Pradeep and Kanan, a love story

Once upon a time in 1967, a tiger named Pradeep was chilling out in the Orissa zoo. The zoo had been built recently and Pradeep had his own open enclosure. Pradeep is dead now but its safe to assume he was very happy in his modern,  bachelor pad.

One day a wild tigress emerged out of the surrounding forest and jumped into Pradeep's enclosure. Zoo administrators were astonished to find two tigers in the enclosure. As a tribute to the spirit of the wilderness, they decided to honour the bond between the two great cats by never releasing the tigress and naming her Kanan.

You would say that Kanan got a raw deal, one day she was running wild and free, the next she was in a zoo. That's her problem. The real victim here is Pradeep. Pradeep had no say in the matter. The stupid she tiger comes into his home uninvited and ruined his pimpin' single lifestyle.

Below is an extract from some website:

    On the 5th January, 1967 at  night  she
    jumped  over the fencing and fell into a ditch full of  water
    inside  the tiger enclosure.  The tiger inside that open-door
    cage  rushed  out and attacked Kanan.  They  fought  bitterly
    until  both  lay exhausted.  The keepers of the  zoo  finding
    them  with many bleeding wounds sprayed them with dettol, but
    they  ran away from the spray in different directions.   Next
    day  both of them came back to be sprayed again.  A few  days
    of  this  treatment cured their wound.  But they  never  made
    friends.   The  tiger  continued to sleep in his  cage  while
    Kanan  roamed about in the bushes inside the enclosure.  Even
    after  nine  years  they could not be friends.   While  other
    animals  can be tamed enough to  respond to their names  being
    called  and  come  near either to be patted or  fed,  Kanan's
    response is merely a growl.

Somehow, the bit about them coming back to get sprayed with dettol doesn't seem like normal animal behaviour. Also, the zoo's vets needed some training if their idea of healing animals is spraying them with dettol.