Published 15:15 IST, July 29th 2020

World Tiger Day: Story of tigress Kanan who 'jumped from freedom to captivity' for love

On the occasion of International Tiger Day 2020, IFS official took to twitter and shared the story of tigress Kanan which left his followers completely amazed.

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July 29 is considered an important day in history as it is marked as Global Tiger Day. history of this day dates back to year 2010 when it was created at St. Petersburg Tiger Summit. At beginning of 20th century, number of tigers dropped exponentially across globe. However, for first time in world history, ir numbers are on a rise w.

'iconic love story'

On occasion of International Tiger Day 2020, IFS official Sandeep Tripathi took to twitter and shared story of tigress Kanan which left his followers amazed. In year 1967, Kanan, lured by a male tiger, jumped into a zoo enclosure. tigress sacrificed her freedom for male tiger and joined him in his open-air enclosure at Nandankanan Zoo in Bhubaneswar.

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Sandeep Tripathi put up a picture which was captioned as, “On this day would recapitulate unique love of wild tigress “Kanan” jumping from freedom to captivity of open-air enclosure of Zoo tiger “Preep” in night of 4th January 1967 lured by love. Unique take in Zoos of world”. Official Sandeep Tripathi, also shared an im of Kanan Square. With this im, he continued story of tigress Kanan.

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He said that tiger Preep would t accept tigress as he h his own companion and Kanan being loyal to Preep, did t mate with any or tiger. He captioned im as, "However, Preep would t accept her, as he has his own female companion “Sikha”. “Kanan” would celibate till her death on 21st July, 1978 without accepting any or mate. “Kanan square” in Nandankanan immortalizes this iconic love story". He termed this story as 'iconic love story' of tigers. This im gared 32 likes and 6 Retweets and comments.

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People took over to comment section to express ir views on iconic love story of tigress Kanan. People commeted about how y take pride in existence of tigers. re ere people who also criticised how animals should t be kept captive and blamed politicians for this.