A Tiger Can't Kill a Healthy Adult Rhino - ARGUMENT DEBUNKED!!!

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A TIGER TO KILL A HEALTHY ADULT MALE INDIAN RHINO WEIGHING 2200 KILOGRAMS OR 4850 POUNDS ON ITS OWN! BUT IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE FOR A TIGER WEIGHING 250 KG OR 550 LBS TO KILL A HEALTHY ADULT FEMALE WEIGHING 1250 KG OR 2755 LBS!
According to specialists, the Tiger is the terrestrial carnivore that can shoot down the biggest prey on its own: brown bears, crocodiles, rhinos and even healthy adult elephants. In this episode we bring the evidence for rhinos, the evidence for the other animals mentioned will follow. Subscribe so you don't miss any!
Hello friends! We talked a lot about the tiger on this channel. I have never hidden from you that I especially admire this animal and that I consider it the most efficient and powerful terrestrial carnivore. As I have said in other episodes, I believe that there is enough evidence that the tiger sometimes manages to successfully hunt bears, crocodiles, rhinos and even healthy adult elephants. Of course, these are exceptional cases and not all tigers are capable of such performance, but there is still enough evidence that such cases exist. Because there are still a lot of people who accused me of lying when I made such statements, I gathered some accounts that I considered conclusive to support my point of view. In this episode we will talk about the Bengal tiger and the Indian rhino, but there will be other episodes in which we will also talk about other impressive preys that the tiger can kill on its own. So here's the evidences.
A day after the half-eaten carcass of a 34-year-old female rhinoceros named Pavitri was recovered from the Rhino Rehabilitation Area in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) at Dudhwa National Park (DNP) in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh following her killing by a big cat, wildlife officials are perplexed at the tigers developing a liking for the one-horned animal despite the presence of ample prey base in the forest. The late Monday night killing is the third instance of a rhino being killed by the roaming big cats in the last 14 months since the killing of a 35-year old male rhino in November 2011 followed by that of a young adult in December 2011. A female rhino named Himrani was attacked and injured by a tiger on December 1, 2011 but managed to survive due to the efforts of the park authorities. In December last year another female rhino was mauled by a tiger in the rehabilitation area, but survived the deadly attack. While the exact causes of the frequent attacks by the feline are yet to be ascertained, Deputy Director of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Ganesh Bhatt said that it is not an unnatural phenomena as similar attacks have taken place in Kaziranga national park in Assam. “Calves and sub-adults and those rhinos who are weak are generally attacked by tigers, as had been the case with the adult female rhinoceros, Himrani, who too was weak,” Mr. Bhatt told The Hindu from DTR. However, the Dudhwa official clarified that the latest casualty, Pavitri was not weak bodied.
This article is very relevant primarily because it reports on several cases in which adult rhinos (both male and female) were killed by tigers, but also because it specifies very clearly that the last female killed, aged 34 years, had no health problems and was in full force. For those who want to read the full article, I put the link in the description of the video.
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Sources:
Killing of rhino by tiger worries Dudhwa wildlife officials (Written by Atiq Khan; January 31, 2013): https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...
Royal Bengal Tiger, Rhinoceros found dead in Kaziranga (Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap; November 8, 2017): https://indianexpress.com/article/ind...
https://www.kaziranga-national-park.com/ (09 Nov, 2017): https://www.kaziranga-national-park.c...
Trouble for rhino from poacher and Bengal tiger ( by BCR; March 2, 2014 in News World): https://bigcatrescue.org/trouble-for-...
Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids published in 2010 at Oxford University Press: https://books.google.co.uk/books?dq=t...
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