Tiger Predation

[Ashutosh]

@Greatearth Tigers and Estuarine crocodiles give each other a wide berth in Sunderbans. Makes sense as well because their overlap is minimal. It’s a different dynamic to Mainland tigers and mugger crocodiles where tigers are definitely the dominant of the two. I don’t know who told you about saltwater crocodiles on western coast, but there are none on western coast. All saltwater crocodiles are found in Bay of Bengal, so India’s eastern coast and Andaman Islands.

Till the 1970s, there were tigers in Bhitarkanika national park (today it’s famous for huge saltwater crocodiles), and this also being a mangrove system, it would have been interesting to see the dynamic in play here between the two apex predators especially as crocodiles here are bigger than Sunderbans. Reply