Fig 1.
Map of the study area, the Panna Tiger Reserve.
The core and multiple-use buffer zones, villages, and water bodies are shown. The circles and triangles represent the spatial location of wild and domestic prey items killed by 10 radio-collared tigers between 2009 and 2014.
Table 1.
Wild and domestic prey species killed by 10 radio-collared tigers in the core and the multiple-use buffer zones of the PTR between 2009 and 2014.
Fig 2.
Percentage of domestic animals killed by male and female tigers in the core (black bars) and buffer (grey bars) zone of the PTR between 2009 and 2014.
There was a significant interaction between sex * zone (df = 2, p < 0.05), with similar proportions of domestic animals being killed in core and buffer zones by males and females.
Fig 3.
Percentage of domestic animals killed in the multiple-use buffer zone of the PTR by tigers during different seasons.
There was a significant interaction between seasons * zone (p = < 0.001), with the proportion of domestic animals killed in the buffer being highest during the rainy season.
Fig 4.
Percentage of domestic animals killed by male (black bars) and female (grey bars) tigers increased with distance from the core zone of PTR.
At >10 km distance from the core zone, males and females killed domestic animals in similar proportions, with this result being statistically significant (df = 2, p = < 0.001).
Fig 5.
Percentage of domestic animals killed by tigers during the summer (black bars), rainy (dark grey bars), and winter (light grey bars) seasons with increasing distance from the core zone.
The proportion of domestic animals killed doubled at >2 km distance from the core during the rainy and winter seasons (df = 4, p = 0.006), but remained low during the summer.