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

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(08-30-2018, 12:27 PM)Spalea Wrote: So what do you call the "revenge behavior" ? 

Ok buddy, I'll tell you. As one zoologist - a friend of mine said: "Some male lions kill hyenas. Tiger however can intentionally by prolonged effort destroy and wipe out entire specie from his territory - grey wolf in Russian Far East, by hunting down and discovering all canids including cubs whenever they hide. Amur tiger is applying a genocide towards grey wolves in Rusian Far East, however lions are not inclined to destroy all hyenas or other competitors in their domain because they are not capable of such prolonged systematic reasonable efforts. Some male lions simply destroy hyenas appearing in the front of their eyes, but if the enemy or competitor is not in the front of their eyes lions simply forget about him.

I'll describe two cases of revenge behavior of tiger on which the lion in my opinion is not capable. 

1. Jim Corbett describes a case when tiger after attacking a herd of domestic buffaloes 5-6 strong got a injury because animals protected themselves fiercly. After the tiger was injured he got mad to the buffaloes for the resistance they applied to him and started to hunt down and kill all animals from the herd one by one in continuation of many hours and many miles until finally he killed all the buffaloes who enraged him and dared to resist. 

2. Johh Valiant, author of the book "Tiger" describes a documentary case from 90's when a male tiger from Russian Far East was hunting deliberately one particular man (poacher) who previous years try to shoot the tiger unsuccefully and injured the cat several times. This tiger ignored all other hunters and people in the forest and tracked down this particular person for many weeks until finaly killed the man.
I have never heard of such of behavior in lions.


I agree with you that social animals and more specialy predators who hunt collectively in groups as a rule should be smarter and should have more sofisticated brains than the solitary hunters, but this is not the case with the lion and the tiger. Reply