Post by pckts on Apr 12, 2014 4:48:22 GMT 5
What in the world did the eagle kill that was 10x's its own weight? haha I showed a eagle needing another eagle to take down one wolf and another eagle killing a smaller wolf. So not sure where you get any animal being 10xs the eagles weight.
And once again, Eagles fly!
Sorry pal, but that is a huge difference, being able to swoop down without being seen, come on now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_ZEuxjTv0
Raja clamps down at 1:02 the gaur is dead at 4:10 seconds. That is 3 minutes to kill a 400lb animal.
Here is a list of tigers preying on gaur, elephants, rhinos etc.
These are some of the Tiger and elephant interactions I posted before on the other forum (dunno whether all this are posted here before), thought of sharing it here.
Tigers usually go for elephant calves, young and juvenile elephants. But they do hunt full grown elephants once in a while, but its a rare incident. Tigers also charge at full grown elephants and stand there ground against the elephants (not always but they do it).
1) I think many would have seen and read this first incident.
"Though other jungle inhabitants seldom interfere with an elephant, a hungry tiger will not hesitate to attack a solitary animal. The tiger will never let go an opportunity to prey upon calves and juveniles. J.C. Daniel in his book, The Asian Elephant, gives a number of recorded instances of tiger predating even upon full-grown elephants. Col Kesri Singh, in his book: The Tiger Of Rajasthan, has given an instance of a fight between a tiger and a big tusker in Assam. "...Some three or four years ago a tiger, having killed a baby elephant, was attacked by a tusker. Instead of trying to get clean away the tiger came at the elephant from the flank or rear, and having got on to his back raked and tore at him with his claws. The fight went on for a long time, the tusker apparently trying to dislodge the tiger by running under and against trees. He seems to have succeeded in this at least once, but only for the tiger to recover and return to the attack...In the morning the area was examined and the story reconstructed from the copious signs left about the area. The aggressor had had the best of it, for the party found the remains of the elephant calf and the dead tuskers huge bulk, atrociously torn, but the tiger had disappeared."
"Death by a Thousand Cuts".
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An elephant is suspected to have died of wounds inflicted by the same tigress that attacked a man at the Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal. Park officials confirmed that the pachyderm, which was found dead Friday night, had fought with the tigress that had mauled a man at the Dhikala tourist complex on the previous night. According to a park official, "The elephant had been spotted with wounds, visibly inflicted by a tiger about five or six days back. "We were keeping track of the animal. Finally we found him lying dead in the forest quite close to the Dhikala complex." The elephant was found to have suffered multiple wounds on its trunk and it was amply evident that these were sustained in a battle with the tigress, which is suspected to have also suffered wounds. The tigress had been spotted with two cubs. These cubs are believed to have been with the mother during the fight with the elephant. Park officials were of the view that the elephant was unable to eat on account of the wounds on its trunk and therefore turned quite weak. Asked why officials did not tranquillise the elephant to treat its wounds, Uttaranchal chief wildlife warden C.K. Chandola told IANS: "It is usually preferred that animals living in their natural habitat find their own natural means to heal themselves. "No one thought that the wounds would prove fatal," he said. "Special teams had been detailed to keep track of the movements of the tigress to assess the nature and kind of wounds it had received in the fight with the elephant." While there is no evidence of the big cat turning into a man-eater, Chandola did not rule out the possibility. "Irreparable wounds or old age and infirmity can force a tiger to turn to man-eating. We have to keep a strict vigil."
citynewslive.com/fullstory2k5-insight-news-status-29-newsID-6008.html
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A 20-year-old female elephant has been killed by a tiger in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), a forest official said.
The half-eaten body of the pachyderm was found by a forest patrolling team on Friday morning, Uttarakhand Chief Wildlife Warden Srikant Chandola said.
‘Rare incident'
“The killing of elephant calves by a tiger is a common incident in jungles, but this is a very rare incident when the tiger has attacked and killed an adolescent elephant,” he added.
www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article1134163.ece
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It was a fight that even surprised the Forest officials of Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR). A duel between a tiger and an elephant in which the big cat prevailed. The tiger reserve rarely has witnessed such incidents in the past although tigers are known to kill elephant calves. Every year, two or three calves are hunted by the tigers in the reserve.
