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

[GuateGojira]

(02-12-2019, 06:01 AM)Wolverine Wrote: Guate wrote : "Sankhala's book is confusing and even dangerous to use it, it sale very weird ideas about the tiger behavior"

Guate, forgive me but I think you have not authority do judge such a remarkable scientist as Dr Kailash Shankala, an icon of "Project Tiger". While you no doubt are good poster, your background has nothing to do with biology, but more to do with business or computer sciences. If businessmen start teaching biologists and dentists start to teach nuclear physisists this is the sure way of collapse of the civillisation.

Sorry but this is very unfair from your part. You said that Dr Karanth (a real tiger scientist/expert which base his knowledge in Science) was not good, remember?

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So how can you came here to tell me that I can't critizece Sankhala when he is not a good tiger investigator? I mean, I have read the books of the scientists Schaller, McDougal, Sunquist, Mountforth, Karanth, Thapar and now of Dr Chundawat and NONE of them describe the loony things that Sankhala said about tigers. I have READ all these books, so I CAN speak about them. Have you read the Sankala's book? I can tell you, none of them quote a single thing of Sankhala's crazy book regarding the behaviour of the tigers in the wild.

He may be an "icon" of tiger project but his ideas are the main reason why the project failed! I am reading all this case of the tiger numbers presented by the Indian goverment and it seems that are somewhat wrong, even REAL experts like Dr Karanth and Dr Chundawat, togheter with the real "tiger man" Valmik Thapar", have rised a warning about these estimations made by the Indian goverment. In the final chapters of the new book of Dr Chundawat of 2018 he described how the authorities inflate the numbes of the tigers so the people can see that they are working "correctly" to preserve the tigers. I can tell you that all the crazy ideas of Sankhala, that tigers are not territorial, that they migrate and that paw prints is a good tool, are still used by officers and this is one of the main complains of Dr Karanth.

So no, I am not agree with Sankhala, just like all the experts that I have mentioned, and IF you are going to defent someone's work, I can advise you to read the work first.


On the "tiger vs dhole" issue, I see that there is an agreement to stop the discussion, which is sad. I found a new interaction case in Panna described by Dr Chundawat and  also by Dr Seidensticker. Reply