The tiger and lion are representatives of the big cats and are the top predators on land, but few people know exactly what their kill limit is.

The main prey of tigers and lions are herbivorous animals, with three classes: Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla and Sirenia, among which Artiodactyla accounts for 90% of the existing herbivorous animals, and even Cetaceans belong to Artiodactyla

Long-nosed animals have only three families existing now, namely elephants, African elephants, Asian elephants and African forest elephantsOdd-toed ungulates were once dominant, but now only three families exist, rhinoceroses, horses and tapirs, with a total of 17 speciesThese herbivorous animals are the main prey of tigers and lions, temporarily referring to exceeding 1 ton as giant animals, this article will simply list the hunt records of these giant animals by tigers

First, tigers

In modern times, tigers were distributed in East, Southeast, Southern and Central Asia. In the past hundred years, the habitat of tigers has been severely compressed, and the number of wild tigers has decreased by more than 95%, and three subspecies have been extinct. However, in these hundred years, people began to study tigers, and gained a deeper understanding of their ecological status and ecological behavior

The current number of wild tigers is mainly distributed in three areas, one in the east of Asia, one in the south of Asia and Himalayas, and the last one in Southeast Asia. Large herbivorous animals coexist with tigers, such as Asian elephants, Indian rhinoceroses, Asian wild water buffaloes, white-lipped wild cattle, wild boars and deer

The Northeast Tigers have few large herbivores in their living area, and the Northeast Tigers have hunted 418 kg of domestic cattle and 450 kg of domestic water buffaloes, but this cannot reflect the hunting limit of Northeast Tigers

The Bengal tigers' giant beasts are many, the Bengal tigers also achieved the highest hunting records of tigers

Jim Corbett (Jim Corbett Tiger Conservation Park is named after him) reported in 1953 that two tigers, a male and a female, cooperated to hunt a large-toothed male elephant, which was called 'Double Tigers Killing Large-toothed Elephant' and was recorded in many materials, including the 'Wild Cats' written by the Cat Specialist Group of the World Wildlife Fund

In December 2009, about 70 Asian elephants in India broke into farmland and the forest department drove the elephant herd into the swamp. At night, a Bengal tiger sneaked into the swamp and killed a wild ox after attacking a big elephant. Villagers discovered the injured elephant the next morning, and the forest department identified it as being attacked by a Bengal tiger

In 2011, in the Corbett National Park, a Bengal tiger killed a 20-year-old female elephant, in 2013, a Bengal tiger hunted a 7-year-old young male elephant, this elephant had already grown long teeth, according to the growth curve of Asian elephants, 7-year-old male elephant with a height of 1.7-1.9 meters and a weight of 1.3-1.5 tons

In 2014-2019, the official reports of Corbett National Park showed that Bengal tigers killed 13 elephants in this period, most of which were young elephants

In 2014, there was a male tiger named Knowar in Kaziranga National Park who was killed by a family of tigers consisting of four people, including a male, a female and two cubs, who killed a 20-year-old male elephant, and this male tiger killed 5 elephants in total

Regarding the hunting of rhinos by Bengal tigers, it is inseparable from kzt085

In 2017, it killed a 20-year-old female rhino and two-and-a-half-year-old male tiger, it seemed that the Bengal tiger and rhino met their ends, but the two-and-a-half-year-old male tiger did not have the ability to kill adult rhinos, which was later confirmed by kzt085. The adult female Indian rhino is about 1.6 tons on average, and the 20-year-old female rhino is about 2 tons

The hunting of rhinos by Bengal tigers has many cases, let's simply list these herbivorous giant animals hunted by tigers

African elephants, male average 3.8-4.7 tons, female average 2.3-2.5 tons

Asian elephants, male average 3.6-3.7 tons, female average 2.5-2.6 tons

White rhinoceroses and Indian rhinoceroses have similar body shapes, with males averaging 1.8-2.2 tons and females averaging 1.6 tonsLong-necked animals, male average 1.1 tons, female average 0.8 tons. The sample is small and the selection is older individuals, which can be considered as approaching the average weight

Black rhinoceroses, male average 1 ton, female average 0.8 tons

White-lipped wild cattle, male average 0.8 tons, female average 0.57 tons. The sample is too small and the measured records are few, leading to the value being inflated

The hunting of herbivorous giant animals by lions

African elephants, male average 3.8-4.7 tons, female average 2.3-2.5 tonsAsian elephants, male average 3.6-3.7 tons, female average 2.5-2.6 tonsWhite rhinoceroses and Indian rhinoceroses have similar body shapes, with males averaging 1.8-2.2 tons and females averaging 1.6 tons

Hippopotamuses, male average 1.5 tons, approaching 2 tons; female average 1.3 tons, approaching 1.7 tons

Long-necked animals, male average 1.1 tons, female average 0.8 tons. The sample is small and the selection is older individuals, which can be considered as approaching the average weight

Black rhinoceroses, male average 1 ton, female average 0.8 tonsWhite-lipped wild cattle, male average 0.8 tons, female average 0.57 tons. The sample is too small and the measured records are few, leading to the value being inflatedElephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses are called thick-skinned animals, the thickness of the elephant's skin is about 3 cm, the rhinoceros is about 3.5 cm, the hippopotamus is about 5 cm, but the rhinoceros's skin is the hardest, and it is the most resistant to defense

But these thick-skinned animals, including elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses, could not completely resist the attacks of tigers and lions' sharp teeth and claws

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