers that occasionally includes melanistic tigers. These melanistic tigers have no other home in the world.
- Tigers are pseudo-melanistic because they have black and yellow stripes on their bodies.
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