Tiger Predation

[Ashutosh]

According to the tiger census of 2018, there were no tigers in Palamau tiger reserve of Jharkhand. But, a case of a very old tigress dying because of being gored by a herd of gaur has proven that claim to be untrue (although number of tigers is definitely very few).

This tigress was said to be 16 years old, and on discovery had 5 porcupine quills in her body, extremely frail with a puncture wound in the abdomen with her stomach being completely empty. Her canines were only half an inch long, so she was clearly incapacitated and survived by hunting rodents like porcupines. But, when she went after a calf gaur, she was gored even though she did do damage to the gaur, it was a case of nature taking it’s course.

   

   

You can see how thin she has become. She was measured to be 8.7 feet long and had a 3 inch wound in her abdomen.


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