Big cat and Bear tale

[Shadow]

(11-14-2018, 02:22 PM)Olga.bohai Wrote:

(11-09-2018, 09:28 PM)Shadow Wrote: It would be nice to know more, that where biggest forest fires have been? And have in those areas been also tigers and black bears, and if so, why brown bears suffer most about such catastrophes? Or have these fires happened mainly in areas, where mostly only brown bears, what comes to predators?

Everybody suffers about forest fires. On the South there were more forest fires because less snow. Nowadays there is the same impact both on the North and on the South because of National parks protection activities.
Than Hymalayan bears were under protection of the Red Book till 2000-s. Plus Hymalayan bear is more tropical animal and they live mostly on the South of the Far East where tigers (also tropical) used to live, and brown bear prefers North.

It is of course clear, that all animals suffer when fires. But that still leaves some questions if some suffer more than others. One reason could be dens as that research indicates a little bit. Maybe this is one issue again, which isn´t studied so much and difficult to find clear answers today. It was just interesting, that in that report it was mentioned how fires had made brown bears to move to other areas, but there was not mentioned  Himalayan bears. That´s why I thought, that have fires been in areas with more brown bears or some other reasons maybe. Of course people who made that research might have some answers. Reply