www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=1613
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Riding on elephants, eight tourists from West Bengal had their wish fulfilled on Monday when they spotted a tiger from close quarters in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. But the thrill of watching a big cat soon turned out to be their worst nightmare when a tigress and her cubs pounced on the jumbos they were riding. Luckily, nobody was injured in the incident because of quick work by the mahouts who steered the gentle giants and the tourists out of danger. It was all going fine for the guests who were enjoying a ride in the Bagori range of the park on Manimala and Lakhimai two elephants of the forest department till 6.35 am when all of a sudden a tigeress and its two cubs pounced on the jumbos from behind a bush. Fortunately, the mahouts reacted on time and steered the elephants out of danger. Dipak Das, the owner of the elephants, said, "Like other days, we had started our second trip of private elephant safari in the Bagori range at 6.15 am. We had altogether seven elephants in the trip and there were four persons on each jumbo. On seeing the pachyderms, the tiger tried to attack them. However, the elephants managed to escape because of the mahouts' presence of mind. The two jumbos and all the tourists are unhurt." This is the first such incident in Kaziranga this year.
http://articles.timesofin...nga-national-park-jumbos
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Tiger kills man, injures elephant Dalgaon, Nov 29, 2006. A Royal Bengal tiger which sneaked from the Orang National Park on the night of November 24 last and later killed one Niranjan Das (50) of village Nichilamari under Borchala police outpost also attacked a trained elephant of the Park. Briefing this, DFO, Wildlife informed that the elephant named "Indra" who was engaged alongwith three other domestic elephants of the Park to force the tiger back to the forest area, was seriously injured by the 'man-eater'. The team of forest guards and elephants were compelled to retreat after the severe attack. Tranquiliser specialists also failed to bring the man-eater under control. But to the utter relief of the Park authority and the villagers, the 'man-eater' returned to the Park in the afternoon of November 26 last, ascertained by the foot prints of the animal, the source added.
http://www.resourceshimal...an_injures_elephant.html
These incident were taken from
bb2.atbb.jp/rodem/viewtopic.php?p=963&sid=c2483855fe84766411411b8d98311ec4
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Tiger kills Tusker ElephantFirst Published : 22 Sep 2009 11:55:00 In a rare incident recently a tiger is reported to have killed a tusker in the Eravikulam National Park near Munnar, intriguing forest officials and wildlife enthusiasts alike. For tigers have never been known to attack elephants - let alone kill them - being physically no match for the pachyderms. Perhaps, this was a territorial feud - common in the wilds - and the tusker presumably was ailing and weak. Yet it's hard to imagine a tiger taking on an elephant and besting it.
www.expressbuzz.com/
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Tiger Injures female elephant and kills Calf Dehradun, Jan 21,2010 (PTI) A tiger killed a seven-month-old elephant calf at Dhikala range of Corbett Tiger Reserve, officials said today. The incident took place yesterday when the calf was roaming around with his mother and suddenly attacked by the wild cat, they said. The female elephant was also injured in the attack when she tried to save the calf. The elephant and her calf were apparently got separated from their herd when the incident occurred, they said.
www.ptinews.com/ne...iger-kills-elephant-calf
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Kaziranga tiger attack bull elephant Foresters await nod to sedate herd - Jumbos camping in swamp A STAFF REPORTER On the rampage Guwahati, Dec. 25,2009: The forest department is contemplating the difficult task of tranquillising a herd of rampaging elephants after an attempt to chase it away from human habitat failed. The herd has damaged hundreds of acres of paddy land in the villages along the banks of the Brahmaputra. A recent drive to chase it away had to be shelved after a school student was hit by a stray bullet allegedly fired by forest guards. "We have written to the headquarters that the only option left is to tranquillise the elephants one by one and shift them to either Kaziranga National Park or Dibru-Saikhowa National Park," the assistant conservator of forest, Jorhat division, Gunin Saikia, told this correspondent today. Though it would be a Herculean task, it was the only option left with the forest department, he said. "We have tried whatever is possible but failed; now the only option left with us is tranquillisation," Saikia said. The herd is now taking shelter in a swampy area full of elephant grass at Borkhelia under Teok police station in Jorhat district. The herd of about 70 elephants takes shelter at the swamp during daytime and attacks human settlements as soon as night falls. The Jorhat district administration has also started a project to build trenches around human settlements to keep the elephants away. Saikia said the herd's present location was ideal for carrying out a tranquillising drive and shift the elephants to Kaziranga and Saikhowa. Kaziranga to the west and Saikhowa to its east are less than 150km from Jorhat town. Recently, the Jorhat forest department has set up a special task force, comprising homeguards and local youths, to chase away the elephants but the attempt failed to yield results. "The elephants get scattered into small groups as soon as we launch the attack. It is almost impossible to chase them away," Saikia said. Last night, a Royal Bengal
http://www.telegraphindia...heast/story_11908740.jsp
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Elephant attacked and seriously injured by tiger STAFF WRITER 18:14 HRS IST Golaghat, Aug 14, 2009 (PTI) An elephant was attacked and seriously injured by a tiger in world-famous Kaziranga National Park (KNP), forest officials said today. The six-year-old female elephant was attacked by a tiger in the northern part of the Park and its hind legs were injured last night, KNP director S N Buragohain told PTI. The elephant, which had its ears torn apart in the incident, was being treated at the camp office of the Park where her condition was stated to be stable, he said. Buragohain said a new range situated to the North of the River Brahmaputra has been added into the park, increasing its total area to 859 sq km from 430 sq km earlier. Besides the newly added Northern range, the park earlier was divided into four range - Kohora, Bagori, Burapahar and Agaratoli -, Buragohain said.
