Tiger Predation

[Apex Titan]

From leading tiger expert & scientist - Ullas Karanth

Tigers routinely kill adult male gaur that exceed the size of sub-adult male Rhinos:

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8vco...ur&f=false


Tigers routinely kill adult gaur, five times their own weight:

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W6ks...ht&f=false



Tigers do take the largest suids, bovids and cervids. In Kanha National Park in central India, Schaller (1967) found that tigers killed gaur and swamp deer when they were part of the ungulate assemblages. Karanth (1988) reported heavy predation on solitary adult gaur in Nagarahole National Park in southern India:

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From George Schaller

One of the largest Bull gaurs ever seen at Kanha was killed by a tiger:

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KOVG...er&f=false



Tigress killed a huge 2000-pound Bull gaur:

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https://archive.org/details/naturalistot...her+beasts


Gaurs and water buffalos weighing over a ton have been killed by tigers, weighing about a sixth as much:

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