Smilodon populator

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(04-27-2022, 01:57 AM)Spalea Wrote: About #108: " so cubs are allowed to eat even before the dominant male " . Unthinkable as concerns the pride of lions, even if, sometimes,  the males are able to leave the cubs eating before the females.

Correct, and that is something that is very interesting in tigers. This observations were made in Kanha and Ranthambore, thanks to its relativelly open habitat. In Chitwan it was not possible to check, habitat is too close for direct observations, except for baiting sites. Other behaviours like taking care of they cubs has been observed in Ranthambore and Panna and in the case of Chitwan, Sunquist found that the young adult M104 (previous to its independance) spend more time with its father M105 than with his mother or sister, although keeping a good distance most of the time. 

What I like the most is that tigers seems to recognize they relatives at some degree. Let's remember the case of the 9 tigers together in Ranthambore, the matriarc (oldest female ) with her cubs of that season, togheter with the dominant male of the area and her previous daughters and her cubs, a "tiger pride", and all of them ate in order, not fighting, all ate they part and the dominant tigress directed the entire activity. Valmik Thapar provided some of the most ground breaking observations ever! Reply