Ranthambore tigress Siddhi seen with a new cub, her second litter

Siddhi, an eight-year-old tigress in Rajasthan’s Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, has given birth for the second time, forest officials said on 9 November. A forest department camera trap photographed her with one cub.

Manas Singh, the Divisional Forest Officer of Ranthambore’s first division, said this was the second litter for the tigress, known officially as T-125. Only one cub has been seen so far, but there may be more, he said. Staff are watching the camera traps closely and will know the number in the coming days.

A field team is guarding the area and tracking the tigress and her young, the officer said. With this cub, the reserve now has 64 cubs, Dainik Bhaskar reported.

A famous family

Siddhi belongs to one of Ranthambore’s best-known tiger families. Her mother is Arrowhead (T-84) and her father is T-86. Arrowhead is the daughter of the tigress Krishna (T-19) and a granddaughter of Machli (T-16), perhaps the most photographed tigress in the world. Siddhi’s sister is the tigress Riddhi.

Siddhi first had cubs in 2024, when she was seen with three of them in the Antpura forest area of the reserve’s Zone 5.