http://bigcatnews.blogspo...nd-injured-by-tiger.html
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Treating an elephant that a tiger had attacked
go for the link and scroll down
www.corkscrew-balloon.com/polo/95/
Of all the land carnivores, the tiger is the only species that has been known to charge and take down a full-grown male elephant, one-on-one. The killing of the elephant was called "Death by a Thousand Claws" by Colonel Kesri Singh. The killing happened for centuries in Asia, especially in Indochina, where elephants used to be utilized in military as weapons. Minor ethnic tribes, who are specialized in capturing and training elephants, have the traditions of testing captured male elephants by pressing one against a tiger. If an elephant survives the fight, it is considered ideal for battles. Today, however, due to the depletion of both species, these extraordinary confrontations become exceedingly rare and are hardly ever witnessed by humans in the wild (nor, hopefully, in captivity).
encycl.opentopia.com/term/Tiger
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Though other jungle inhabitants seldom interfere with an elephant, a hungry tiger will not hesitate to attack a solitary animal. The tiger will never let go an opportunity to prey upon calves and juveniles. J.C. Daniel in his book, The Asian Elephant, gives a number of recorded instances of tiger predating even upon full-grown elephants. Col Kesri Singh, in his book: The Tiger Of Rajasthan, has given an instance of a fight between a tiger and a big tusker in Assam. "...Some three or four years ago a tiger, having killed a baby elephant, was attacked by a tusker. Instead of trying to get clean away the tiger came at the elephant from the flank or rear, and having got on to his back raked and tore at him with his claws. The fight went on for a long time, the tusker apparently trying to dislodge the tiger by running under and against trees. He seems to have succeeded in this at least once, but only for the tiger to recover and return to the attack...In the morning the area was examined and the story reconstructed from the copious signs left about the area. The aggressor had had the best of it, for the party found the remains of the elephant calf and the dead tuskers huge bulk, atrociously torn, but the tiger had disappeared."
"Death by a Thousand Cuts".
Himalaya - India
Tiger kills man, injures elephant
Dalgaon, Nov 29, 2006. A Royal Bengal tiger which sneaked from the Orang National Park on the night of November 24 last and later killed one Niranjan Das (50) of village Nichilamari under Borchala police outpost also attacked a trained elephant of the Park. Briefing this, DFO, Wildlife informed that the elephant named "Indra" who was engaged alongwith three other domestic elephants of the Park to force the tiger back to the forest area, was seriously injured by the 'man-eater'. The team of forest guards and elephants were compelled to retreat after the severe attack. Tranquiliser specialists also failed to bring the man-eater under control. But to the utter relief of the Park authority and the villagers, the 'man-eater' returned to the Park in the afternoon of November 26 last, ascertained by the foot prints of the animal, the source added.
www.resourceshimalaya.org/contemporary_issues/india/tiger_kills_man_injures_elephant.htm
Frank Leslie's popular monthly, Volume 45, 1879,
edited by Frank Leslie, New York: Frank Leslie's Publishing House.
53, 55, & 57 Park Place. p. 411
Elephants are very fearful of tigers, and always show more or less alarm when in their vicinity. I have known many an elephant to turn tail and run away when near the tiger's lair, and sometimes all the efforts of the mahout failed to check them. Not infrequently they run under the limbs of trees in their flight, and the howdah and its occupants
are brushed off. Major R , of Lucknow, was killed in this way during a tiger-hunt in the Pumeah district. A tiger charged his elephant, and the latter ran away. As it passed under a tree the howdah was swept off, and the major and his servant were both killed by the fall.
When in the neighborhood of a tiger the elephant generally holds his trunk high in the air, as it is his most vulnerable point, and he is anxious to protect it from injury. In a fight with a tiger the elephant uses his trunk very little, through fear of injury, but endeavors to trample his enemy under foot or pierce him with his tusks. Once let an elephant get his heavy foot fairly on a tiger, and the fight is soon over; it is all up with the yellow-coated thief -or, rather, it is all down with him. But in the majority of fights between them, the tiger generally gets the best of it, or would do so, if man did not come to the elephant's aid. In one of our hunts in the northeast we had one elephant killed by a tiger-or, rather, he was so badly hurt that he died the next day-and another very severely wounded. Even the elephant's thick hide cannot resist the tiger's claws; and as for his teeth, they have been known to make an impression on a plate of iron.
