Does Wildlife Survive Better in Captivity or in the Open Jungle ?

Now this is a question to debate upon. I’m sure most would say that wildlife survives much better in the jungles and wildlife sanctuaries that have been earmarked for preserving them in their natural habitats.

While some few would suggest that the species which are endangered due to human greed and ignorance would be much better in captivity.

Some efforts which were made to accommodate and breed a tiger couple in the Indore Zoo saw the birth of 4 cubs to the mother tigress. The zoo officials were very much elated at the news. But perhaps the required environment was not properly created for the mother and cubs, sad to note, 3 of the cubs died while the mother tried to shift them to another place in her enclosure. The fourth was also reported to be in a critical state and had been shifted to hospital for treatment.

Perhaps this might have not been the case if the cubs were born in their natural environment in the jungle. But then again there are other factors present there to endanger the little cubs lives such as other wild predators like hyenas, panthers and leopards who might see the little cubs as easy prey for them while the mother tigress may have gone for hunting of food for them.

So perhaps it was destiny that the cubs didn’t live on. But nevertheless efforts are underway to see that the tiger lives on whether in the wild or in captivity and our children of the future do not have to just see mere pictures of the beautiful Royal Bengal  Tiger like we see of the Dinosaurs of pre-historic eras.

There is also a vast difference in seeing a tiger in a barred enclosure to that of seeing it in the Indian Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks. Some of the most famous ones are the Jim Corbett National Park, Ranthambore National Park, Pench National Park, Kaziranga Tiger Reserve where you can also see the magnificent one-horned rhinoceros.