Density and Abundance of Prey Species in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve

Raju Lal Gurjar; Anil Kumar Chhangani

doi:10.36808/if/2019/v145i10/149187

Density and Abundance of Prey Species in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve

Authors

Raju Lal Gurjar Department of Environmental Science, Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner, Rajasthan
Anil Kumar Chhangani Department of Environmental Science, Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner, Rajasthan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2019/v145i10/149187

Keywords:

Tiger, All Prey, Wild Prey, Livestock and Ranthambhore National Park.

Abstract

The density and abundance of prey species have been estimated in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve. Authors estimated 128.44 animals of all prey, 05.83 animals of wild prey and 117.24 animals of livestock per km² in Ranthambhore National Park and 92.39 animals of all prey, 03.16 animals of wild prey and 89.70 animals of livestock per km² in human landscape area. All prey, wild prey and livestock are more in Ranthambhore National Park than human landscape. Tigers are dispersed from Ranthambhore National Park to human landscape area and survive on livestock base in human landscape because of wild prey is very less in human landscape areas compared to Ranthambhore National Park.

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