Tiger attacks bull elephant kaziranga park. Read all about it.
www.telegraphindia.com/1091226/jsp/northeast/story_11908740.jsp
Kaziranga tiger attack bull elephant
Foresters await nod to sedate herd
- Jumbos camping in swamp
A STAFF REPORTER
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On the rampage
Guwahati, Dec. 25,2009: The forest department is contemplating the difficult task of tranquillising a herd of rampaging elephants after an attempt to chase it away from human habitat failed.
The herd has damaged hundreds of acres of paddy land in the villages along the banks of the Brahmaputra.
A recent drive to chase it away had to be shelved after a school student was hit by a stray bullet allegedly fired by forest guards.
"We have written to the headquarters that the only option left is to tranquillise the elephants one by one and shift them to either Kaziranga National Park or Dibru-Saikhowa National Park," the assistant conservator of forest, Jorhat division, Gunin Saikia, told this correspondent today.
Though it would be a Herculean task, it was the only option left with the forest department, he said.
"We have tried whatever is possible but failed; now the only option left with us is tranquillisation," Saikia said.
The herd is now taking shelter in a swampy area full of elephant grass at Borkhelia under Teok police station in Jorhat district.
The herd of about 70 elephants takes shelter at the swamp during daytime and attacks human settlements as soon as night falls.
The Jorhat district administration has also started a project to build trenches around human settlements to keep the elephants away.
Saikia said the herd's present location was ideal for carrying out a tranquillising drive and shift the elephants to Kaziranga and Saikhowa.
Kaziranga to the west and Saikhowa to its east are less than 150km from Jorhat town.
Recently, the Jorhat forest department has set up a special task force, comprising homeguards and local youths, to chase away the elephants but the attempt failed to yield results.
"The elephants get scattered into small groups as soon as we launch the attack. It is almost impossible to chase them away," Saikia said.
Last night, a Royal Bengal tiger that sneaked into the swamp a couple of days back, attacked a bull elephant after killing a buffalo.
Villagers spotted the critically injured elephant this morning and informed the forest department, another forest official said.
"The tiger that killed two persons in Lakhimpur district a fortnight back, has crossed the Brahmaputra and is taking shelter in the swamp with the elephants."
Here is accounts of the tiger preying on Rhino
Female rhino killed by tiger in Kaziranga
Saturday, January 02, 2010 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.
www.ptinews.com/maintenance.htm?aspxerrorpath=/news/fullnews.aspx
bigcatnews.blogspot.in/2010/01/female-rhino-killed-by-tiger-in.html
Adult Rhino Killed by Tigers in Kaziranga National Park
"Tigers claim as many as 15 percent of the rhino calves in Kaziranga. This carcass spoke of tigers taking down an adult - a risky enterprise rarely reported" - National Geographic Magazine, Aug-2010.
Trouble for rhino from poacher and Bengal tiger
The rhino is being hounded by predators, and not only of the two-legged kind.
Royal Bengal tigers, which usually prey on baby rhinos, have begun killing adult ones in Kaziranga National Park since the last fortnight.
Alarmed by this development, a team of experts from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, will arrive at the national park tomorrow on a weeklong visit to survey the “phenomenon”.
Authorities at Kaziranga National Park have also informed the chief conservator of forests of the new trend. Tigers killed 20 rhinos at Kaziranga last year, while this year eight rhinos have fallen prey to the big cats.
“The worrying part is that tigers have started killing full grown rhinos. Earlier it was only the calves the tigers used to attack but now the full grown rhinos are being targeted,” said Bankim Sharma, the divisional forest official of the park.
Last evening, three tigers, probably a mother and her two grown calves, attacked an adult rhino near the East Haldhibari anti-poaching camp in the Kohora range of the park. “It must have taken several hours for the tigers to nail the rhino. The entire area looked like a war zone with crushed grass and plants. The rhino had probably given up when it got stuck in the mud in a nearby water body,” the forest official said.
Forest officials later retrieved the rhino’s horn.
On February 26, a pregnant rhino was killed by tigers at Rutikhowa beel under Bagori range. Gunin Saikia, another forest at Kaziranga, said there have been no instances of tigers attacking full grown rhinos till now. Saikia said female rhinos generally venture out of the park along with their calves at night to escape from tiger attacks, since rhino calves are easy prey for tigers. “But tigers always keep away from full grown rhinos,” he said.
The divisional forest official said male rhinos usually stay alone and tigers are finding it easier to prey on them than buffaloes, which stay in large groups.
There has been an increase in tiger population in the park, which could be another reason for the attacks on rhinos, he said.
