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

[peter]

(09-03-2018, 12:57 PM)Vegeta San Wrote: @peter can i ask you why my replies are not appearing here? 

Did I done anything wrong? I don't think I was. This is a argument right, i know the forum rules and regulations. I didn't surpassed that. 

But then, why my replies getting disappeared?

At the moment, I don't have time to post. For this reason, the tiger thread is moderated by Rishi. 

Apart from posting good info, Rishi edited a number of posts. In my opinion, he has been very lenient. I'm not saying the debate on tigers and large herbivores didn't produce anything at all, but it took a long time to get a kind of result.  

As to the topic discussed. 

There are many hundreds of books about tigers written by hunters, planters, naturalists and Forest Officers. In most of them, you'll find a lot of information on interactions between tigers and the animals they hunt. In old journals like 'The Indian Forester' and the 'Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society', you'll find letters written by planters, hunters and Forest Officers. In quite a few of them, struggles between tigers and large herbivores are described. In the last two decades in particular, a lot more was added by biologists, rangers and (professional) photographers. To keep it short: reliable observations say tigers hunt calves of elephants, water buffaloes, gaur and rhinos. There's also no question that some individuals progress from calves to adults. 

The debate initiated by Paul Cooper has been concluded, that is. Time to move on.

Matias (see the previous post) proposed a different way of getting to knowledge on tigers and the animals they hunt. New perspective. Could be interesting. Reply