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11-02-2018, 03:00 PM( This post was last modified: 11-02-2018, 03:01 PM by brotherbear )
Quote from above post #1885:
a - Using the article published in 2017 only, it's quite safe to conclude that tigers hunting bears in the Sichote-Alin Nature Reserve and the Bikin river basin do not select cubs and immature animals, but, regarding brown bears, adult females or, regarding Himalayan black bears, adults of both sexes. This runs counter to " ... previous assertions that the risk of injury was too high for tigers to regurlarly predate bears (Miquelle et al. 2010) ... " (Kerley et al. 2015, see the third scan). I believe that tigers hunt bears according to size, paying little to no attention to the sex or age of the bears they choose as potential prey.