Amur Tigers

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(03-19-2022, 02:15 PM)GreenGrolar Wrote:

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One more thing, here is an email from Dale Miquelle on 2021. It seems someone got in contact with him:

OK, so Dale Miquelle doesn't personally know of a case of an adult male brown bear killed by a tiger, so?  What does this prove overall??  He's only ONE biologist out of countless other biologists and tiger researchers.

Miquelle has around 25 years of experience studying wild Amur tigers, and he studies tigers only in the Primorsky region, particularly in the Sikhote Alin Biosphere Reserve. This is the region and reserve where the STP biologists conducted their research.

But there are also many other Amur tiger researchers and biologists like Alexander Batalov, Tkachenko, Dunishenko etc ...who study tigers in different regions and other reserves, which is in the Khabarovsk territories. Miquelle doesn't research or work with tigers in this region.

Although Miquelle is very experienced (25 years of experience), Batalov is a far more experienced expert than Miquelle is, and has over 40 years of field experience studying wild Amur tigers. And according to Batalov, he's 100% certain that a giant male brown bear, possibly weighing over 400 kg, was killed and eaten by a tiger.

So this email proves nothing. All it proves is that Miquelle personally doesn't know of a case, thats it.

Also, K.G. Abramov, a renowned Russian biologist & tiger researcher, reported two cases of large male brown bears killed by tigers. One case was of a large old male brown bear killed by an old male tiger in the southern part of the Sikhote Alin mountain range. (Unpublished notes) This case was mentioned by the zoologist, Mazak in his book: "Der Tiger". (Not the Jankowski account)

The other case was this ...

A tigress killed a huge male 'Schatun' brown bear out of revenge for killing her cub (K.G. Abramov):

The shatun-bear had not eaten anything for several days, he was overcome by an agonizing hunger, he walked around in search of food, but the wild boars left, and the piglets left with them. And the bear was especially fond of tender boar meat.

Suddenly the bear raised its head and drew in air: there was no doubt, but he still couldn’t believe it - he got up on his hind legs, looked around, sat down and sniffed again, and now, without stopping, went to the thicket.

The tiger cub had just eaten and, contented, nonchalantly stretched out beside the remains of the wild boar. The appearance of the bear was unexpected and therefore especially scary, but the tiger did not retreat, he decided to defend himself. And the animals grabbed! The tiger inflicted well-aimed punches with its paws, tufts of wool flew, the ground was covered in drops of blood. Soon blood flowed from the bear's side, ripped open by tiger's fangs, but the bear, although hungry, was huge, especially its ten-centimeter claws. He finally crushed the tiger under him and lifted it up, and then dined on it and the pig. The next day I finished the leftovers; bones, pieces of skin filled up with branches.

The tigress in a rage rolled on the ground near the remains dear to her, then took the trail of the connecting rod, overtook him, jumped at the bear with a huge jump and bit his neck ...

Now, with new cubs, the tigress is firmly holding on to the Wangqing Valley. Here, in the rocks, surrounded by dense fir trees, they are almost inaccessible to humans.

http://www.ohot-prostory.ru/index.php?op...ew&id=2963

There's no doubt that full-grown adult male brown bears have been hunted, killed and eaten by tigers in at least several cases. Reply