Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha is home to the world's only population of melanistic tigers, a rare genetic variant of the Royal Bengal Tiger. Melanistic tigers, with their distinct coat pattern ...

In melanistic cats, it is almost impossible to distinguish ... The deadly jaws of the jaguar are another adaptation to life ...

BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Forest department grapples with the poaching of the melanistic tiger, investigation has revealed the sub-adult big cat, skin of which was recovered from a fringe village ...

Jimny vehicles emit low noise, which helps track the cats in the wild, Nanda added. Besides melanistic tigers, the state has four melanistic leopards — three in central Odisha and one in the ...

As per the All Odisha Tiger Estimation (AOTE) 2023-24, released last year, the big cat count in Simipal stood at 27 which included 13 melanistic tigers. These rare big cats with distinctive dark ...

In a rare sight, a melanistic leopard was seen roaming around ... Before this, two such big cats were spotted in Odisha in two separate locations back in November 2023 during the tiger census ...