Sita

Sita is one of the most famous tigress in the world. She was born in 1981. She was photographed by tourists from all over the world. She made her marks on national geographic magazine front cover also. she was the only tigress to produce most documented litters.

She had six litters in her lifetime. Her very first litter was with then dominant male tiger BANKA. Banka was known for his handsome looks. Later they had another litter too.

After Banka it was CHARGER with whom she spent rest of her life. Sita and Charger as a couple were famous all over the world. Sita had her third litter with Charger, they had two male cubs. The first one was slightly bigger in size and was called Bara Bachha which means in hindi bigger cub. The second cub had a slight limp in his hind leg, and was known as Langru, this name was given to him a as he couldn’t walk properly. Because of his disability he was not aggressive or into hunting and chose to stay with his parents. But Bara Bachha eventually marked his own territory at Ghora Demon

Later in 1994 Sita had fourth litter with Charger. She had two cubs, one male and other female. To her ill the male cub was blind and couldn’t survive for long. This was a terrible loss for Sita. Many days she wandered in wild searching and calling for the cub. As if everyone shared the loss there was a very different type of inarticulateness in the jungle for few days to come.

But Sita had support of her daughter Mohini. They say she was as beautiful as her mother. Mohini was known for her beauty. In recent years she mate with Mahamn tiger and delivered three male cubs, which were called by the locals B1,B2,B3. Among them B2 became the dominant male. Other two cubs were shy . B1 liked to be fed under his parents and B3 was a romantic guy, he took pleasure with females.

Sita now was blessed with fifth litter and this time it was one male and two females. Because of the growing population of tigers in bandhavgarh it was very difficult to feed them. In spite of that she managed to hunt in others’ territory and use to drag food into her. This was the year 1996.

Technically Sita had become old in 1996, she turned 15, but it was not portrayed in her spirits. It was month of July closing time of park. After three months when tiger tracking was resumed there was no sign of Sita, ‘she disappeared’. As she was adored female of bandhavgarh, so her search was conducted right way. But no one knows exact story. Locals said that she was shot thrice and was found dead near Brua Nala. Guides say that she was poached. But truth is still bedim.