以下是引用ayako在2006-5-9 3:10
4的发言：这张虎鳄斗照片最早在BBC“ WILDLIFE”杂志JUNE 2004登载过,下面是图片的文字说明。
Battle of the giants
The pecking order changes when you’re croc out of water
As this picture illustrates ,desperate times can lead to desperate behaviour.
In this case,the desperate time was a drought in India’s Ranthambore National Park, where by the end of June 2003 there had been no rain to speak of for three and a half years .Rivers and lakes weer low the marshes were drying out and the crocodiles were very bad shape
Some had even begun abandoning the marshes altogether
And ,in the hest of the day ,taking shelter in the deep ,dark chambers of the many temples scattered around Ranthambore. Others ,Perhaps too dehydrated and starved to very far,simply lay on the open ground ,waiting for night –or ,better yet ,rain –-to come .
According to Murlidher Parashar ,the tiger artist who took this picture ,there was also tension between the Park’s two top predators –animals that normally wouldn’t be inclined to cross each other-the crocodiles and the tigress.
A few days earlier,this tigress had caught a sambar deer and ,as tigresses often do,had left it while she went to fetch her cubs.She was only gone a short while, but when she got back,a group of crocs had all but finished eating her prey.
So, whether it was pique or simply coincidence and opportunism, the next time she came across a suffering crocodile, a 12-foot-long one, she attacked. The fight, says Parashar, lasted an hour and a half, whit the tigress holding down the croc’s tail while she tried to reach its neck and deliver a killing bite.
And she finally did ,her strong bite ripping out its shoulder. Says Parashar,”It was the first time in my life that I’d seen a tigress attack, much less kill, a big crocodile”
写的很明显：雌虎K掉了12英尺（3.6米）的鳄
我来翻译下吧,给大家看得明白点........
巨兽之战
鳄鱼离开水域以后会导致优势逆转
正如这张图片所展示的,绝望的时期可能导致绝望的行为
在此事件中,这个绝望的时期是说印度的Ranthambore国家公园的干旱期,在那里,到2003年的6月低,已经超过3个半月没有雨水天气了.小河和湖泊的水面变得很低,沼泽变得干涸,鳄鱼们都形容枯槁.
在这绝望的日子里,鳄鱼们在Ranthambore公园周围那些庙宇下那又黑又深的地穴里寻求庇护,其他一些,也许是身体严重脱水或者过度挨饿以至于无法跑的太远,只能孤单单的躺在开阔的大地上,等待黑夜,又或者能更好一点,等待雨水的降临.
按照拍摄这张照片的老虎学家 Murlidher Parashar 的说法,他对于谈起这场公园里的两个顶级猎食者--两个在通常情况下互不侵犯的动物--鳄鱼和雌虎之间的战争仍然心有余悸.
几天前,这只雌虎捕获了一只梅花鹿,如同雌虎通常的做法,她留下猎物,去带回她自己的幼崽.她仅仅是离开了一小会,但是当她回来时,一群鳄鱼已经将她的猎物大块朵颐了.
所以,不管是报复也好,偶然和机遇也罢,当后来她遭遇一直饱受干旱饥饿煎熬的长达12英尺的鳄鱼时,她发出了攻击. Murlidher Parashar 说,这场战争,持续了一个半小时,当雌虎努力想要接近鳄鱼的颈部并企图一口封喉的时候,她咬住了鳄鱼的尾巴.
最后她做到了,她那强有力的咬杀撕裂了鳄鱼的胳膊. Murlidher Parashar 说,这是在我的生命中第一次看见一只雌虎攻击,猎杀了一只大鳄鱼.
这老虎打败的只是3米6的鳄鱼,很正常的,并且用1个半小时才搞定一条被干旱折磨并饿得半死的鳄鱼!
