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Post by brobear on May 30, 2023 6:56:01 GMT -5
Stories abound concerning tigers hunting and killing healthy full-grown rhinos. Is there any truth to these tales?
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Post by yz on May 30, 2023 10:01:38 GMT -5
Definitely not. 😂 it takes multiple lions to even successfully hunt one. A lone tiger would get stomped to death
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Post by Ransik on May 30, 2023 11:58:01 GMT -5
Many of these alleged photos of tigers standing right next to dead rhinos are just showing poached rhinos.There is a story about the killing of a 35-year-old female rhino by a tiger in Dudhwa national park from times of India. If I'm not mistaken 35 year old is very old for a rhino.
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Post by arctozilla on May 30, 2023 13:36:40 GMT -5
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Post by arctozilla on May 30, 2023 13:42:34 GMT -5
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Post by arctozilla on May 30, 2023 13:49:37 GMT -5
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Post by yz on May 31, 2023 4:46:10 GMT -5
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Post by arctozilla on May 31, 2023 6:12:17 GMT -5
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Post by arctozilla on May 31, 2023 6:20:23 GMT -5
 Photo of a tiger just eating a dead rhino proves nothing. In fact the author of the photo said the rhino was scavenged XD |
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Post by yz on May 31, 2023 6:22:08 GMT -5
Photo of a tiger just eating a dead rhino proves nothing. In fact the author of the photo said the rhino was scavenged XD Or perhaps hyenas could actually kill elephants 😂  |
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Post by arctozilla on May 31, 2023 6:45:42 GMT -5
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Post by arctozilla on May 31, 2023 7:13:18 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on May 31, 2023 19:33:16 GMT -5
Nice thread 🤏🕶😳
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Post by arctozilla on Jun 1, 2023 15:09:30 GMT -5
Wildlife Institute of India’s Tiger Expert - Rabin Sharma’s documented cases of adult Rhino predation by tigers. 28th February, 2008. I was supervising the field preparation for upcoming population estimation for Asiatic Wild Buffalo (Bubalus Arnee). With me was Tarun Gogoi (for mapping), Prabhat Hazarika (Armed Guard) & Lakhi Das (Driver). At around 2.40 pm we were travelling eastwards from Rutikhowa junction. Suddenly, we saw a Rhino was running very fast from our left side to right side crossing the road just in front of us. A deer (we presumed) ran (blurred) after the rhino. I immediately asked Lakhi to switch off the vehicle because I was anticipating a tiger to cross the road after the fleeing rhino & deer. In the meantime we heard a loud crashing sound towards our right. We waited for two minutes. No tiger. We thought that the tiger has sensed us and aborted the hunt. So, we got down from the vehicle and gone to inspect the place from where crashing sound came. Behold! An adult female rhino was lying down in agony. Hamstrings of the hind legs were severed, no other injury. The rhino was fully alive. We returned to Rutikhowa Camp and brought the staff to show the location of the injured rhino. When, we reached the spot, fresh blood was oozing out from the hind portion. My friends insisted on taking few photos with a live wild rhino! Then I had fleeting glimpse of TIGERS (may be 3 or 4) approx. 40 feet behind my friends. Hurried back to the road and sent the msg to the Director Surendranath Buragohain & DFO Bankim Sarma. Next day the rhino was found half devoured. That rhino was ambushed by a trio of tigers, who later killed the former after it fell down of agony. ML can't read. Another article says that the rhino was pregnant so of course it would've been vulnerable to an attack from three tigers. "On 26 February 2008, a pregnant rhino was killed by the tigers at Rutikhowa beel under. Bagori range." www.researchgate.net/publication/200543475_'Functional_shifting'_and_mechanism_of_tiger-predation_on_the_Indian_Rhinoceros  Those injures weren't caused by the tigers. The injures don't match with tiger bite and claws, that's a wire snare. www.lilongwewildlife.org/2014/05/18/snaring/ |
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Post by arctozilla on Jun 2, 2023 1:12:03 GMT -5
A tiger sneaked into the protected rhino area in Dudhwa National Park (DNP) and killed a 11-month old rhino calf and injured its mother, forest department sources said here. “The calf was killed while its mother named Sada was injured in the tiger attack,” DNP Deputy Director V K Singh told PTI. The mutilated carcass of the calf was recovered today from Kakraha Tal when patrolling teams, he said, adding that pugmarks of a tiger were also detected there following which patrolling has been intensified with deployment of half a dozen elephants for the purpose. Four rhinos have been killed so far in tiger attacks while two rhinos, Himrani and Deepa, have sustained injuries. archive.siasat.com/news/tiger-kills-rhino-calf-injures-mother-508651/The article is from 2013 and if there was a tiger attack on a mother rhino in Dudwha then it would be mentioned in the 2015 article of WWF listing tiger interactions with rhinos in Dudwha but it ain't. In fact it said only two cases of tigers attacking adult rhinos, the four rhinos killed by tigers at Dudwha were probably calves as well. Check at reply #4 |
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Post by arctozilla on Jun 3, 2023 6:23:52 GMT -5
Tiger kills two rhinos in Chitwan February, 2022 A tiger killed an adult rhino and its calf. Both dead rhinos were found pierced and scratched (mauled), indicating that they were attacked and killed by a tiger, thus removing any doubts against poachers: Actually their cause of death is unknown. Here's an article stating this... "...the cause of death has not been determined yet. A national park ranger says both rhinos had scratch wounds in their body as they assume that a tiger might have killed the rhinos. The real cause of death will be known after postmortem, informs Tiwari." english.onlinekhabar.com/rhinos-found-dead-chitwan.htmlUnconfirmed account again! |
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Post by arctozilla on Jun 3, 2023 17:37:16 GMT -5
Female rhino killed by tiger in Kaziranga STAFF WRITER 22:10 HRS IST Golaghat (Assam), Jan 2 (PTI) A female rhino was mauled to death by a tiger at Kaziranga National Park in Assam today, forest officials said. The ageing rhino was attacked by the big cat near the Bagori range of the world heritage site, they said. Though Five veterinary doctors rushed to treat the herbivore, but it succumbed to injuries because of low resistance power due to its old age, the officials said. bigcatrescue.org/female-rhino-killed-by-tiger-in-kaziranga/It actually says the rhino couldn't defend herself due to her old age. LOL |
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Post by arctozilla on Jun 8, 2023 7:10:46 GMT -5
Adult rhinos are on the tigers menu: "Tiger attacks on rhinos are not unheard of. Bengal tigers are known to prey on rhino calves and in some cases even adult rhinos make an appearance on the menu. Indian rhinos are listed as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List, while tigers are classified as 'Endangered'." www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-w...er-attack/It says that adult rhinos make appearance tiger's menu in SOME cases, which means rarely. Also making appearance in someone's menu doesn't mean predation. ML can't read lol. |
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Post by brobear on Jun 9, 2023 1:44:19 GMT -5
Adult rhinos are on the tigers menu: "Tiger attacks on rhinos are not unheard of. Bengal tigers are known to prey on rhino calves and in some cases even adult rhinos make an appearance on the menu. Indian rhinos are listed as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List, while tigers are classified as 'Endangered'." www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-w...er-attack/It says that adult rhinos fall under tiger's menu in SOME cases, which means rarely. ML can't read lol. Adult rhinos are taken down by tigers only under peculiar circumstances or conditions which provides disadvantage to the rhino, such as being stuck in mud for example. A healthy uninjured rhinoceros in his (or her) prime, out in the open where it can move freely, is too much for any big cat or even a bear. |
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