Personal Opinion & Speculations

[Rishi]

@sanjay @Brehm

(10-09-2017, 09:55 PM)Pckts Wrote: Because Bird is bigger than Sundarban and because Sundarban is low on testosterone, Sundarban is unable to remove Bird from the territory.
The result is Bird and Sundarban have formed a coalition and often spend time in the water playing together.

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Quote:Bird mating with Tibo at Tiger Canyons.

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Sundaban is the dominant territorial male. For 3 days Sundaban mated with Tibo and on the third day Bird is allowed to mate with Tibo, just twice.

Back in the days, the paintings of royal hunts in the western kingdoms of Punjab & Rajputana (which also happened to be ones with significant lion populations) almost always showed a pair of tigers.

All types of hunts...

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I had brought this up once in "Asiatic lion reintroduction Project" thread, while discussing how tigers might have coexisted in those lion country.

These duos were more likely mating pairs though... Reply