According to the last census conducted in 2000, 86 rhinos were found in Kaziranga. “There is no doubt that the figure has gone up since then,” the divisional forest official said.
www.telegraphindia.com/1080313/jsp/northeast/story_9012303.jsp
Female rhino killed by tiger in Kaziranga
Saturday, January 02, 2010 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.
www.ptinews.com/maintenance.htm?aspxerrorpath=/news/fullnews.aspx
bigcatnews.blogspot.in/2010/01/female-rhino-killed-by-tiger-in.html
the list can go on and on............
Trust me, there is no predator even close to the Tiger when it comes to taking down larger prey. The Polar bear is definitely up there, but the bear gets up to 2k lbs compared to 300kg or so for the Tiger.
And once again, Eagles fly!
Sorry pal, but that is a huge difference, being able to swoop down without being seen, come on now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_ZEuxjTv0
Raja clamps down at 1:02 the gaur is dead at 4:10 seconds. That is 3 minutes to kill a 400lb animal.
Here is a list of tigers preying on gaur, elephants, rhinos etc.
These are some of the Tiger and elephant interactions I posted before on the other forum (dunno whether all this are posted here before), thought of sharing it here.
Tigers usually go for elephant calves, young and juvenile elephants. But they do hunt full grown elephants once in a while, but its a rare incident. Tigers also charge at full grown elephants and stand there ground against the elephants (not always but they do it).
1) I think many would have seen and read this first incident.
"Though other jungle inhabitants seldom interfere with an elephant, a hungry tiger will not hesitate to attack a solitary animal. The tiger will never let go an opportunity to prey upon calves and juveniles. J.C. Daniel in his book, The Asian Elephant, gives a number of recorded instances of tiger predating even upon full-grown elephants. Col Kesri Singh, in his book: The Tiger Of Rajasthan, has given an instance of a fight between a tiger and a big tusker in Assam. "...Some three or four years ago a tiger, having killed a baby elephant, was attacked by a tusker. Instead of trying to get clean away the tiger came at the elephant from the flank or rear, and having got on to his back raked and tore at him with his claws. The fight went on for a long time, the tusker apparently trying to dislodge the tiger by running under and against trees. He seems to have succeeded in this at least once, but only for the tiger to recover and return to the attack...In the morning the area was examined and the story reconstructed from the copious signs left about the area. The aggressor had had the best of it, for the party found the remains of the elephant calf and the dead tuskers huge bulk, atrociously torn, but the tiger had disappeared."
"Death by a Thousand Cuts".
2)
An elephant is suspected to have died of wounds inflicted by the same tigress that attacked a man at the Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal. Park officials confirmed that the pachyderm, which was found dead Friday night, had fought with the tigress that had mauled a man at the Dhikala tourist complex on the previous night. According to a park official, "The elephant had been spotted with wounds, visibly inflicted by a tiger about five or six days back. "We were keeping track of the animal. Finally we found him lying dead in the forest quite close to the Dhikala complex." The elephant was found to have suffered multiple wounds on its trunk and it was amply evident that these were sustained in a battle with the tigress, which is suspected to have also suffered wounds. The tigress had been spotted with two cubs. These cubs are believed to have been with the mother during the fight with the elephant. Park officials were of the view that the elephant was unable to eat on account of the wounds on its trunk and therefore turned quite weak. Asked why officials did not tranquillise the elephant to treat its wounds, Uttaranchal chief wildlife warden C.K. Chandola told IANS: "It is usually preferred that animals living in their natural habitat find their own natural means to heal themselves. "No one thought that the wounds would prove fatal," he said. "Special teams had been detailed to keep track of the movements of the tigress to assess the nature and kind of wounds it had received in the fight with the elephant." While there is no evidence of the big cat turning into a man-eater, Chandola did not rule out the possibility. "Irreparable wounds or old age and infirmity can force a tiger to turn to man-eating. We have to keep a strict vigil."
citynewslive.com/fullstory2k5-insight-news-status-29-newsID-6008.html
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A 20-year-old female elephant has been killed by a tiger in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), a forest official said.
The half-eaten body of the pachyderm was found by a forest patrolling team on Friday morning, Uttarakhand Chief Wildlife Warden Srikant Chandola said.
