Tiger Predation

[Apex Titan]

(10-27-2022, 03:43 PM)bigcatlover Wrote:

(10-26-2022, 06:39 PM)Apex Titan Wrote: "Camera trap photograph of a tiger eating an elephant. The elephant was killed by this tiger on 27-03-2013 early morning."

(A 7 year old male tusker elephant was killed, the tigress fed on this kill for almost 8 days) This looks like a tigress:

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These photos can be seen on the walls in the information center of Silent Valley National Park:

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No doubt an impressive feat but the elephant seems to be only 3 times the size of the tiger visually ( i am no expert) but it looks like a calf or maybe there are pgmy asiatic elephants in kerala?

The elephant was a juvenile tusker around 6.5 - 7 years old.

Here's the report referring to the account (pictures) I posted:

"Tigers have hunted down two elephants, including a young one, last month in Kerala forests."

"The killing of the young elephant at Sairandhri in the Silent Valley National Park has caught the wildlife experts by surprise as tigers are known to target mostly cubs. The nearly seven-year-old tusker was hunted down by the tiger near the trek path that runs through the forest area."

"The ill-fated elephant had charged at two forest officials inside the forest on the eve of its death. A few researchers and forest officials had reported hearing loud cries of the animal and roaring of the tiger in early hours of March 27. The body of the animal was found on the trek path the next morning, said M. Joshil, Assistant Wildlife Warden of the park."

"Signs of battle between the two animals were visible at the site where the carcass was found. Pug marks of the tiger were also spotted at the site. The elephant had suffered big wounds on the hind limbs indicating that it was attacked from behind, he said." 

https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp...579517.ece

Here's another account of a tiger that killed a young elephant:

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"We managed to get a trip into the forest in the evening and were very lucky to see an Elephant carcass. We were told that a Tiger had killed the elephant, which was an adolescent and not a fully grown one. But how the Tiger managed to bring it down was a surprise and we couldn't understand. Normally elephants are in groups and how did the tiger manage this!!!!"...

"We could see tiger pugmarks all around the carcass. The belly was open and all intestines were out, typical of a tiger kill, as they first remove the intestines before they gorge on the meat. A part of its trunk was bitten off."..

http://malinisri.blogspot.com/ Reply