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

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( This post was last modified: 05-28-2023, 08:21 PM by Apex Titan )

A new recent documentary (April 6, 2023) about Amur tigers entering human settlements, attacking and killing people, dogs and livestock. The documentary features some of Russia's leading tiger experts like Alexander Batalov, Sergey Kolchin, Yuri Kolpak, Yuri Nikolayevich Vankov and others.

One of the Russian tiger experts / ranger Yuri Vankov who works with the Amur Tiger Center, says some very interesting and fascinating remarks about the Amur tigers huge size, immense strength, power and killing abilities. He also talks about tigers vs bears.

Tiger vs Bear

In the documentary, the Russian tiger expert Yuri Vankov (pictured below) states that the main food of tigers is wild boar, red deer and bears. He also states that both the Himalayan and brown bears are hunted and eaten, and as a rule, the tiger defeats the brown bear in a fight. Which again confirms that tigers not only kill adult brown bears by ambush, but also kill adult brown bears in head-on fights, in which, according to the observations of experienced biologists, hunters, naturalists, locals & rangers, the tiger usually dominates. In the Khabarovsk Krai, bears make-up 13% of the tigers annual diet.

Back in 2021, Sergey Aramilev (General Director of the Amur Tiger Center), referring to fights between tigers and brown bears, stated: "An adult male tiger will always kill any bear, but a young tiger or female can lose to a large male brown bear."  

Yuri Dunishenko (senior researcher & field biologist) also stated: "A very large bear has a better chance against a tigress or small (young) tiger. When meeting a large adult tiger, the bear already has fewer chances."

Aramilev and Dunishenko's statement was also backed up by the recent case of the moderate-sized male tiger 'Odyr' who annihilated a large adult male brown bear in a fight. The killed male brown bear was specifically noted to be of "impressive-size" and was significantly larger than his killer. The tiger was not injured in the fight.

Here, you can see and hear straight from the mouth of an expert authority on wild Amur tigers. A man with a lot of knowledge about wild Amur tigers, their ecology, predatory behaviour, feeding habits etc.....

"The main food is wild boar, then roe deer, red deer, and bears."

"Can a tiger kill a bear? - Yes. 13% of the diet is bear meat. White-breasted (Himalayan) for one or two. Brown bear, in principle, there were cases when both predators died, but as a rule, a tiger in a fight with a (brown) bear comes out the winner."

"A large predator (tiger) is 250-300 kg of muscle mass. There's no grease, nothing. There are only muscles. There is crazy power."

Go to 22:33 in the video: (This video has clear English subtitles translation)






This forest inspector, ranger & tiger expert - Yuri Nikolayevich Vankov, works with the Amur Tiger Center and Yuri Kolpak:


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In addition, Pavel Fomenko, a game biologist and one of Russia's leading tiger experts, stated this in his new book: "Kiss of the Tiger."

"A tiger can fight with a brown and white-breasted bear and will most likely defeat them, and for dessert this versatile predator will not disdain a mouse or a frog."

The author of the book is a game biologist Pavel Fomenko, chief coordinator of biodiversity conservation projects at the Amur branch of WWF Russia. For his merits in the protection of the Amur tigers, Pavel, the only Russian, was awarded the title "Hero of the Planet" by Time magazine.

https://wwf.ru/species/amurskiy-tigr/kni...-tigritsy/

Most experts (biologists, zoologists, rangers, hunters etc) strongly favour the tiger over a large brown bear in a fair fight. Their opinions and conclusions are based on their own field experiences and observations, as well as accounts from their fellow colleagues, local Russian hunters and native peoples.

Bears are one of the Amur tigers favourite prey items. In the Khabarovsk territories, bears are heavily predated on by tigers and large bears are also killed. Sometimes, tiger attacks on large bears turn into a face-to-face fight, in which in general, the tiger defeats, kills and eats the bear. 
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