‘Rare incident'
“The killing of elephant calves by a tiger is a common incident in jungles, but this is a very rare incident when the tiger has attacked and killed an adolescent elephant,” he added.
www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article1134163.ece
4)
It was a fight that even surprised the Forest officials of Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR). A duel between a tiger and an elephant in which the big cat prevailed. The tiger reserve rarely has witnessed such incidents in the past although tigers are known to kill elephant calves. Every year, two or three calves are hunted by the tigers in the reserve.
www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=1613
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Riding on elephants, eight tourists from West Bengal had their wish fulfilled on Monday when they spotted a tiger from close quarters in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. But the thrill of watching a big cat soon turned out to be their worst nightmare when a tigress and her cubs pounced on the jumbos they were riding. Luckily, nobody was injured in the incident because of quick work by the mahouts who steered the gentle giants and the tourists out of danger. It was all going fine for the guests who were enjoying a ride in the Bagori range of the park on Manimala and Lakhimai two elephants of the forest department till 6.35 am when all of a sudden a tigeress and its two cubs pounced on the jumbos from behind a bush. Fortunately, the mahouts reacted on time and steered the elephants out of danger. Dipak Das, the owner of the elephants, said, "Like other days, we had started our second trip of private elephant safari in the Bagori range at 6.15 am. We had altogether seven elephants in the trip and there were four persons on each jumbo. On seeing the pachyderms, the tiger tried to attack them. However, the elephants managed to escape because of the mahouts' presence of mind. The two jumbos and all the tourists are unhurt." This is the first such incident in Kaziranga this year.
http://articles.timesofin...nga-national-park-jumbos
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Tiger kills man, injures elephant Dalgaon, Nov 29, 2006. A Royal Bengal tiger which sneaked from the Orang National Park on the night of November 24 last and later killed one Niranjan Das (50) of village Nichilamari under Borchala police outpost also attacked a trained elephant of the Park. Briefing this, DFO, Wildlife informed that the elephant named "Indra" who was engaged alongwith three other domestic elephants of the Park to force the tiger back to the forest area, was seriously injured by the 'man-eater'. The team of forest guards and elephants were compelled to retreat after the severe attack. Tranquiliser specialists also failed to bring the man-eater under control. But to the utter relief of the Park authority and the villagers, the 'man-eater' returned to the Park in the afternoon of November 26 last, ascertained by the foot prints of the animal, the source added.
http://www.resourceshimal...an_injures_elephant.html
These incident were taken from
bb2.atbb.jp/rodem/viewtopic.php?p=963&sid=c2483855fe84766411411b8d98311ec4
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Tiger kills Tusker ElephantFirst Published : 22 Sep 2009 11:55:00 In a rare incident recently a tiger is reported to have killed a tusker in the Eravikulam National Park near Munnar, intriguing forest officials and wildlife enthusiasts alike. For tigers have never been known to attack elephants - let alone kill them - being physically no match for the pachyderms. Perhaps, this was a territorial feud - common in the wilds - and the tusker presumably was ailing and weak. Yet it's hard to imagine a tiger taking on an elephant and besting it.
www.expressbuzz.com/
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Tiger Injures female elephant and kills Calf Dehradun, Jan 21,2010 (PTI) A tiger killed a seven-month-old elephant calf at Dhikala range of Corbett Tiger Reserve, officials said today. The incident took place yesterday when the calf was roaming around with his mother and suddenly attacked by the wild cat, they said. The female elephant was also injured in the attack when she tried to save the calf. The elephant and her calf were apparently got separated from their herd when the incident occurred, they said.
www.ptinews.com/ne...iger-kills-elephant-calf
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Kaziranga tiger attack bull elephant Foresters await nod to sedate herd - Jumbos camping in swamp A STAFF REPORTER On the rampage Guwahati, Dec. 25,2009: The forest department is contemplating the difficult task of tranquillising a herd of rampaging elephants after an attempt to chase it away from human habitat failed. The herd has damaged hundreds of acres of paddy land in the villages along the banks of the Brahmaputra. A recent drive to chase it away had to be shelved after a school student was hit by a stray bullet allegedly fired by forest guards. "We have written to the headquarters that the only option left is to tranquillise the elephants one by one and shift them to either Kaziranga National Park or Dibru-Saikhowa National Park," the assistant conservator of forest, Jorhat division, Gunin Saikia, told this correspondent today. Though it would be a Herculean task, it was the only option left with the forest department, he said. "We have tried whatever is possible but failed; now the only option left with us is tranquillisation," Saikia said. The herd is now taking shelter in a swampy area full of elephant grass at Borkhelia under Teok police station in Jorhat district. The herd of about 70 elephants takes shelter at the swamp during daytime and attacks human settlements as soon as night falls. The Jorhat district administration has also started a project to build trenches around human settlements to keep the elephants away. Saikia said the herd's present location was ideal for carrying out a tranquillising drive and shift the elephants to Kaziranga and Saikhowa. Kaziranga to the west and Saikhowa to its east are less than 150km from Jorhat town. Recently, the Jorhat forest department has set up a special task force, comprising homeguards and local youths, to chase away the elephants but the attempt failed to yield results. "The elephants get scattered into small groups as soon as we launch the attack. It is almost impossible to chase them away," Saikia said. Last night, a Royal Bengal
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Elephant attacked and seriously injured by tiger STAFF WRITER 18:14 HRS IST Golaghat, Aug 14, 2009 (PTI) An elephant was attacked and seriously injured by a tiger in world-famous Kaziranga National Park (KNP), forest officials said today. The six-year-old female elephant was attacked by a tiger in the northern part of the Park and its hind legs were injured last night, KNP director S N Buragohain told PTI. The elephant, which had its ears torn apart in the incident, was being treated at the camp office of the Park where her condition was stated to be stable, he said. Buragohain said a new range situated to the North of the River Brahmaputra has been added into the park, increasing its total area to 859 sq km from 430 sq km earlier. Besides the newly added Northern range, the park earlier was divided into four range - Kohora, Bagori, Burapahar and Agaratoli -, Buragohain said.
