behind the big cat's and bear's, who is the top predator?

[Dr Panthera]

(11-05-2015, 12:42 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(11-05-2015, 12:23 AM)Dr Panthera Wrote: No those were three radio collard wild males 110,150, 170 kg by J.D. Smith et al., definitely indochinese tigers reached over 200 kg when sambar,Eld deer, and large bovids were common, fifty years of war ravaged the region and it's wild life and despite the establishment of many protected areas , most are " Muntjac-only" scenario, leading to less and less tiger reproduction , the emergence of the more adaptable smaller tigers and either a Sundarban scenario or extinction which I fear will be the case unless we can quickly restock the forests of indochina

In fact, my friend, those four tigers (three males and one fmeale) are captive. Here is the paper:

http://www.claws.umn.edu/sites/claws.umn...format.pdf

The workshop was held at Khao Pratubchang Wildlife Breeding Center in Ratchaburi, Thailand. Three individuals were darted in small enclosures using compressed air drug delivery systems. A fourth tiger, in a large outdoor enclosure, was captured in a leg snare that was set up by participants.

The male of 200 kg and the female of 120 kg were in fact wild ones, but like I told you, I lost the data and I don't know how to communicate with any of the people that worked in that project.

I see, these were in fact captive animals, thank you for the clarification, the main issue remains that they are smaller than their Bengal cousins and still are capable hunters of adult bovids .
Rabinowitz states that he believes a good size male from Thailand would be in the range of 180Kg, but all we have are estimates or in this case captive animals.
Thai biologists have a good amount of research on his ecotype of tigers but we have limited access to their work.
The grim fact remains that we thought that P.t.corbetti numbered 4000 a decade ago, now we know it is probably less than 400 Reply