ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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(06-26-2023, 05:13 PM)Apex Titan Wrote: Email from Alexander Batalov regarding the tiger 'Ochkarik' killing the huge male brown bear 'Chlamyda'.

The poster 'Goodhope' received an email directly from biologist Alexander Batalov himself. In the email, Batalov confirms that the tiger Ochkarik did kill and eat the giant brown bear named Chlamyda who harassed the tigress Rashel back in 2017.

Unfortunately, Ochkarik is gone now, as he was an old tiger over 13 years old and was getting into quite a few vicious fights with other younger adult male tigers like 'Jack' over territory. Other tigers have taken over his territory now. Ochkarik was last seen in 2022.

https://www.hab.kp.ru/daily/27395.5/4590526/

To recap: when the huge brown bear Chlamyda was harassing the tigress Rashel, she complained to her mate - the 'Bespectacled tiger' (Ochkarik) about the bear. When Ochkarik appeared in the area to meet her, around that time, the giant brown bear had suddenly vanished, never to be seen again. Batalov then found the remains of a brown bear in Ochkarik's feces and the tiger had become very fat, so fat to the point which shocked Batalov. He had killed and fully-consumed a very large brown bear.

To this day, the huge male brown bear 'Chlamyda' has never been seen again in the Durminskoye forest or the entire Khabarovsk region! If hunters would have killed or chased out the bear, Batalov would have certainly known, as he is the Director of the Durminskoye forest (hunting farm) and hunting enterprise. 

An "incredibly huge" (as Batalov described him) male Ussuri brown bear, likely weighing 400+kg, who was described to have "maniacal perseverance", just suddenly vanished around the time when Ochkarik appeared in the area to meet the tigress, and Batalov then finds remains of a brown bear (in Ochkarik's feces) that was killed and eaten by a predator that's well known for regularly hunting bears, having an extremely vindictive and vengeful nature and takes trespassing and violations very seriously.

Not to mention, Ochkarik was also a 'bear-killer' tiger. In addition to killing brown bears, he also habitually hunted Himalayan black bears and would even climb up trees in winter and pull bears out of the hollows of trees and kill them. So he was already an experienced and adept bear hunter.

All the clear tell-tale signs clearly indicated that the enormous male brown bear was indeed slaughtered and completely devoured by the tiger Ochkarik. And Batalov, a major expert authority on tigers and bears, saw more than enough strong circumstantial evidence that makes him adamantly believe that Ochkarik surely killed this particular brown bear.

It's 2023 now and there's still no sign, no trace or word of Chlamyda in the entire Khabarovsk region.

Translation:

Dear Dr. Alexander Batalov:

You said that you judged that a huge brown bear disappeared because the tiger Ochkarik killed it. Because the brown bear often bullies his girlfriend and steals her food. In addition, you also found that Ochkarik's stomach became bigger and there was brown bear meat in his feces. I want to make sure it's true? thank you!

Alexander Batalov:

Yes, it's true. Unfortunately Ochkarik is gone, but other tigers have appeared..."

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I also, previously in this thread, posted a video (2020 interview) of Batalov stating that Ochkarik liquidated (destroyed) the big male brown bear.

"Ochkarik once killed and ate a brown bear that was chasing a tigress with a tiger cub. After that he was so bloated that Batalov could not understand at first what happened. But then he found bear meat in the tiger's feces."

"(Photo #7 - image was taken with a camera trap owned by Alexander Batalov. In the photo is the tiger Ochkarik, who ate a bear and therefore has a fat belly)."

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4l0CqHh9z/...f36ead2773

Correct me if I am wrong, but now we have two cases of adult male tigers killing and eating adult male brown bears, but there is still no case of the other way around, is correct? Reply