Maximum size of prey that a single male lion or tiger can kill

[Ashutosh]

@GuateGojira, the rarity of tiger vs rhino is because of humans. Other than Kaziranga and Chitwan and to a stretch, Orang, there really aren’t places in the wild with significant population of either to kind of emphasise the dynamic between the two species.

For example, till 1908, the Javan rhino or lesser one horned rhino were found in Sunderbans and they made up a part of the diet of Sunderbans tigers. Now, both the tiger and rhino are significantly smaller (not as some exaggerate, but a significant percentage) in the mainland as compared to Sunderbans, but, the dynamic was that of prey and predator. 

Dudhwa barely has any rhinos, but you still hear of cases of tiger attacks like the one @Rishi posted yesterday. 

We might never fully understand what the dynamic between these two species was for thousands of years, but, with rhinos now being moved out to spaces also occupied by tigers, we get to see how species adapt and form a new dynamic. Reply