Amur Tigers

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Quote:Watch: Siberian Tiger Flees Cave of Sleeping Female Leopard (it says large tiger at the bottom)

"In addition to showcasing the beautiful feline predators up close, the footage shocked some of the scientists in the reserve when the large tiger fled after sighting the sleeping leopard—an unlikely show of courteousness, or perhaps cowardice."

"The tiger was not frightened by the leopard, but more likely he spotted a hibernating bear in the cave.

There is another account on news which seems to say the contrary. Could you explain this please? Thanks. Personally I think the tiger being able to hunt megafauna is impressive. However, a male brown bear with more flexible forearms will be more capable of defending itself up close. Bovines stiff limbs prevent them from defending themselves should a tiger get it by the throat or jump on its back. Off course I don't mind people disagreeing.

The author of the article you posted is clearly lying, reporting wrong info, and seems to have deliberately not reported the full context of Viktor Storozhuk's statement. 

The footage doesn't show the tiger "fleeing" or being "frightened" by anything. Where the hell did the author get this from? What video was he watching? lol... Neither did any of the researchers and authorities state this. The tiger looked in the cave in hopes of finding a sleeping bear to kill and eat, but there was no bear, so the tiger left the cave.

Here's the full context (facts) to Viktor Storozhuk's statement:

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https://iz.ru/677772/2017-12-01/tigr-i-l...-natcparke

https://primamedia.ru/news/650351/

Look, the Amur Tiger Programme reported the same thing:

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http://programmes.putin.kremlin.ru/en/tiger/news/25644

Adult male tigers actively hunt bears and a sleeping bear is easy pickings for a tiger, so a male tiger would never get "frightened" or retreat from a hibernating bear, thats ridiculous. The tiger was hunting for a bear.
 
Your article is clearly wrong.

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Another source reporting blatant misinformation. This source states: "Scientists report about 12 incidents when tigers were killed and eaten by brown bears (most of which were female and male adult tigers). 

That is completely false. There's not a single account in history of a brown bear killing an adult male tiger, none. Those 12 cases consisted of tigresses, few young males and cubs. Not a single adult male tiger killed.

It also states: "Tigers will usually stand their ground and defend their kills, unless the bear is a large male."

Again, this is false. Tigers are well known to fiercely defend their kills even against large male brown bears. In fact, large male brown bears clearly avoid contesting male tigers kills and only occasionally contest a tigress's kill. Which is confirmed by scientific field research.

The source of this screen-shot is unknown, its very unreliable.

Quote:Another source below:

Despite the fact that his diet is dominated by food of plant origin, brown bear is the largest ground-based predator before the Far East. This beast is capable to obtain practically all forms of the mammals: from the mouse-like rodents to the tiger myshevidnyh.

In the far Of east are known the cases of the selection of victims by brown bear in Amur tiger and leopard. In of the Of sikhote-Alin preserve before 35% of cases of the victim of tiger they were obtained by the brown bear as a result of their selection from owners. In this case the tigers departed based on their victim entirely, or alternately divided them with the bear.

All cases were of tigresses and young individuals, and you know that. So no point of posting this source.

During the study period (1992-2003) field researchers and biologists found only 11 cases of brown bears (adult males) usurping the kills of female tigers. The 35% is out of few cases. Read the chapter 19 study and see the full context. This is a vague statement.

Majority of the time, large male brown bears will wait for the tigress to finish eating and leave the kill, before usurping it. i.e. scavenging on left-overs. This is the most typical case observed and determined by biologists.

From the Siberian Tiger Project:

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