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Tiger Tales from Ranthambore || The 'Missing' Sundari T-17

T-16, the tigress mother of Ranthambore , gave birth to three female cubs during the monsoon months of 2006. With time, these little tigresses earned the names T-17, T-18, and T-19, or Satara , Athara , and Unnis. Born to a celebrity mother, the three cubs were under pressure to perform right from their cubhoods. And in spite of constant paparazzi presence, very soon all of them started demonstrating the Dabang traits their mother was famous for. And one cub, T-17, was more adventurous than the other two. Brave and enterprising, this future queen of the jungle started exploring her own territory by the end of 2007, and was completely independent by the summer of 2008, while her sisters were still with their mother. But her curiosity and ambition wasn't satiated yet and she continued exploring and expanding her territory and slowly managed to force her own mother, T-16, out of her territory, after which T-16 retreated to the Lakkarda region. And somewhere down the line, Satara