why are tigers and elephants skilled
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Tigers are the largest of all living wildcats. Over the course of two million years, nature fine-tuned them as master predators through a trial-and-error process we call Darwinian evolution. Hunting alone, a tiger can take down prey four to five times its own size. While studying wild tigers over a quarter century I have tried to learn how they locate, stalk, ambush, subdue, and kill their prey—typically deer and wild pigs. Occasionally tigers kill calves of elephants and rhinos. However, what intrigued me most was how a lone tiger can subdue gaur, the largest wild cattle species in the world. These muscle-bound beasts, which look like they are on steroids, are three to four times heavier than the tiger. Their menacing horns can lethally impale a tiger; a well-placed kick can shatter its skull. A disabled tiger is as good as dead in the merciless jungle: Its certain fate is starvation to death. Why, then, do solitary tigers indulge in such risky predation? The dramatic video above is from Bandipur Tiger Reserve in India, and it unveils how tigers attack such a large, dangerous quarry.
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The wild tiger is one of the most threatened species on the planet. The main factors behind the endangerment of tigers are spurred by humans, due to demand, customary beliefs, ritual practices of/and increasing number of populations clashing and tampering with the original boundaries and dwelling zones of this wild animal. In some middle eastern countries tiger parts are believed to heal the liver and kidneys and are used to treat epilepsy, baldness, inflammation, possession by evil demons, toothaches, malaria, hydrophobia, skin diseases, nightmares, laziness, fevers, and headaches. Although tiger populations are mostly impacted by habitat degradation and diminution in prey density. Wang and Shen 2010 explain that factors that best explain diminishing population of tiger species are human population density and distance from roads. However, hunting activities and poaching contribute greatly to the declines of this animal. Illegal trade circulating products from tiger parts is another of the major causes of extinction of the Javan, Caspian and Bali tiger subspecies (WWF 2010).
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The main reason though that elephants have been hunted out there is for their ivory. This is worth a ton of money and so huge numbers of elephants were slaughtered in order to be able to cash in on such a business. With each tusk weighing up to 200 pounds, this was amazing. Early attempts to removed the ivory tusks and to leave the elephants alive didn’t work. The elephants were simply too aggressive for this type of process and it was too dangerous for humans to take part in.
Thanks to the development of many synthetic materials, ivory is not longer used to make many forms of art or even piano keys. However, there is still a huge use for it out there on the black market. What ivory is now taken from the elephants draws a huge price due to the limited supply of it out there. This means that illegal poaching of these elephants for that very reason continues to take place.