Big cat and Bear tale

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(01-29-2024, 08:07 PM)Pckts Wrote: Sub adults still have large canines, you’re not going to be able to determine a difference of a few cms with the naked eye. Judging by the size of the bear, it’s a small female or a youngster. I’ve seen a Bear that was the size of small Boar and a Male that was massive, probably double the size of this Bear.

This bear is clearly not a small female or youngster. It's been stated that it was a fully-grown adult bear killed (Screen-shot from 'Tigers of India').

Individual size and weight variation, especially in bear subspecies, is very pronounced. A fully-grown adult male brown bear can weigh only 165 kg, whereas another individual of the same subspecies can weigh 300 - 400+kg. So it depends.

Sloth bears are a medium-sized bear species. Whereas Bengal tigers (along with Amur tigers) are the largest subspecies of tiger, significantly larger than even a fully-grown adult male sloth bear. So the average tiger is gonna make the average adult male sloth bear look kinda small anyway. So that doesn't mean that this bear was a "youngster" or "small female" like you're merely guessing.

This adult sloth bear looks "small" to you because it was killed by a significantly larger predator, that's all. Reply