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[Sanju]

@Rishi

I too saw the wounds (they are visible in this pics too), and obviously infight causes wounds, not necessarily deaths every time. we can't decide ourselves without internal post mortem reports by seeing pictures and wounds.

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It can also be due to infection or other visceral organ failures. I know that Gir is overcrowded and infighting is the most common thing to happen but not all infights should end up as "dead". Instead of Giving examples from Tigers, can you give examples from other lion populations in Africa?

If you even consider, Tiger for example, most of the Tiger reserves are over populated too and still there are only some rare incidents of Tigresses dying or eaten due to infight, leave tigresses the same goes for males dying due to infight is rare as most of the time they get expelled if lose the fight or escape from their  territory if its stronger adversary but death is not on gir lion scale.

Did you see the same death rate of each tiger per day due to "infighting" like in Gir? Infighting happens b/w every bigcat species but not on this scale and this death rate, even they though too are saturated and crowded. 

Gir is special? absolutely not!

Every time, a lion dead, infighting. Case closed, no further analysis and autopsy reports. The same might have happened in CDV case too but due to pressure on them, they are forced to do tests which revealed the truths they tried to hide.

Like you said, "who knows how many cases go unreported by titling Infighting". Reply