Its a Jungle Out There - not a Zoo

US has 10000 pet tigers in their backyards. We also have few hidden in our Tiger Reserves which are duly fed in the name of conservation.

You feed in the name of emotional outpour to help them survive dark days of orphaned childhood - sickness - old age but you also expect them to survive the harsh wild out there with other tigers who are fighting out for territory and food. You expect them not to wander out in search of easy meal like cattle from villages in and around.

What do you want? A wild pet who will tune to your fancies of feeding him for a month and then when he looses his wild instinct to kill and gets comfy with the served meal you expect him to hunt or fight.

Laws of nature says Survival of the fittest! This helps in the circle of jungle life too - old/weak dies and their territories are occupied by strong fitter ones so that they can healthily breed and give way to good breed of tigers. Its not a number game out there - its a healthy emnironment and balanced population.

So what do we achieve by hand feeding wild animals? He looses his natural
wild instinct and goes round killing cattle's in villages and even
looses the power to battle it out in the wild - result untimely deaths on territorial fights!!And incase a tiger has to be treated for very long and fed - there is a way of doing that by putting him under controlled environment - then letting him loose in calculated steps where he can horn his natural skills all over again.

Donot feed a tiger/wild animal in its natural environment - we often see this on notice boards - do you wonder why?

There are few in RTR and Bandhavgarh who could have died long back making way for younger and healthier animals but no - humans had to intervene for their vested interest and keep them alive - result: more of young transcient tigers - more of bloody territorial fights - more of stray cases for easy meals.

One case in Bandhavgarh:

One adult tigress in BNP, she is Known as CHURBHERA TIGRESS(a.k.a- SIDHBABA FEMALE, LAXMI & LANGDI), she has been limping for quite a long, since 2 years or so, initially FD thought that it was some minor injury or sprain but latter when there were no signs of recovery they thought of tranquilizing her to have a look into her injuries, but it was not done because she was pregnant at that point of time, now she has 2 cubs, who are 1 year old. She is doing well to feed her cubs, she sometime makes successful kills, sometimes not, sometimes she lifts cattles also from nearby villages. FD is keeping a close eye on her, if she is not able to kill for 5-6 days, She is Baited by the FD, The only thing of concern is, her cubs are learning the art of killing, and they are only learning to kill the cattle. Very rarely she is able to make a kill in the wild.

One in RTR:

Macchli - 15+ no canines - kept alive since she is a star - she has her territory.
The other one is above - Samba.

Its not a zoo out there - its a jungle and we as well follow the rules of it or accept defeat in the hands of nature.