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Source: The Hindu
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[Environment] pseudo-melanistic tigers, inbreeding, relocation
- Pseudo: false; melanistic: dark coloured. Their skin/pelt looks almost the inverse of a normal tiger. More black and less orange.
- Odisha → Similipal Tiger Reserve → 13/27 tigers are pseudo-melanistic.
- No other wild habitat in the world has pseudo-melanistic tigers.
- The Similipal tiger population is cut off from the other populations by a great distance and has been isolated for an extended period of time.
- Result? ‘inbreeding’ → gene defect/mutation → pseudo-melanistic skin/pelt.
- Solution? Odisha government sending away tiger from Simlipal to Maharashtra’s Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve.
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⚡️Why in the news: A tigress from the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, was sent 800 km away to the Similipal Tiger Reserve on Sunday (October 28, 2024) so as to diversify the genetic pool of the tiger population in Odisha. She is part of a plan by the Odisha government to tackle inbreeding in the tiger population that has resulted in increasing numbers of the once elusive black tigers or pseudo-melanistic tigers.

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