Big cat and Bear tale

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(12-09-2024, 10:56 AM)book88 Wrote: @peter @Apex Titan
A question.    Was this huge brown bear killed by humans?

"After some time, probably smelling fresh meat, the bear came and interrupted the tiger's meal. Judging by the footage from the camera trap, there was even a fight between the animals. One of the mother bears recorded on the video has a fresh deep mark from a claw on her nose. The tiger probably tried to defend its prey, but the forces were not equal," Gotvansky notes.

Let us recall that a similar story was observed in Khabarovsk Krai in 2017. Then, a huge brown bear stalked a tigress with her cubs for a long time and took her prey. As a result, the predator "complained" about her offender to a local male, who was able to drive the bear away from the female and provide her and the cubs with a well-fed life. The bear, which gamekeepers called Chlamyda, was supposed to be shot.
https://todaykhv.ru/news/in-areas-of-the...nce/76270/

Gotvansky is referring to a fight between a young tigress and an adult female brown bear. The tigress injured and deeply lacerated the mother bear's nose in the fight. However, the young tigress was completely fine.

"Judging by the video, the successful hunter was a young tigress."

Here's the young tigress who injured the adult female brown bear in the fight:

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No, the huge brown bear 'Chlamyda' was not killed by humans, he was killed and eaten by the male tiger 'Ochkarik'. Humans were supposed to shoot the bear, but after the tigress Rashel complained to Ochkarik (father of her cubs), the male tiger appeared in the area and killed and ate the giant bear. All this was reported by biologist Alexander Batalov, several times in recent years. Batalov knew the huge brown bear 'Chlamyda' very well. After he suddenly vanished, Batalov found remains of a brown bear in Ochkarik's scats.

Alexander Batalov is the Director of the Durminskoye forest and hunting enterprise, so if those licensed hunters had "killed" the bear, Batalov would have certainly known about it. But Batalov is very sure and adamant, based on the clear tell-tale signs and evidence he saw, that the huge brown bear was killed and completely consumed by the male tiger Ochkarik, who he also knew very well.

In the most recent interview with Alexander Batalov (2024), Batalov again mentioned how the tiger Ochkarik killed and devoured the huge male brown bear 'Chlamyda':

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https://todaykhv.ru/news/in-areas-of-the...nce/71709/

https://habarovsk.bezformata.com/listnew...127201098/

In 2020, on a live TV panel, Batalov mentions this case to the TV news presenter. And Batalov said the tiger Ochkarik came, saved the tigress from this bear, and destroyed him. I posted all the reports, articles, and video in the tiger extinction thread. Reply