Latest estimates show that there are 104 tigers in the Kaziranga National Park and Burachapori, about 250 km from here. In 2014, there were 83 tigers in Kaziranga.
Both the parks are located within the sprawling Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, spread over an area of 860sq km.The Kaziranga Park is 430 sq km.While 95 adult tigers were found in Kaziranga, two adult big cats were found in Burchapori along with cubs.
With 104 tigers, the big cat density in Kaziranga has been found to be 21 tigers per 100 sq km.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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