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

[Pckts]

About prey size to tiger size,
I see a lot of talk about Kaziranga Tiger size and rightfully so, but lets no forget that Corbett is also assumed to have equally as large of Tigers as Kaziranga. But if you compare pictures, you can see that Kaziranga still has a more massively built tiger more often than not compared to corbett, but its not like Khali wasn't a massive tiger in his own right. Now that we know corbett has a large amount of elephants same with kaziranga, but kaziranga also has rhino, gaur and water buffalo. So all may contribute to the exceptional mass of the Kaziranga tiger, but the other thing that I really think makes a large difference is the terrain. Kaziranga has huge grass, wet plains and rough terrain that will all contribut to a larger cat that needs more power to take down this large prey all the while doing in a terrain that is extremely taxing on their body. Moving 250kg plus through high glass and 2' depth of water is going to take a lot of power. Like watching that massive kaziranga tiger run through the marsh to capture that cattle. You could just see the amount of power needed to move that fast, same with the tigress charging the FD on elephant grass through the tall grass. Both quite impressive displays of power. Reply