Are Tigers 'Brainier' Than Lions?

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(11-01-2014, 11:40 PM)'Pckts' Wrote: I'd be carefull using singular examples as rules. Remember the Machli doc, where she was on a kill then a male rushed in, fought her, dominated her, then ate her kill. It will always depend on the individual male, I've seen lions share kills with hyennas before, so its very hard to put a rule of thumb to them.

 

 

Again, you are confused. I specifically said "male with females and cubs", did I say other thing?

Besides, of course that a male dominant tiger will steal the kill from a female if he can. For example, Nichols (1997) stated that the famous male Charger of Bandhavgarh stole many kills of Sita when he have the chance. However, this was when she don't have cubs. Interestingly, this same phenomenon of "cubs eat first" had been observed in at least three different places (Kanha, Ranthambore and Bandhavgarh).

In the about eight cases recorded, always involving cubs, male tigers do share they kills and allow the female and cubs to eat first. So, no, this is NOT a singular case, I advice to read a little more on the issue first before comment. I recommend you to buy and read these books, just like I have done:
1. The deer and the tiger - Schaller
2. Tiger, the secret life - Thappar
3. Tiger, portrait of a predator - McDougal
4. The way of the tiger - Karanth
5. Sita, the life of a wild tigress (in National Geographic magazine, 1997) - Nichols.
6. Tiger, the ultimate guide - Thapar - this book is mandatory! [img]images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

When you read them, you will see that all my statements are always based in actual facts, not single news reports, hearsay and other second hand sources.

Data suggest that although tigers do steal kills as any other dominant cat, they do share and care when the tigress have cubs, this have evolutionary sense, as any cub is a chance to perpetuate its genetic. In this particular aspect, it seems that Ranthambore males are way more tolerant than in other regions, but this is based only in qualitative data of that single region.
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