ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[Jimmy]

@Wolverine I thought the tiger did manage to overwhelm the bear with it's power, two things: the bear was tenacious enough  to keep fighting since it was protecting it's cub and the tiger was tiring due to heat. The tiger did not lose either , it did not seem to have any worse wounds than the bear and was actually winning the contest, until it just could not finish off the bear and exhausted itself in the heat. Of course, the bear would not let it any closer to itself (and to it's cub) and that is it. The scenario was that the tiger which was in the waterhole saw the bear coming and went for it or the cub then in the end the bear chased it up to the same waterhole where the tiger cooled off. so in a sense the tiger did not have its ground to the bear on the contrary sloth bears which were coming for a drink had to go thirsty. However, the bottom line and the important thing is that sloth bears are known aggressive bears and they have been surviving in tiger territory, they have their own strategy for survival which should not be made a case for Brown bears as they are completely different. For an opinion, I don't think tigers will make such a full body contact fight against a brown bear and might use it's agility instead. Reply