Maximum size of prey that a single male lion or tiger can kill

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(04-25-2020, 11:33 AM)parvez Wrote: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/o...536997.ece

@tigerluver provided this document about the body weight of the Indian elephant, in post 152: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-elephants?page=11

In that document it says that the age of the elephants weighed and measured was between 15 to 50 years old. The smallest female weighed 1780 kg. So, assuming that the weight is related with the age, and that the smallest female was also the youngest, we can speculate that the female elephant of about 20 years old that the tiger killed in Corbet NP in 2011 probably weighed a little more, maybe about 2,000 kg. If this is the case, it seems that adolecent elephants are the biggest prey that a tiger can kill alone, but certainly only under very rare circunstances.

Thank you for telling me about this information @parvez. Reply