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Who is the "king" of tigers? - Bengal or Amur

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10-09-2019, 03:03 PM

(10-08-2019, 09:50 PM)Pckts Wrote: Just 1 single captivity account, nothing more, nothing less.

Siberian tiger killed in fight to the death with big cat ‘pal’ at Chinese zoo
Keepers tried to separate the beasts but were unable to stop younger rival delivering fatal bite to his victim’s throat

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A woman looks at a tiger at a zoo in China. Photo: Handout


A Siberian tiger was killed on Sunday after being attacked by a Bengal tiger with which it shared an enclosure at a zoo in southwestern China, local media reported.
The deadly encounter happened about 10:40am on Sunday morning at Kunming Zoo in Yunnan province, news portal Yunnan.cn reported on Tuesday.

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The body of the slain Siberian tiger lies in its enclosure at Kunming Zoo in Yunnan province. Photo: Handout
The victim was an 18-year-old Siberian tiger named Maomao, while his attacker was a 14-year-old Bengal tiger called Xiaohu, the report said.
Yang Ge, director of the zoo’s animal management department, said that the big cats knew each other well and regularly scuffled, but had never before got into a serious fight.
“There were some minor conflicts between them.” Yang was quoted as saying. “They sometimes bit each other, but only in a playful manner, and nothing serious.”

Keepers at the zoo witnessed the attack and tried to separate the big cats, but were unable to save Maomao, the report said.
“Xiaohu was younger and stronger, but we never thought he would launch a lethal attack,” Yang said, adding that Xiaohu dispatched his rival with a bite to the throat, which would have caused suffocation.

The whole thing was over in about a minute, the report said.
The zoo said it would report the incident to the local forestry authority and process Maomao’s body according to the regulations.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2106286/siberian-tiger-killed-fight-death-big-cat-pal-chinese-zoo

I know this case from 2017:




It was the second case of a Bengal tiger dominating a Siberian tiger that I saw on video (another one being a non-fatal fight at Everland, I think), and one of those cases of fights or fatal incidents between different subspecies or types of tigers, the other non-fatal ones being:

Amur tiger vs 2 Bengal tigresses, video from 2009:




Amur tiger using its size and strength to dominate a Bengal tiger, video from 2010:




White tiger dominates Sumatran tiger, video from 2012:




Additionally, in 2017, 2 normal Bengal tigers fought with 2 white tigers and killed one of them at a fenced area of Bannerghata National Park, India: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...tiger.html



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