Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

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An answer as concerns the #1130 of the "Tiger predation".

(11-30-2017, 07:31 PM)BARKA Wrote: Here's an EXTRAORDINARY account of a Sunderbans Tiger killing a large Saltwater Crocodile, by Dr Sanyal, a pioneer of project Tiger in the Sunderbans area.


"As the boat ambled on, Dr. Sanyal told of an eyewitness account reported many years ago: Crossing a broad river, like this one, a tiger had been followed by a crocodile. Maneuvering alongside the tiger, the crocodile thrashed its great tail, striking the tiger across his nose. Here Dr. Sanyal straightened his back and raised his head imperiously; unconsciously, he assumed the mien and manner of the hero-beast. "Tiger had blood coming out of his nose," Dr. Sanyal said, majestically. "But he did not say a thing. He kept on swimming. As soon as he got to the other side, he put one paw on the ground, and he turned with the second paw and came up under the crocodile's belly, and flipped him"-eighteen hundred pounds of estuarine crocodile, which the tiger then ripped open. There was a pause while we savored this tale of strategy and courage. Dr. Sanyal had regained his own gentle manner. "And this is why we love Tiger," he said."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/tigerland

Impressive account (Extraordinary as it is said...) indeed... But just to balance the truth and reduce some fantasies:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...tiger.html

And to sum up briefly this article I repeat the final conclusion:

"While it was rare for large predators to confront one another, he said, crocodiles have an advantage in water. "Salt water crocodiles are very powerful. Tigers cross creeks to move from one island to another in the Sundarbans and a crocodile in water is definitely much more powerful than a tiger," he said. " Reply