Male felidae gain weight and power when they become father ?

[sanjay]

Your point is valid, seigfried, And this is natural process.

In my first post, I gave example of JV's Sariska male tiger. Due to more bigger and aggressive male, Sariska (brother of Tiger corbett who attacked and almost killed JV) never able to claim his territory, According to JV, Sariska was dominated by his brother and sister. When he grew up he was chased and dominated by other males. Infact JV thought he could never make his territory and will able to mate.

But fortunately, Tiboo the white tigress choose him over 2 other resident big male 'Big Boy' and 'Sundaban' because one was vasectomised and other was Cryptorchidism (The testicles are inside the body of the male tiger, causing the temperature of the sperm to be too high and therefore not viable).

After having cubs from Tiboo, Sariska became aggressive and gain weight. He enlarged his territory and captured a part of 'Big Boy' territory.

So point is responsibility made tiger Sariska dominant, aggressive and increase weight .

This is just one example and it does not proves anything, may be it is exception or just a co-incidence, but if it happens in deep forest without human witnesses, than its really interesting behavior and should be analyze more Reply