Amur Tigers

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The prey of the Amur tiger:

Let's know the prey of the Amur tiger:

a. From Sunquist & Sunquist (2002):

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b. From the original source of Miquelle et al. (1996), this is the most complete:

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Now, how large are these animals? Well, here are the tables of sizes of all of them (those over 0.5 %, discarding the grouse). In the case of the herbivores, those marked with red are the ones from the Amur region:

1. Red deer - 54.3 %

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2. Wild boar - 29.5 %

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3. Roe deer - 6.3 %

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4. Musk deer - 2.5 %

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5. Bear (Brown and Black) - 2.2 %

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  * Asiatic black bears:

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6. Moose - 1.8 %

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7. Ghoral - 0.9 %

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8. Sika deer - 0.5 %

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The source of the herbivores is this book, from 2003:

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The source of the brown bears is from a Russian page, the author was Dr Kucherenko and the document was from 2003. Here is the link:
http://safariclub.ru/trofy.php?action=view&id=24

The source of the Asiatic black bear is this:

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Some of those animals were also prey of the Caspian tiger, by the way. The only missed here is the saiga, which was, apparently, also important for the tigers in the Caucasus.
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