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03-16-2015, 10:11 AM( This post was last modified: 03-16-2015, 10:13 AM by GuateGojira )
(03-16-2015, 09:39 AM)'Roflcopters' Wrote: Recently, ‘Gabber’ got into a fight with another male in the park that was witnessed by many on-lookers and severely injured. I have heard from a reliable source that he was in numerous fights with a bigger male and was swiped across the muzzle after the collar was fitted. It is without doubt that collars on male tigers or leopards hamper and prevent them from proper breeding, and they usually lose out to stronger cats without the heavy tightly fitted collar. It is quite possible that he is unable to hunt large animals now and may not survive into the near future…!
With all the respect that "Bruce" (the author of that webpage) deserve, that is pure CRAP!
The collar has nothing to do with fights, wins and looses among tigers. This tiger Gabbar loosed against a bigger male, so it is logical to conclude that the other male would win. Blaming the radiocollar is silly and even pathetic.
There is a HUGE quantity of evidence that prove that radiocollared tigers breed perfectly, males and females, and if they loose against other tigers, it has NOTHING to do with radiocollars.
This "Bruce" should learn about the studies made in Nepal and Nagarahole, for example. The Sauraha male was radiocollared in 1974 and up to 1979 he never losed a fight with the radiocollar on it! In fact, he monopolized the breeding in Chitwan during its kingdom. The two "young" males from Nagarahole (T-03 and T-04) survived very well with the radiocollars, with T-03 that died from natural causes (killed by a gaur) and T-04 became a territorial male.
Although I am agree that radiocollaring tigers for tourism, which seems a BAD practice in some parks, is simply futile as it doesn't have any scientific purpose, he can't blame the radiocollar method based on this, attacking a good method without any real evidence. The blame goes to the people that makes bad use of the method, not the method itself. "Bruce" should learn this, before to make comments like this.