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03-16-2020, 11:39 PM( This post was last modified: 03-16-2020, 11:49 PM by GuateGojira )
(03-16-2020, 11:33 PM)Pckts Wrote: The weights claimed are estimates and Gaur predation wasn't witnessed, only scat and carcasses observed.
I'm well aware that Tigers hunt Gaur, they do so often but a Big Bull Gaur is in a different league than just a standard Bull Gaur.
And a 1000kg Bull would be a totally different monster IMO.
They said that they actually weighed the animals, remember that I asked to Dr Sunquist about that some years ago, and althought the predation was not witnessed in all the cases, you can see in the pictures that they checked the specimens, checking the form that tiger used to kill the specimens. Details of this you can see it in other publications of Dr Karanth.
By the way, here is an image showing that they actually weighed the kills in Nagarahole:
*This image is copyright of its original author
There is some degree of estimation as the tiger/leopard/dhole ate something of the kill, but that is just minimum.
What is the difference of "big adult gaur" and "standard bull gaur"? That is just your personal assumption, not a real concept used by scientists and also by tigers themselves.
We have records of tigers attacking huge bulls in old litterature too and if a tiger can kill a rhino, there is no reason why they can't hunt a bull gaur that weigh less.
Maximum size of prey that a single male lion or tiger can kill