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Treating an elephant that a tiger had attacked
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Of all the land carnivores, the tiger is the only species that has been known to charge and take down a full-grown male elephant, one-on-one. The killing of the elephant was called "Death by a Thousand Claws" by Colonel Kesri Singh. The killing happened for centuries in Asia, especially in Indochina, where elephants used to be utilized in military as weapons. Minor ethnic tribes, who are specialized in capturing and training elephants, have the traditions of testing captured male elephants by pressing one against a tiger. If an elephant survives the fight, it is considered ideal for battles. Today, however, due to the depletion of both species, these extraordinary confrontations become exceedingly rare and are hardly ever witnessed by humans in the wild (nor, hopefully, in captivity).
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Though other jungle inhabitants seldom interfere with an elephant, a hungry tiger will not hesitate to attack a solitary animal. The tiger will never let go an opportunity to prey upon calves and juveniles. J.C. Daniel in his book, The Asian Elephant, gives a number of recorded instances of tiger predating even upon full-grown elephants. Col Kesri Singh, in his book: The Tiger Of Rajasthan, has given an instance of a fight between a tiger and a big tusker in Assam. "...Some three or four years ago a tiger, having killed a baby elephant, was attacked by a tusker. Instead of trying to get clean away the tiger came at the elephant from the flank or rear, and having got on to his back raked and tore at him with his claws. The fight went on for a long time, the tusker apparently trying to dislodge the tiger by running under and against trees. He seems to have succeeded in this at least once, but only for the tiger to recover and return to the attack...In the morning the area was examined and the story reconstructed from the copious signs left about the area. The aggressor had had the best of it, for the party found the remains of the elephant calf and the dead tuskers huge bulk, atrociously torn, but the tiger had disappeared."
"Death by a Thousand Cuts".
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Tiger kills man, injures elephant
Dalgaon, Nov 29, 2006. A Royal Bengal tiger which sneaked from the Orang National Park on the night of November 24 last and later killed one Niranjan Das (50) of village Nichilamari under Borchala police outpost also attacked a trained elephant of the Park. Briefing this, DFO, Wildlife informed that the elephant named "Indra" who was engaged alongwith three other domestic elephants of the Park to force the tiger back to the forest area, was seriously injured by the 'man-eater'. The team of forest guards and elephants were compelled to retreat after the severe attack. Tranquiliser specialists also failed to bring the man-eater under control. But to the utter relief of the Park authority and the villagers, the 'man-eater' returned to the Park in the afternoon of November 26 last, ascertained by the foot prints of the animal, the source added.
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Frank Leslie's popular monthly, Volume 45, 1879,
edited by Frank Leslie, New York: Frank Leslie's Publishing House.
53, 55, & 57 Park Place. p. 411
Elephants are very fearful of tigers, and always show more or less alarm when in their vicinity. I have known many an elephant to turn tail and run away when near the tiger's lair, and sometimes all the efforts of the mahout failed to check them. Not infrequently they run under the limbs of trees in their flight, and the howdah and its occupants
are brushed off. Major R , of Lucknow, was killed in this way during a tiger-hunt in the Pumeah district. A tiger charged his elephant, and the latter ran away. As it passed under a tree the howdah was swept off, and the major and his servant were both killed by the fall.
When in the neighborhood of a tiger the elephant generally holds his trunk high in the air, as it is his most vulnerable point, and he is anxious to protect it from injury. In a fight with a tiger the elephant uses his trunk very little, through fear of injury, but endeavors to trample his enemy under foot or pierce him with his tusks. Once let an elephant get his heavy foot fairly on a tiger, and the fight is soon over; it is all up with the yellow-coated thief -or, rather, it is all down with him. But in the majority of fights between them, the tiger generally gets the best of it, or would do so, if man did not come to the elephant's aid. In one of our hunts in the northeast we had one elephant killed by a tiger-or, rather, he was so badly hurt that he died the next day-and another very severely wounded. Even the elephant's thick hide cannot resist the tiger's claws; and as for his teeth, they have been known to make an impression on a plate of iron.
