(12-22-2018, 11:45 AM)Olga.bohai Wrote:

(12-21-2018, 11:33 AM)peter Wrote: Research says tigers hunt female brown bears with cubs more often than was assumed. You said that female brown bears, as a result, had left some districts. It's known that male tigers hunt bears in particular. When female brown bears leave a district, they have to find alternatives. Anything known on what male tigers hunt apart from bears? Or do they follow bears?

It's known that tigers, even those who often hunt adult female brown bears, do not hunt male brown bears. You said they seem to avoid each other. Is this true for both, or is one avoiding the other? What's the opinion of your guides on male tigers and bears?

According to Dmitry Pikunov, female brown bears with cubs can be dangerous. During his career, 27 people were killed by brown bears. Some of them were collegues. Would you say brown bears in the Russian Far East are more dangerous than elsewhere? Any particular reason?

I wouldn't say that tigers hunt bears (both males and females) intentionally, this is not their main diet, their favorite are wild boars. But they can kill and eat bears if they meet each other on the forest trails. They rarely follow bears in the forest.
Tigers hunt bears' cubs because it is easy for them. 
I wouldn't say Russian brown bears are more dangerous in the Far East than others, people are killed by brown bears mostly because of their ignorance and incaution in the forest. Almost the same reason for people killed by Amur tigers: may be 90% cases is human fault. All tigers which became human killers were attacked by the humans before.

(01-20-2019, 09:29 PM)epaiva Wrote:
Hope you are doing great with your trips to see Siberian Tigers and Amur Leopards, don't forget to update us here in the Forum

(01-31-2019, 06:19 AM)Olga.bohai Wrote:

(01-20-2019, 09:29 PM)epaiva Wrote:
Hope you are doing great with your trips to see Siberian Tigers and Amur Leopards, don't forget to update us here in the Forum

Hi! There is nothing to add about bears and tigers confrontation. I just want to tell that many figures about animals population, especially Amur tigers, are falsified. Hunters, indigenous people  and locals say that tigers' number is twice higher now in our region than it is officially said. So we can't operate the figures now to make any conclusion.

(02-02-2019, 06:12 AM)Wolverine Wrote: What about the planned translocation of Amur leopards in southern Sihote Alin, in their former range? Any news? Untill 1970's I think both tigers and spotted cats inhabited the area of Lazovsky state reserve.

(02-02-2019, 08:58 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: Hello @Olga.bohai can you actually see amur leopards and tigers with you're own eyes, or is it just watching camera trap pictures of them? 

If you can actually see them count me in the near future!! , when is the best time to visit if you want to have the highest chances of spotting them?  I have a trip to Kanha in May and also a Masai Mara trip in October planned. 
Siberia might be the trip after this, my biggest dream as a kid was to see a wild Siberian tiger.

(02-11-2019, 10:34 AM)Olga.bohai Wrote: Last week we spent in Leopard Land National park with the tourist from Germany. That was the most successful trip because the tourist booked 1 PAX tour and kept absolute silence during the whole week in the hide.
He saw the leopard 3 days in a row and listened to tigers' roars next to the hide. Plus he saw very rare leopard cat (we call him Amur cat), Siberian weasel and raccoon dogs.
Here are some videos and pictures (the dates set on night vision and camera trap are  wrong). Tomorrow we go back to the reserve with the new group of photographers, wish them good luck))

Amur leopard 1


Amur leopard 2

weasel

(02-11-2019, 12:22 PM)Shadow Wrote: Nice footage, you really don´t have snow there now. Here is so much, that half of it would be enough :) Was it so, that this winter there has been with very little snow compared to most winters?

(02-11-2019, 12:30 PM)Olga.bohai Wrote:

(02-11-2019, 12:22 PM)Shadow Wrote: Nice footage, you really don´t have snow there now. Here is so much, that half of it would be enough :) Was it so, that this winter there has been with very little snow compared to most winters?

Yes, this is the first snowless winter in my life. There is not much on the North of Primorye but still less than in other years. 
We're waiting for the snow here but no good forecasts...

(02-11-2019, 12:44 PM)Shadow Wrote: How are temperatures? Hopefully bears aren´t waking up too early, if there is a longer time in between waking up and that when berries etc. available it can cause problems. Here in south bears in zoo woke up a month earlier than normally.

(02-11-2019, 01:10 PM)Olga.bohai Wrote:

(02-11-2019, 12:44 PM)Shadow Wrote: How are temperatures? Hopefully bears aren´t waking up too early, if there is a longer time in between waking up and that when berries etc. available it can cause problems. Here in south bears in zoo woke up a month earlier than normally.

On the South the temperatures are abnormal too, all January was about -5-10, usually it is -10-20 C. Bears still sleep luckily but rut time has shifted for two months among  tigers and leopards.

(02-14-2019, 11:50 AM)Olga.bohai Wrote: Yesterday our tourists in "Amur leopard photography tour" went to the hide in Leopard Land National Park. Everybody were waiting for Amur leopards but they took pictures of...Siberian tiger!!! In a wild! From the hide! This is real sensation! Nobody took professional pictures of Amur tigers in a wild so close! There were 2 guys from Korea and Japan who made such pictures in a distance of several hundred meters and it took more than 70 days to wait... And our tourists did it on the first day! We're very proud of our work and love what we do. We'll get their pictures in the end of the tour when they go out from the hide. For now we have videos from our camera traps. Enjoy)


By the way we still have available dates to this hide, start on March, 5th 2019. Become one of 4 first photographers in the world!