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Article History

Received: 14 August 2023

Accepted: 6 August 2024

First Online: 2 September 2024

Declarations

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: Samples from the post mortem examination of tiger cub under reference No. 21 of Table 2 has been collected as per the request letter no Desk-3/ Vigilance/DD/ PTR/390/ 22–23, Nagpur dated 06/05/2022. As per the existing Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 permission from Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife), Maharashtra State was sought to vide No. Desk-22(8)/Res/CR-59(19–20)/3838/19–20, Nagpur, date 15 January 2020; vide No. Desk-22(8)/Res/CR-59(19–20)/2370/20–21, Nagpur, date 07 January 2021 and vide No. Desk-22(8)/Res/CR-59(19–20)/2565/2021-22, Nagpur, date 18 January 2022 for the study and publication of scientific findings. All the sample collection during the study has been executed as per ARRIVE guidelines.

: Not applicable.

: No experiments have been carried out on animals and the samples were collected for the clinical management of wild animals wherein required permissions as per the provisions of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 have been obtained from the PCCF (Wildlife) of Maharashtra State (India). However, sample collection has been undertaken as per the ARRIVE guidelines.

: The authors declare no competing interests.