Big cat and Bear tale

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(09-13-2019, 03:53 PM)Luipaard Wrote:

(09-13-2019, 03:45 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(09-13-2019, 03:26 PM)Luipaard Wrote: If shared before please let me notice but here's something fascinating; camera traps of a large male brown bear and an Amur tigress in Khabarovski Krai during October 2017 at 30 minutes one after the other. This bear was notoriously continuously harassing the tiger who had four cubs and still has two living with her, regularly usurping her kills!

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These photos are familiar from different threads. That tigress Rachel (there are some other ways to write her name too) was truly harassed by this bear Mantle (Russian names Chlamus or Khlamida). Soon after these photos it left Rachel alone and disappeared for some time. For some reason there was gathered people to hunt Mantle and kill it to help Rachel, but they didn´t manage to find and shoot the bear.

Rachel met also male tiger Ochkarik soon after these photos and some think, that she called him to help. Difficult to say what made the bear to disappear at that time, but they said, that he is a smart bear and hunters with guns for sure can be intimidating for an experienced bear. Mantle was seen later and last observations at the area early winter 2018. After that no observations so it most likely spends some time somewhere else, male bears can travel hundreds of kilometers during summer.

Rachel moved her place of residence after that incident, but she is ok. She was mating with Ochkarik at the end of January 2019. I asked about Rachel and Mantle from Alexander Batalov and got this much information about it, what happened after these photos.

Thanks for the additional information. This event however once again shows you that neither of these two animals are dominant over one or another. The 'theory' of male tigers targeting sows and cubs and avoiding males seems to be true and the same can be said the other way around.

Also, for what reason did they want to shoot Mantle? Isn't this a natural occurrence?

I understood, that they were concerned and wanted to help tigress to get rid of the bear because it had been stealing kills from her so long time. They had still licences to hunt bears legally at the time and they have so few tigers there. If that bear would have killed or injured Rachel who knows what would have happened to those two cubs, which she still fed at the time. Anyway it was nice to learn, that they were unable to shoot him and also tigers were ok. Mantle really looks like an enormous bear, even though Rachel has her front leg a bit diagonally, it´s obvious, that shoulder height of Mantle is on different level. Reply