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

[Ashutosh]

@Pckts, depends on what you consider a big bull. Kaziranga tigers kill huge water buffaloes. Those rival most gaur bulls, weighing close to a ton.

And, from the study above, my calculations extrapolate that taking into account the different percentage of males and female gaurs killed, the average male gaur preyed upon ranged from 900 kilos if the average weight of female is assumed at 650 kilos to males killed averaging 993 kilos for the average weight of females at 600 kilos.

Now, the thing about averages is it has a fluctuation in both direction. Meaning if we take the figure of 900 kilos for male gaur predation as a figure, you are possibly looking at a range of 750-1050 +- 50. If we take the other end of the spectrum of average males killed at 993 kilos, then you have a higher chance of fluctuation with specimens from 750-1250.

You can take any of those figures, the underlying data shows that 1000 kilo bulls are very much in the ballpark, some even bigger. Of course unless there is video evidence of a tiger taking down a gaur, there will be many who will be skeptical, and that’s fine as well. Reply