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ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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( This post was last modified: 01-08-2018, 02:34 PM by Greatearth )

Rishi

I think you know a lof of the Bengal tiger in Orissa and Sundarbans.
A tiger in these area has one of the most dangerous competitor just as the brown bear, the saltwater crocodile. Is there any reliable interactions between these croc and tiger? All I know is one female tiger was killed by saltwater crocodile after 4 hours battle or something.

100 years ago, the Bengal tiger in coastal areas of Tamilnadu, Andhrapradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Bangladesh and western Burma definitely faced with these animal since saltie habitat was also very wide spread (saltwater crocodile was once ranged Seychelles islands of Africa to western Oceania).
Someone in wildfact wrote interaction result between these two apex predators were the tigers usually dominated the saltwater crocodiles in past. I don't know this is really true and I am curious where did this person got this information. I know tiger preying on mugger crocodile in Ranthambore and other parts of India. Female tiger Machilli killed numerous 4.2~4.5 m long crocodiles by herself. However, the saltwater crocodile is no joke compared to smaller mugger crocodile. In fact, there is some belief of the biggest saltwater crocodile may living in Orissa state right now. One thing is that many media describes the saltwater crocodile as 7 to 10 meters, but this is one big wrong information. 6 meters long saltwater crocodile is the same as 220 cm tall human. This is the only species of crocodile frequently grows 5.2 meters long (male), but saltwater crocodile average length is still around 4.2~4.5 meters for both adult male (4.3~4.9 m) and female (while the maximum length of the mugger crocodile is around 4.8 m). I guess tiger could take down saltwater crocodile, but Sundarbans tiger is smaller than tigers from other parts of India and Nepal.

The Sumatran tiger, Malayan tiger, and Indochinese tiger also interacted with salties in last century before human destroyed many of wildlife. But these tigers are smaller than the Bengal tiger while it may have been depend by regions (I read that tiger in Annam and Laos was just a little bit smaller than the Bengal tiger, but tiger in Cochinchina and Mekong delta was the same size as the Sundarbens tiger from previous post). I don't know many information of the Malayan tiger, Indochinese tiger, and Sumatran tiger (their size, morphology and appearance by different locations). If anyone knows more information of these tiger subspecies from different locations. Please write more of these tiger subspecies since they are also very interesting tiger subspecies just like the Bengal tiger in Himalaya and Sunderbans.

I deleted one of my post, but critically endangered Siamese crocodile and Chinese alligator are a small Crocodilians. The Siamese crocodile was once widespread in entire Indochina besides Malayan peninsula and the Chinese alligators was widespread near Yangtze river. The South China tiger and Indochinese tiger probably easily killed and prey on these adult crocodile/alligator just like the jaguar and caiman relationship in the Pantanal and other parts of the Americas. Unfortunately, Siamese crocodile is almost extinct in wild and the South China tiger is extinct in wild.
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RE: ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris) - Greatearth - 01-07-2018, 03:55 PM
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