Male Tigers with Cubs

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(11-20-2014, 12:16 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: The surprise Gaute was that two adult females shared a killed together with the common male. Which even if they are sisters or not, (we don't know for sure) they don't generally tolerate each other
I.E. Machlis daughters.

Edit: I probably agree that Male tigers will let a female with HIS cubs feed first, its only natural but a male tiger is far less likely to let a female keep her kill when there are no cubs present, even if they are mates. In most cases, that is.
Like the Male, Nick, who attacked machli, oddly enough, nick actually met machli while she still had cubs fathered from the first disappeared male and he did not attack them, maybe he didn't know where they were, but not sure, this male below steals a kill from a mate or possible mate

Like Bamera who is said to steal kills from his mates, not sure if he stole kills from his mates when they had cubs but I thought that he may have, and his son is becoming quite proficient at it now as well. But push comes to shove, I think a Tiger father is just as caring towards his cubs as Lions are, but same with lions, he will put up with them till a certain point, than its time for them to get out or take the territory for themselves.

Like Yedda Anna did with his son Ookhan I believe or Bam with his dad, Raja with his father, etc.

 

I had already clarified this before:
Evidence suggests that male tigers allow females and his cubs to eat first, even when they have killed the prey. On the other hand, tigers do steal kills from other subordinated specimens when they can.
 
These are two different situations and we don’t know more because these conclusions are based in qualitative evidence and not quantitative data, in this case, we need more studies to actually state this as a scientific fact. Interestingly, the only place with enough evidence is Ranthambore (and now probably also Tadoba), thanks to the observations of Valmik Thapar and a few other “amateur” or “professional” photographers.
 
Now, about the behavior of father and subadult son, which has not been discussed yet, that was well defined in the radiocollaring studies in Nepal (at least), when it was established that the fathers do tolerate they sons up to the dispersal age at 2 years old. After that, they are pushed out or simple abandon the area, although exceptional cases do happen, like the case of the Dakre male (T-102), which never left its area because there was no other adult male that pushed him out from the area.
 
Finally, about the "sisters" issue, it is true that there are different behaviors in animals, but normally, tigress avoid each other and respect they territories, but in rare occasions they join to share a kill. Take in count my words, they do this RARELY, they normally don’t do that. However, taking in count that tigresses are highly territorial, the logic suggestion is that those tigresses that joined the Wagdoh male were probably sisters.
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