Thailand Tiger Action Plan - Global Tiger Initiative

However, by the time the daughter is fully established as a resident, thereis little overlap with her mother’s territory. For males, the task ofestablishing a breeding territory is more arduous and dangerous. It maytake more than 2 years and involve a series of aggressive encounters withresident males which can lead to serious, even incapacitating wounds andsometimes even death.Unlike in South Asia, where violent and sometimes lethal encountersbetween humans and tigers are not uncommon, Thailand has few recordsof aggressive interactions between humans and tigers. The most recentcases of direct human tiger conflict are two cases in Khao Yai NationalPark: one resulting in the death of a human and a tiger (in 1976) and theother resulting injuries to a human and subsequent killing of the tiger (in1999). In both cases, the tigers involved were old, had damaged teeth,and were suffering from debilitating wounds that prevented them frompursuing and killing their usual prey.Livestock depredation occurs regularly, but not nearly at the frequencyexperienced in much of South Asia. A few cases of the killing of tigersinvolved in livestock depredation by local villagers have also beenrecorded.