.susanorlean remembers the tiger Collarwali (2005-2022), whose life was characterized by unusualness.
Unlike most tiger mothers, Collarwali was, in fact, a tiger. Her life was characterized by unusualness. She was unusually large for a female . She was unusually friendly . Most notably, she was unusually fertile: she gave birth to twenty-nine cubs in her lifetime, which accounts for almost one per cent of all the tigers in India, according to 2018 estimates. She was also unusually well known.
Collarwali was formally known, less poetically, as T-15. Her father, T-1, known more familiarly as the Charger of Pench, or plain old Charger, was a large toothy male with a penchant for running full-speed at elephants. The family lived in a teak forest that is one of the few protected tiger habitats on earth. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature , wild tigers now occupy less than ten per cent of the area in which they used to range.
Badi Mata was an excellent mother, strict with lessons, but tolerant of goofy cub behavior, such as killing pangolins. As expected, the cubs left home when they were about two years old. T-15 set up shop not far from her mother. In 2008, she was the first tigress in Pench to be fitted with a radio collar, hence her nickname Collarwali, which means “collar-wearer” in Hindi.
That same year, Collarwali gave birth to her first litter, but she fumbled as a new mother and all her cubs died of pneumonia. In time, though, she developed serious motherhood skills, and her next litters flourished. In 2010, she gave birth to a mega-litter of five cubs. Tiger litters are usually three or four in size, and half of all cubs born die in the first year of their lives; to rear a whopping five cubs is world-class.
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