Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

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(01-24-2019, 11:44 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(01-24-2019, 07:48 AM)Rishi Wrote:

(01-24-2019, 12:14 AM)Pckts Wrote: For the most part, but there are things like infection and wounds which cause starvation that durability can do little to protect, these are outliers of course.
Considering most big cats withstand wounds that sometimes are the loss of an eye or worse, it's going to take an exceptional circumstance for a big cat to be killed by a defensive attack from a smaller cat.

Exactly! 

A leopard may be capable of surviving an assault of a tigress, but managing to kill the aggressor is another thing entirely.
It would still make some sense if the tigress died of her injuries later on, but mutual "killed on spot" case is way to outlandish.

I agree with @Rage2277. They may have used the dead leopard to save their own behinds...

Maybe, maybe not. I also would like to see more, but I don´t still keep that impossible, that it would have happened also in the way it is said to be. There were a lot of people on that photo, pity that no-one knows anyone there, it would be interesting to know more. Then again overall there is quite little information about causes of death, what comes to tigers killed by other animals. You can find sometimes some case, where is said, that most probably crocodile, another with leopard involved, then gaur can be mentioned. But when seeing statistics, there is just "natural causes 74". When looking statistics, that number most probably include tigers with old age and then tigers killed by other animals. There is for sure more information somewhere, but either it is very difficult to find or only in use of some researchers. I have even thought, that does someone want to protect "tiger reputation" and not giving information about cases where some other animal kills tiger.... people can be sometimes very odd.

But anyway, when something is questioned, it still doesn´t mean that it is a lie. To be 100% sure, more information would be needed. But I am personally 100% sure, that two big cats like leopard and tiger can fight with result like in that newspaper article. Did it happen in that case, that is a question which no-one here can answer 100% sure based on what I have seen, including myself :) But if someone can find more information, maybe sharing it here one day.

One thing which I forgot to write. Those photos and that article didn´t include information was there suspected maybe, that during that fight tigress might have fallen from tree at some point. We have seen videos where tigress chases leopard to a tree and quite high, if for some reason falling from there, it could have cause internal injuries. That could be the reason to put a tiger to freezer for later more accurate investigation about cause of death. And some other possibilities too, but because all speculation maybe not using more space to go through all possibilities :) I know that India is a big country, but really if possible, it would be really nice if some member from there could look even briefly if any extra information could be found, there are some names after all and maybe they would tell more if sending email and asking. Reply