Big cat and Bear tale

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(12-03-2020, 01:23 PM)Shadow Wrote: Older case from Ranthambore, October 2011. For some reason reporter writes about Asiatic black bear, but in photos it can be seen how a sloth bear mother charges approaching tiger while having two cubs on her back all the time. Was the tiger just passing by or did he have some thoughts to have a meal is unclear, but it´s clear that this mother bear didn´t like to see a tiger so close and she showed it.

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This summer photographer Aditya Singh witnessed a mother sloth bear fight off a tiger in the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve in India. Singh caught the whole battle on camera in the following photo series. All photos by Aditya Singh

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Amazingly, this bear had already fought off another tiger just minutes before. By the time this tiger came around, a small group of tourists had gathered.

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The brawl lasted for about three minutes though neither the tiger nor the bear were severely injured. In the end, bear ran the tiger off.

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Some more photos and story here: https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/galle...hts-tiger/

ustaad and noor were mating when the sow stumbled upon them and chased them off Reply