Days after T1 was shot dead on November 2, her cubs were sighted after a gap of 14 days by monitoring teams in the wee hours of Thursday at Vihirgaon. They were later spotted near the Anji dam.
Like T1 was lured by tigress’ urine and Calvin Klein perfume in Borati for capture, the two elusive cubs were lured by playing a voice recorder of a tigress calling her cubs. These calls were originally recorded a year back from a forest area open for tourism. The technique worked wonders.
Sources said the voice recorder with portable speaker was activated at every two kilometre near the Vihirgaon dam by a team-led by monitoring team from Nagpur.