How come there are no recent Tiger Predation on adult rhino accounts recently?

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(05-16-2015, 08:53 AM)'faess' Wrote: After that incident in 2010-2011 event of a Tiger killing an adult female rhino, there has been no other recent account of a Tiger killing an adult rhino. And so concludes this question, How can a Tiger kill a female rhino? Every tiger killing adult rhino  incident never involves a description on how A tiger predates on a big rhino

 

What is the point of this?
To try and discredit the tiger?
You have already seen predation accounts on full grown rhino, period.
Its already extremely rare, so the fact that there hasn't been a new one to your knowledge means what exactly?
None of us live in Kaziranga, the only place that even has Rhino any more and we have no idea what predation occurs there. Its extremely harsh terrain and hardly viewable, in fact there is probably 2 actual instances of predation even occuring there.

LUCKNOW: Have Dudhwa tigers shunned their preferred prey - the cheetals and sambhars - to hunt the mighty rhinos? The killing of a 35-year-old female rhino by a tiger in Dudhwa national park and the subsequent eating of the carcass has raised a doubt if the behaviour of Dudhwa tigers is changing. The experts are not ready to buy the argument that the declining prey base is the reason why tigers are hunting and eating rhinos.

"If tiger population in the park is increasing, prey base can not decline," said Tito Joseph from the wildlife protection society of India ( WPSI). The tiger sneaked into the rhino rehabilitation area to kill the 35-year-old female rhino Pavitri, brought to Dudhwa in 1984 under the rhino rehabilitation programme. This was the fifth attack since November last year on rhinos by tigers in Dudhwa. In the past one year, two rhinos have been killed by tigers and one has rescued by the park administration in Dudhwa. The feline attacks on rhinos aren't rare. But, in most of the incidents, it's the cubs which are killed.

Contrary to this, it was an adult female rhino killed this time. Is it the same tiger which is killing rhinos? Is the attacking feline old? Bibhav Taluqdar, who chairs International Union for Conservation of Nature Asian rhino specialist group, said Dudhwa authorities should try to find answers to such questions in case the attacks are rampant. "It's not rare that tigers kill and eat rhino. Rhino comes as an easy hunt for a tiger who can not chase a deer," he said
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/...282354.cms

From 2013...

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These occurrred after 2011 and my point is this....
It's unbelievably hard to even capture a kill of a tiger, period. Factor in the rarest of kills to a place that is extremely hard to view and its probably 1 in 1000s of odds to capture. So instead of trying to discredit actual events and capabilities of Tigers why don't you just enjoy the photos that are present and the new ones to come.
Like the people who tried to say Tigers couldn't prey on Gaur and refused it until the Raja video surfaced, it will only get you in trouble.

I did the same thing with Lone Lion predation on Bull buffalo which still hasn't been proven but I certainly don't doubt that a lone lion could do it, I know what they are capable of.


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