Tiger: марта 2017

вторник, 14 марта 2017 г.

Bengal tiger vs Gaur (Kanha Tiger Reserve)

Tiger predatory behaviour,ecology and conservation.
John Seidensticker and Charles McDougal.1993.
"Karanth (1988) reported heavy prédation on solitary adult gaur in Nagarahole National Park in southern India."

Wild Cats of the World.
Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist.2002.
"The weights of gaur,banteng, and moose killed by tigers have rarely been recorded,although adults of these species typically weigh between 500 and 1000 kilograms,or about four to seven times the weight of the tiger. In Nagarahole National Park, the average weight of eighty-three tiger kills was 401 kilograms. This sample included several gaur weighing 1000 kg"

The Wild Cat Book.
Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist.2014.
"Tigers can single-handedly kill animals four or five times their own - a 500 pound male tiger can kill a 2000-pound bull gaur"

A View from Machan:How Science Can Save the Fragile Predator.
Ullas Karanth.2007.
"....tigers routinely kill adult gaur five times their own weight"

Mammals of South Asia.
A J T Johnsingh, Nima Manjrekar.2013.
"The biggest prey killed by tigers are adult bull gaur weighing over a tonne,five times their own size."

Wild Cats:Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan.
Kristian Nowell and Peter Jackson.1996.
"...U.Karanth (pers.comm.) states that in India's Nagarhole National Park,gaur are the main prey,including bulls weighting up to 1000 kg"

ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF THE BENGAL TIGER
IN THE SUNDARBANS MANGROVE FOREST OF BANGLADESH.
A dissertation submitted to the University of Cambridge in partial fulfilment of the conditions of application for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Mohammad Monirul Hasan Khan.2004.
"...Karanth and Sunquist (1992) state that in India’s Nagarhole NP, gaurs (Bos frontalis) are the main prey, including bulls weighing up to 1,000 kg."

Prey preferences of the tiger Panthera tigris.
Matt W Hayward, W Jedrzejewski, B Jedrzejewska.2012.
"They are capable of capturing and killed large prey,including adult male gaur Bos gaur"

Wild Cats of the World.
Luke Hunter.2015.
"They are capable of killing adult Gaur and Asiatic Water Buffalo exceeding 1000kg... "

http://www.fao.org/3/a-am998e.pdf
"During the post mortem examination of the carcass conducted at Dobanki Camp it was revealed (Anon, 2011a) that the carcass was of a female tiger approximately 5-6 years old. From the external appearance it was observed that the rigor mortis stage of the carcass was over so time of death was estimated to be 24-28 hours before post mortem, i.e., on the afternoon of 8 August 2011."
" In the Sundarbans, the top predators are the tiger on land and estuarine crocodile in water and both
are found throughout the entire Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR), but there are no previous records
of encounters between these species as prey or others."

http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/in-sunderbans-crocodile-devours-tiger/829699/
"I had earlier seen a tiger being attacked by a crocodile in 1999. But so far, this is the first incident of a tiger being killed by a crocodile"
Subrat Mukherjee, Field Director of Sunderbans Tiger Reserve
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8695915/Fifteen-foot-Bengali-crocodile-claims-king-of-jungle-title-from-tiger.html
"However, this is the first time we have heard of an attack by crocodiles on a tiger"
Bivash Pandav