Tiger attacks bull elephant kaziranga park. Read all about it.
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Kaziranga tiger attack bull elephant
Foresters await nod to sedate herd
- Jumbos camping in swamp
A STAFF REPORTER
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On the rampage
Guwahati, Dec. 25,2009: The forest department is contemplating the difficult task of tranquillising a herd of rampaging elephants after an attempt to chase it away from human habitat failed.
The herd has damaged hundreds of acres of paddy land in the villages along the banks of the Brahmaputra.
A recent drive to chase it away had to be shelved after a school student was hit by a stray bullet allegedly fired by forest guards.
"We have written to the headquarters that the only option left is to tranquillise the elephants one by one and shift them to either Kaziranga National Park or Dibru-Saikhowa National Park," the assistant conservator of forest, Jorhat division, Gunin Saikia, told this correspondent today.
Though it would be a Herculean task, it was the only option left with the forest department, he said.
"We have tried whatever is possible but failed; now the only option left with us is tranquillisation," Saikia said.
The herd is now taking shelter in a swampy area full of elephant grass at Borkhelia under Teok police station in Jorhat district.
The herd of about 70 elephants takes shelter at the swamp during daytime and attacks human settlements as soon as night falls.
The Jorhat district administration has also started a project to build trenches around human settlements to keep the elephants away.
Saikia said the herd's present location was ideal for carrying out a tranquillising drive and shift the elephants to Kaziranga and Saikhowa.
Kaziranga to the west and Saikhowa to its east are less than 150km from Jorhat town.
Recently, the Jorhat forest department has set up a special task force, comprising homeguards and local youths, to chase away the elephants but the attempt failed to yield results.
"The elephants get scattered into small groups as soon as we launch the attack. It is almost impossible to chase them away," Saikia said.
Last night, a Royal Bengal tiger that sneaked into the swamp a couple of days back, attacked a bull elephant after killing a buffalo.
Villagers spotted the critically injured elephant this morning and informed the forest department, another forest official said.
"The tiger that killed two persons in Lakhimpur district a fortnight back, has crossed the Brahmaputra and is taking shelter in the swamp with the elephants."
Here is accounts of the tiger preying on Rhino
Female rhino killed by tiger in Kaziranga
Saturday, January 02, 2010 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.
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Adult Rhino Killed by Tigers in Kaziranga National Park
"Tigers claim as many as 15 percent of the rhino calves in Kaziranga. This carcass spoke of tigers taking down an adult - a risky enterprise rarely reported" - National Geographic Magazine, Aug-2010.
Trouble for rhino from poacher and Bengal tiger
The rhino is being hounded by predators, and not only of the two-legged kind.
Royal Bengal tigers, which usually prey on baby rhinos, have begun killing adult ones in Kaziranga National Park since the last fortnight.
Alarmed by this development, a team of experts from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, will arrive at the national park tomorrow on a weeklong visit to survey the “phenomenon”.
Authorities at Kaziranga National Park have also informed the chief conservator of forests of the new trend. Tigers killed 20 rhinos at Kaziranga last year, while this year eight rhinos have fallen prey to the big cats.
“The worrying part is that tigers have started killing full grown rhinos. Earlier it was only the calves the tigers used to attack but now the full grown rhinos are being targeted,” said Bankim Sharma, the divisional forest official of the park.
Last evening, three tigers, probably a mother and her two grown calves, attacked an adult rhino near the East Haldhibari anti-poaching camp in the Kohora range of the park. “It must have taken several hours for the tigers to nail the rhino. The entire area looked like a war zone with crushed grass and plants. The rhino had probably given up when it got stuck in the mud in a nearby water body,” the forest official said.
Forest officials later retrieved the rhino’s horn.
On February 26, a pregnant rhino was killed by tigers at Rutikhowa beel under Bagori range. Gunin Saikia, another forest at Kaziranga, said there have been no instances of tigers attacking full grown rhinos till now. Saikia said female rhinos generally venture out of the park along with their calves at night to escape from tiger attacks, since rhino calves are easy prey for tigers. “But tigers always keep away from full grown rhinos,” he said.
The divisional forest official said male rhinos usually stay alone and tigers are finding it easier to prey on them than buffaloes, which stay in large groups.
There has been an increase in tiger population in the park, which could be another reason for the attacks on rhinos, he said.
According to the last census conducted in 2000, 86 rhinos were found in Kaziranga. “There is no doubt that the figure has gone up since then,” the divisional forest official said.
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Female rhino killed by tiger in Kaziranga
Saturday, January 02, 2010 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.
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the list can go on and on............
Trust me, there is no predator even close to the Tiger when it comes to taking down larger prey. The Polar bear is definitely up there, but the bear gets up to 2k lbs compared to 300kg or so for the Tiger.
