Tigers hunting and killing large pachyderms

[parvez]

This is picture of neck and blood vessels. The front portion of neck only has major blood vessels. The back of neck doesn't have them. It will be similar in mega mammals. So obviously cervical vertebrae are targeted and broken, 

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[Vegeta San]

(10-02-2018, 11:49 AM)Roflcopters Wrote: the sub adult male had nothing to do with the female rhino’s death, it was KZT085 that killed the rhino and the sub adult male.

I knew that it's an assumption. Was it really confirmed that another tiger that killed these two? Reply

[Rishi]

(10-03-2018, 03:04 PM)Vegeta San Wrote:

(10-02-2018, 11:49 AM)Roflcopters Wrote: the sub adult male had nothing to do with the female rhino’s death, it was KZT085 that killed the rhino and the sub adult male.

I knew that it's an assumption. Was it really confirmed that another tiger that killed these two?

Official statement said:
"The second possibility is that while an adult tiger killed the rhino, the sub-adult tiger strayed into the adult tiger’s territory to take a share of the rhino meat, during which the older tiger killed him. Fresh tiger droppings close to the two carcasses were noticed on Tuesday, lending more weight to this suspicion."

It took place in Bagori Range of Kaziranga tourism zone, KZT-85's turf.

Sources:
https://www.kaziranga-national-park.com/blog/royal-bengal-tiger-and-rhinoceros-found-dead-in-kaziranga/
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/royal-bengal-tiger-rhinoceros-found-dead-in-kaziranga-4927457/ Reply

[brotherbear]

More about tigers killing rhinoceros on the Tiger Predation topic post #1414. Reply

[brotherbear]

https://plus.google.com/1180487090676201...svu6RHmxYZ  
  
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]here is an account of KZT085’s predation on a adult female rhino (Nov/2017) and killing a young sub adult male tiger that showed up to eat. [/color]

[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]After the terrible incident of losing three one-horned rhinos in three days in Kaziranga, the park again mourned the death of one more rhino and a Royal Bengal Tiger. However, this time the reason for the death is not poaching but a brawl between the two animals which unfortunately lost their lives in the fight. The carcasses of the two animals of endangered species were found lying next to each other on Tuesday, Nov 7, 2017, by the forest officials in the Bagori Range of the park.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]The forest officials suspect the reason to be the fight between the two animals on the account that the rhino’s horn and the body parts of the tiger were intact. While the dead tiger is said to be a sub-adult male of about two-and-a-half-year, the rhino was a female of around 20 years. According to officials, another possible reason of the death of the animals could be that an adult tiger might have killed the rhino, and the sub-adult tiger strayed into the adult tiger’s territory and eyed a share of the rhino meat, reluctant to share, the older tiger might have killed him as well. The officials suggest this theory after finding fresh tiger droppings close to the two carcasses.[/color]
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]Tiger predation is a common case in Kaziranga National Park, however, the death of both the animals is the rarest sight in the reserve. There have been around 472 rhinos due to tiger predation in Kaziranga National Park between the year 1982 and 2014 and the highest casualties of around 26 rhinos were reported in the year 2004.[/color] Reply