First tiger airlifted to Sariska
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28/06/2008
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Times Of India (New Delhi)
Fitted With GPS Collar As Safety Measure; Two More Big Cats To Be Flown In Sariska (Alwar): Sariska almost missed its date with history. Around 3 in the morning, it began to rain. By daybreak, it was bucketing down. You would have had to be a die-hard optimist to believe that a tiger would eventually be flown down during the day. But it happened. At 11.50, a chopper took off from Ranthambore national park, carrying a very large cage. Inside, lay tranquilized a 220 kg tiger, flying into history. The chopper landed at Sariska at 12.30. The sky was still a threatening grey, but it had stopped raining. Slowly, the crate was brought out, and put on a truck, that drove another 200 metres from the helipad to a 100 ft x 100 ft soft enclosure at Nayapani, the tiger's new home. The three-and-a-half-year-old male tiger has no name, but given the attention, he may soon get one. After all, this is the first time anywhere in the world that a tiger