Kanan was a wild tigress who jumped into a zoo enclosure in 1967, lured by a male tiger.
Kanan sacrificed her freedom for captive tiger Pradeep and entered his open-air enclosure at the Nandankanan Zoo in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, Eastern India.
Unfortunately, Pradeep would not accept Kanan as he already had a companion named Sikha.
Kanan was celibate until her death on 21 July 1978 without accepting any other mate.
at Nandankanan Zoo "immortalizes this iconic appreciate tale".