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In HKK reserve in Thailand ( Huai Kha Khaeng ) Smicharoen ( I hope I did not murder his name) reported tiger predation on adult gaur,water buffalo, and banteng in the park. The only place where all exist...and this is not the massive Bengal tiger this is your 110-170 kg indochinese tiger ( granted bovids there are smaller there than in India but still remarkable), still,in the same study sambar are strongly selected and muntjac despite it being avoided was taken frequently.
Tigers will obviously target calves and subadults and will kill them more than their percentage of gaur population, and will obviously kill more of the solitary old bulls than the females who live in the breeding herds despite their smaller size, this pattern is similar to lion predation on Cape buffalo.