1.) (Karanth (1993) examined 181 tiger kills and found that most large prey, such as sambar and gaur, were killed by throat bites.
The prey is then usually dragged into cover, tigers displaying their great strength in dragging, even lifting, heavy carcasses. Pocock (1939) cites an instance in Burma of a tiger dragging the carcass of a gaur that 13 men could not move.
Even female tigers, which are considerably smaller than male tigers, are capable of taking down and killing adult gaurs by themselves.)
2.) http://www.ecology.info/tiger-leopard.htm
(Tigers prefer large prey such as sambar and gaur because they provide more meat and last for many days, avoiding the need for another hunt. )
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"male tigers would prefer a bigger prey like a buffalo or gaur if possible compared to a deer, in Nagarahole where the Gaur population is stable, tigers frequently hunt them. "(図)
4.) (We conducted a field study of diets of three sympatric large carnivores, the tiger Panthera tigris, the leopard Panthera pardus and the dhole Cuon alpinus in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, India, based on analyses of 381, 111 and 181 scats, respectively.
Although the dietary niche overlap among the three species was high (Pianka's index of 0.75・.93), some specialized predation was observed. The largest ungulates, gaur Bos gaurus and sambar Cervus unicolor, provided 73% of biomass consumed by tigers,)
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