Top Forest Official Shares Images Of ‘Black Tigers Of India’
Indian Forest Service official Parveen Kaswan recently shared stunning pictures of ‘the black tigers of India. According to Mr Kaswan, who regularly shares updates on Indian wildlife on social media, these black tigers of India are pseudo- melanistic tigers found in Simlipal. They have been called black tigers due to genetic mutation and these big cats are highly rare.
“Such beautiful creature,” Mr Kaswan wrote on X (formerly X).
According to Parveen Kaswan, the first confirmed record of the now famous pseudo-melanistic tigers of Similipal came in 1993.
He wrote on X that on 21st July 1993 Salku, a young boy of Podagad village shot down a “black” tigress with arrows in self-defense.
The black tigers of #India. Do you know there are pseudo- melanistic tigers found in Simlipal. They are such due to genetic mutation & highly rare. Such beautiful creature. pic.twitter.com/X1TEw8r1cD
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) December 22, 2023
The rare tigers were first officially discovered in Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha in 2007 and more were documented later.
“They are due to rare genetic mutation and found in small population,” he wrote.
