Tigers hunting and killing large pachyderms

[Vegeta San]

(09-06-2018, 12:49 AM)Spalea Wrote: Here we go again ! We have to read and suffer kilometers of biased accounts about adult tusker elephants and adult rhino killed by insatiable and invulnerable tigers. Avid tigers wanted to slaughter any big opponents living around it.

I think the tiger is, individually, the most extant accomplished predator on land. But you don't do it any favors by upholding the merciless predator myth. No one true scientist would take himself seriously such sentences or titles like "death by a thousand cuts" (read #2). That is ridiculous and laughable.

The only honest and valid account I reproduce here is from the #1 given by @brotherbear :

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/o...536997.ece 
 
A 20-year-old female elephant has been killed by a tiger in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), a forest official said.
The half-eaten body of the pachyderm was found by a forest patrolling team on Friday morning, Uttarakhand Chief Wildlife Warden Srikant Chandola said.
‘Rare incident'
“The killing of elephant calves by a tiger is a common incident in jungles, but this is a very rare incident when the tiger has attacked and killed an adolescent elephant,” he added.


It speaks about an adolescent elephant, that is the fact. 

Wake up, biased tiger fans and groupies ! You're lending some human attributes (appetite for power and massacre) to the tiger. It's called anthropomorphism.

I'm not a "biased tiger fan"! 'Tiger' is one of my favourite animal along with lion, jaguar and bear. I saw you mocking people right here on wildfact. Which is not a right place, please don't mock and insult people here.

@Rishi, newspaper articles contain what happens in daily life. Not a folktales or something else. Indeed, I posted accounts from popular literature like Jim Corbett and Colonel kesri singh,etc...

Here's the account from Kerala clearly telling that elephants died were not "sick"!
"Thiruvananthapuram: At least 41 wild elephants have died in Kerala's forest ranges in the last six months however, none of these deaths were due to wither drought conditions or due to the lack of food and water in the forest, according to Forest Minister K Raju in a written reply in the Assembly.

Wild elephants have died due to attacks by tigers, inter conflict between jumbos, electrocution and because of other natural causes, he said."

By the way thanks giving more details from that link.


@Jeffrey, well do you have any proof for that or it was your opinion? Opinions aren't equal to proves. In some of my accounts tiger just finished Elephant after a fight takes place all night. According to those, it doesn't take "days", if there's a serious combat. Maybe a half day or something like that. 


Tigers are not house cats. There's a famous video of measuring tiger paw swipe. They estimated the serious swipe of 10,000lbs. So not a little amount. That's the Weight of average bull tusker Elephant. I'm not telling they kill them by paw swipes, they just kill them by leaping on them by biting flesh off, and clawing and making the animal bleed to death. 

If this is just a fanboy statement or something. Then, all the authorities mentioned there are biased tiger fans, "Colonel kesri singh" is a biased tiger fan, and famous biologist, first hand authority Dr.mel sunquist is a biased tiger fan. Which they're not. Reply