Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

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Tiger kills leopard in fight over kill

May 24, 2023

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Nagpur: In a rare incident, a leopard is suspected to have been killed by a tiger in Bor Tiger Reserve (BTR), 65 km from here in Wardha district on Tuesday.

Bor range forest officer (RFO) Naresh Gawande said, “All body parts of the leopard were intact. Circumstantial evidence prima facie shows that the leopard must have been killed in a fight with a tiger over a sambar kill.

We found blood stains on the ground and stones at the spot where the leopard lay dead.”

During search near Bor dam backwaters, a partially consumed female sambar deer carcass was found 50 meters away from the spot where the leopard was found dead in compartment number 257. “We don’t know whether the deer was killed by the tiger or leopard. There were multiple pug marks of leopard and tiger at the spot," said Gawande. tnn

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Three Amur leopards killed by tigers

Leopards avoid areas inhabited by tigers. When tiger numbers increased during the 1960's and early 1970's, leopard tracks were less often encountered, and then disappeared entirely. In March 2001, a leopard was killed by a tiger in the Borisovkoe Hunting Lease, and Mr. V.N. Dyukov, an inspector with Inspection Tiger Unit, has twice found leopards killed by tigers:

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