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Tiger Predation

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Jim Corbett's account of mating tiger pair killing elephant


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Tiger with croc kill


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(04-23-2014, 07:59 PM)'Apollo' Wrote: Tiger with croc kill

 

I think she is famous tigress Machali, Not a Tiger ??

 
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(04-23-2014, 09:41 PM)'sanjay' Wrote:
(04-23-2014, 07:59 PM)'Apollo' Wrote: Tiger with croc kill


 

I think she is famous tigress Machali, Not a Tiger ??

 

 



Yeah its Machli the famous tigress.
 
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Tiger/ress with a Sambar


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Huge Sambar killed by a tiger at Similipal

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Male Tiger with his partially devoured Sambar kill in Kanha Tiger Reserve

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The Sambar deer:
Despite some believes, the Sambar deer, specially the large males, are very dangerous animals, much more than the wildebeest.
 
Valmik Thapar in his book “Tiger: The secret life” (Yes, I bought this book too Rusa unicolor) are fascinating animals, powerful and impressive, they are the largest of the oriental deer, with some males reaching up to 160 cm to the shoulders and weight up to 320 kg, which is as large as some populations of red deer.
 
Here is an image with morphological data of this imposing animal:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/PmcAYTV.png" class="lozad max-img-size" alt="" title="">
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Source: David M. Leslie, Jr. Rusa unicolor (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) - Mammalian Species, 43(1):1-30. 2011.

This is the data of Chitwan, from animals captured by Dr Sunquist (1981):

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Interesting, no adult male weighed less than 227 kg! [img]images/smilies/exclamation.gif[/img]
 
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(04-24-2014, 03:24 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: The Sambar deer:
Despite some believes, the Sambar deer, specially the large males, are very dangerous animals, much more than the wildebeest.
 
Valmik Thapar in his book “Tiger: The secret life” (Yes, I bought this book too Rusa unicolor) are fascinating animals, powerful and impressive, they are the largest of the oriental deer, with some males reaching up to 160 cm to the shoulders and weight up to 320 kg, which is as large as some populations of red deer.
 
Here is an image with morphological data of this imposing animal:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/PmcAYTV.png" class="lozad max-img-size" alt="" title="">
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Source: David M. Leslie, Jr. Rusa unicolor (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) - Mammalian Species, 43(1):1-30. 2011.

This is the data of Chitwan, from animals captured by Dr Sunquist (1981):

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Interesting, no adult male weighed less than 227 kg! [img]images/smilies/exclamation.gif[/img]
 

 



Very good info.
TFS Guate
 
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Tiger cub feeding on Sambar calf at Bhandavgarh



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Yeda anna crack open a Pangolin


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Tigress kills a male Sambar in Tadoba


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Wow, that is a magnificent large sambar, as large as that photographed by Thapar in Ranthambore. Probably this male was of no less than 300 kg too, a great feat for this tigress, that doesn't look of more than 140 kg.
 
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(04-25-2014, 10:39 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: Wow, that is a magnificent large sambar, as large as that photographed by Thapar in Ranthambore. Probably this male was of no less than 300 kg too, a great feat for this tigress, that doesn't look of more than 140 kg.
 

 



Many people underestimate Sambars, they think its just a deer.
But male sambars are very formidable animals like wildbeest and zebras.
 
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No doubt Sambars are impressive, not only that they have impressive weaponry as well.


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(04-25-2014, 07:34 PM)'TheLioness' Wrote: No doubt Sambars are impressive, not only that they have impressive weaponry as well.


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Here is a bigger image of your pic


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MALE TIGER ON SAMBAR KILL


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