Felids Interactions - Intraspecific Conflicts

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seems like there was a third tiger too, it ran away once the fight started. did anyone else see that? tfs

edit: just found out, it was T57 and T39/Noor resting together after mating. T58 ran up on them and started the fight. T39/Noor quickly ran away and despite being ambushed, T57 quickly took control of the fight and won. on that note, T57 is the most powerful male in Ranthambore. he also was behind the brutal mauling of Kumbha\T34 not too long ago. those of you that aren’t aware, both T58 and T57 are brothers. 


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One of the greatest natural history moment witnessed yesterday at the Ranthambore Tiger reserve. As we started our full day safari and reached the Zone 6 around 10.30 we got to see the mating pair of T 57 and T 39, as we were photographing them we saw a mystery tiger pop out of the bush and cross over the road and he crouched down hearing the roar of T57. After a while we saw the unknown male come out of the bushes and slowly mark his area and cut across to the place where T 57 and T 39 were resting and he crouched to the ground for a few mins before stalking slowly and slowly towards the sleeping tigers, he went up close to the sleeping T 57 and stood there without being noticed. A few seconds later as he put his paw on the sleeping T 57, the crazy fight started with him pinning down T 57, a few seconds later the tables turned and T57 was over him biting his elbow and face. The bloody fight ended and both the tigers moved away after being wounded.

As we were wondering who this male could be we realized it was none other than T 58 whose territory goes around 7 and 8 zone and who is the brother of T 57.

As soon as the fight started we saw T 39 tigress run away from the spot and after a hour we tracked her now to find her mating with another different male called T 34 at Zone 1.

This video was made by Mr Hans Raj and was witnessed by 3 guides, 3 drivers, 7 of my guests and 2 foreigners as we were the only  three vehicles on a full day safari.

We were the only lucky 16 people who got to witness this at Ranthambore National park and this video credit entirely goes to Mr Hansraj Gurjar

The timing of the fight was around 11:24 am on 15 Oct 19 at Zone 6 and this lasted for around 2:12 mins in total


Credits to Harsha Narasimhamurthy. Reply