What is it about?
Understanding the diet of tigers is essential for long term population management. In this paper, our objective was to elucidate the proportion of wild prey compared to livestock in the diet of Bengal tigers in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
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Why is it important?
Tigers in this region fed upon eight different mammal species. Chital (Axis axis) was the major prey with a frequency of 45% of the Tigers’ diet. Tigers also hunted livestock, but this prey comprised a small component of the relative biomass (buffalo 5% and cow 2%). Our study suggests that the tiger depends mostly upon wild prey for its subsistence in the Chitwan National Park, but will also sporadically hunt livestock.
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This page is a summary of: Diet of Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) in Chitwan National Park, Nepal, European Journal of Ecology, October 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/eje-2017-0008.
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