A female tiger, 14, which had been ill for one and a half months, died on Wednesday morning at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Sreepur, Gazipur.
A General Diary (GD) has been made at Sreepur police station in this regard, said Imran Ahmed, project director of the park, in the afternoon.
Safari Park Officer-in-Charge Rafiqul Islam said that the pathology department of Bangladesh Agricultural University has collected and tested blood samples of the sick tiger. While under treatment, the tiger's health condition got critical and she later died.
Safari park wildlife inspector Anisur Rahman said that in 2013, some tigers were brought to the park from South Africa. Among them, a female tiger had been suffering from illness for a long time.
The tiger became seriously ill on February 6. She was being treated by expert doctors. For the next week, the tigress started eating small amounts of food, but stopped eating again on March 7. The tigress died on Wednesday morning after becoming physically weak, he added.
After the post-mortem examination of the body, samples of different parts have been collected and sent to several laboratories in the country. The tiger was buried inside the park.
He further said that the expert wildlife doctors examined the tiger was suffering from liver disease, goitre and trypanosomiasis. Currently, the safari park has a total of nine Bengal tigers including a rare white Bengal tiger. Among them, six were female and three males.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Sreepur police station Mohammad Moniruzzaman said that the park authorities made a general diary (GD) in the evening regarding the death of a tiger in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park.
