Tiger Predation

[Apex Titan]

(01-31-2024, 10:45 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(01-31-2024, 09:22 PM)Apex Titan Wrote:

(01-30-2024, 07:37 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(01-30-2024, 06:50 PM)Apex Titan Wrote:

(01-30-2024, 06:24 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(01-30-2024, 06:20 PM)Apex Titan Wrote: A bull gaur killed by a tigress:

Her and her 3 18 month old sub adults.

An 18 month old tiger is not a sub-adult. An 18 month old tiger is a juvenile.

So her and her 3 juvenile cubs.

You’re splitting hairs, no matter how you slice it, it’s 4-500kg’s of Tiger attacking this Gaur, if they actually made the kill.

How do you know that the juveniles assisted their mother in making this kill?  For all we know, the tigress could have single-handedly (yes, tigresses also single-handedly hunt and kill bull gaurs) killed this bull gaur and then shared the kill with her cubs. There's many accounts of this happening.

Just like male tigers do sometimes, they'll single-handedly kill a large bull gaur and then share the kill with his family.

For all we know the Gaur died of natural causes hence the lack of wounds on the the neck or face. That works both ways, but the only way a Tigress is taking down a bull gaur is with help, plain and simple. There was a literal video of a Tigress and her young family taking down a gaur and with 3 sub adult Tigers that all can be around 120kgs or more at that age, you can be fairly certain they will participate in a kill. 

Save me the "many accounts''
There are no real accounts of Tigress or even Male Tigers taking down bull Gaurs, there are certainly Tigers feeding on them but never once has a kill been documented, especially when talking about prime Bulls. Generally what happens when a Big Bull comes across a Tiger, it is always the Tiger that gets chased off, not the other way around. Not saying they couldn't kill one but it is an extremely rare occurrence and would take a long time, it's no different than big Cape Bachelors and Lions, neither cat is going to take on a prime bull alone and easily kill it.

This absolutely ridiculous, laughable and ignorant statement of yours doesn't even deserve a proper response from me.

In spite of all the mountains of evidence, scientific studies and accounts that exist which prove otherwise, you still stated this nonsense. Unbelievable!!

Quote:There are no real accounts of Tigress or even Male Tigers taking down bull Gaurs, there are certainly Tigers feeding on them but never once has a kill been documented, especially when talking about prime Bulls.

      

What a joke! Reply