Tiger Predation

[Spalea]

@Apex Titan 

Your last post #2721 of the Extinction thread/tiger is very interesting. But for some unknown reason I couldn't neither put a "like" under your post nor to answer to you. Thus I do it here.

As concerns the tiger's apex predator strain on the dholes, it's perhaps important to notice the small areas of the Indian natural parks: 300-500 km2 in average i.e. only two or three times the surface of the hunting domain of a male tiger. And as soon as the the dholes want to escape from the tiger's predation pressure by leaving the reserve for example, they end up into the human settlements of the most inhabited state of the world. It's a very precarious situation.!

You mention the lion's apex predator strain on the African wild dogs, the African natural parks are much bigger than in India, the biggest of all is the Selous reserve in Tanzania: 55.000 km2. Other smaller ones but more famous, the Kruger National park in South-Africa reaches 20.000 km2. the Tsavo NAtional Park in Kenya: 22.000 km2 and so on. Under these conditions I believe the African wild dog condition isn't as critical as the dhole's one. Even if we don't have to forget that the wild canids are very faithful to their territories. Reply