Lions and Tigers in India

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Here you can see that Chitwan NP have a good prey base both the large animals are comparatively few. Sunquist (1981) mentioned that gaurs live in parts not frequented by tigers. Take in count that at such a low population, it is very difficult for a tiger to found a gaur and much more easy to found a deer. So, by simple logic, the tiger will prey much more in chital and sambar than in gaur, in the case of Chitwan.

As far I know, there is no more wild buffalo in Chitwan, none of the scientific documents mention them, probably the page is quoting an old source when wild buffaloes lived through all the Terai arc.

Now, about the predation on rhino, the Chitwan tigers only kill young rhinos, at difference of those from Kaziranga. Probably they seek an easy prey although those from Kaziranga also have large prey base but still kill adult rhinos.

Someone in the old AVA forum posted a document of rhino deaths and only young specimens were killed by tigers. In this document, the oldest rhino killed by tigers was a specimen (no sex identified) of 3 years old (no horn) killed in November 21 of 2001.
 

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(04-24-2014, 04:21 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: http://books.google.com/books?id=dbQ8AAA...an&f=false

Here is a great book on tigers in Chitwan. Most of the pages are available. Its called
Riding the Tiger

 

The book "Riding the Tiger" of 1999 is an encyclopedic document with scientific information about the tigers through all its range, not only Nepal. The document is fascinating and the first two chapters are BASIC in all my statements and investigations.

I found it complete in the page of 21 century tigers, but now the link is down and is so heavy that I can't download it to an email.

Any option for send it to you, or through a page?
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