Lakhimpur Kheri, May 2 -- Eight days after tranquilising a tigress and capturing her female cub, the south Kheri division forest officials on Thursday successfully rescued her male cub too from a field near Baibaha Jamhaura village, under the Maigalganj forest range.The tigress with its female cub had been captured on April 23 from near Muda Javahar village. However, her male cub had evaded capture and disappeared into the dense fields.Divisional forest officer (DFO), south Kheri, Sanjay Biswal, said, "On Thursday, the patrolling teams headed by Dr Daya Shankar from Dudhwa National Park located the cub, sheltering in an agricultural field along the Sarayan river, near the Baibaha Jamhaura village in Mitauli tehsil under the Maigalganj forest range. "The teams successfully rescued the cub and brought it to the range headquarters for physical examination, during which the cub was found to be a male of six to seven-months-old."He said "the cub had been kept in a cage and proper guidance regarding its release had been sought from the PCCF." Releasing the cub into the forests was a challenge for the forest authorities.A six to seven-month-old cub cannot hunt prey on its own, and if it was released into the forests, there was real danger of other carnivores attacking it.Also, releasing it into the Suhagibarwa forests, in the hope of reuniting it with its mother, was a gamble as eight days had elapsed and there was no knowing where the tigress was....