Walker II, the lone tiger at Gautala Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra, has been spotted on a camera trap, nearly two weeks after going off the radar, an official said on Wednesday.

According to news agency PTI, the big cat, which is around four years old, has stayed in the protected forest since March 2021, when he came in search of new territory. The tiger has marked its area between Kannad and Chalisgaon in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Jalgaon districts of Maharashtra, respectively, the official said.

Walker II was spotted on February 27 before it went "missing" for about two weeks, raising the speculation that it might have been killed by poachers, PTI reported.