Guwahati, July 30 -- It's raining good news for Assam's famed Kaziranga national park.
A recent survey of the big cats in Assam's Kaziranga national park has recorded the presence of 148 tigers in the park, which is also the third highest density of tigers (18/100 sq km) in the world. The park officials gave the numbers on Tuesday while releasing a summary report titled 'Status of Tigers in the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve'.
The officials said that during a 103-day camera trapping survey, 13,157 trap nights yielded 4,011 tiger images in 242 locations. The right-flank stripe patterns were used to identify 148 adult tigers in Kaziranga's three divisions. The count of 148 includes 83 females, 55 males, and 10 with undetermined gender, they said....