India, Jan. 20 -- Three Royal Bengal tigers were found dead in Assam's Kaziranga Tiger Reserve between January 4 and January 18, officials said, and added preliminary findings pointed to infighting as the cause of the deaths. Officials said infighting is considered a natural cause of mortality in high-density tiger habitats such as Kaziranga.

On January 4, the carcass of a female tiger was recovered from the Paschim Bimoli area of the reserve's Western Range in Bagori. A committee constituted, as per the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), conducted the post-mortem examination, which suggested that the tiger died due to infighting.

Ten days later, a Royal Bengal tiger, estimated to be ...