Tiger Sugreev after prolonged illness on Friday died at Birsa Munda Zoological Park. The zoo authority claimed that Tiger Sugreev was undergoing treatment since last two months under Doctor Ajay Kumar. However, the tiger has completed its life cycle of 15 years.
As per the postmortem report, the tiger was infected with kidney disease and arthritis. “We have tried all measures to save the tiger but he was not responding to the treatment, we have also noticed few changes in him like he was not able to walk properly and in the postmortem report it was clearly mentioned that due to cardio respiratory failure due to pylonephritis in association with secondary infection in different organ leading to multi organ failure and reactive arthritis, he died,” said Chief Conservator of Forest and Director of Birsa Munda Zoological Park, A K Patra.
Moreover, the tiger had also undergone treatment under the expert Dr. M Palit of Tata Zoo. The postmortem was done by Dr. K K Singh of Veterinary Pathology department. Tiger was brought from Shimoga, Karnataka to Ranchi in 2009.