Amur Tigers

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@GreenGrolar 

I was wondering, have you ever seen or heard of a reliable account of a Ussuri brown bear ever killing a large male wild boar?  A certain bear poster claims (based on nothing) that adult male brown bears will readily prey on large male Ussuri wild boars, whereas the tiger (based on pure guesswork, as always) usually "avoids" hunting large male wild boars and even moose. He has no shred of evidence to back up these baseless claims.

Can you ask the administrator of the bear forum to show you just one single account of a Ussuri brown bear killing a large male wild boar?

There are countless accounts of Amur tigers and tigresses hunting and killing large male wild boars. In fact, there's also numerous accounts of inexperienced juvenile tigers/tigresses successfully hunting and killing large male Ussuri wild boars. Amur tigers, including females & youngsters, have no problems at hunting and killing big mature male wild boars. Cases of large male Ussuri wild boars injuring, let alone killing a tiger are extremely rare, its barely ever happened, despite being regularly attacked and killed by tigers.

I know adult male brown bears have hunted adult male wild boars, but there's a big difference between a average-sized adult male wild boar, and a fully mature (seasoned) large male boar that tigers readily prey on. I've looked, but never found a single account of even a big male brown bear successfully hunting a big male wild boar. Got any accounts of this happening?

Here's a wild interaction between an adult Ussuri brown bear and a wild boar. After a short skirmish, the bear runs away from the wild boar:

The footage is from this documentary "Where the Amur tigers roam" featuring biologist Kucherenko & a young Alexander Batalov: (Go to the 5:12 mark and see the full interaction)

Here's hard evidence and clear proof for the administrator of the bear forum, who deliberately tries to degrade the Amur tigers formidable hunting prowess and feats. 

Not only do adult tigers readily prey on large male wild boars, but even young, inexperienced tigers/tigresses successfully hunt and kill large male wild boars, large adult moose and even adult bears.

From the legendary Russian explorer/naturalist - V.K. Arseniev

The only animal that the Russian wild boar fears, is the tiger:

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https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.../page/n335

Amur tigers (tigresses, juvenile tigers) killing large male wild boars & very large adult moose:

"The Amur tiger Borya, released in the taiga by President Vladimir Putin in May 2014, along with the tigress Svetlana prey on bears in the forests of the Zhuravliny Wildlife Sanctuary in the Jewish Autonomous Region, Newsru.com reports citing the Tiger Center public organization."

"The audit showed that tigers not only successfully hunt wild boars and red deer, but also adult bears and moose. Specialists found at the site of the tiger meal the remains of very large individuals of moose at the age of three to four years.”

https://www.amur.info/news/2016/12/02/118653

https://www.newsru.com/russia/01dec2016/tigers.html

Juvenile tigress "Elena" killed a full-grown bull moose: (In Russia, moose are commonly called "Elk", and the elk deer are called "Wapiti")

Having reached one cluster, where Elena, judging by the incoming signals, spent the whole day on March 17, scientists discovered the remains of an adult male moose. The successful hunt for the largest hoofed animal of the Khingan Reserve became a bright final chord for the young tigress in the development of accessible food objects - now the predator has a complete set. By the way, her brother Pavlik got his first sokhaty-three-year-old back in August last year - three months after being released into the wild. Elena took longer to do this, but the quarry she extracted was larger and older than that obtained by Pavlik.

“As it was possible to establish on the spot, Elena’s hunting for the sukhoi was not provoked by the low abundance of other ungulates in her habitat: in this region there are a stable high abundance of wild boar, red deer, and roe deer. Apparently, the tigress wanted to test herself in the prey of such a large ungulate, and she successfully coped with it. Thus, there are no ungulate species left in the reserve that the tigress has not yet obtained: previously we recorded her successful hunts for wild boars, red deer and roe deer, ”comments Vyacheslav Kastrikin , deputy director of the Khingan Nature Reserve.

Remains of the adult bull moose that was killed and eaten by the young tigress:

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http://amur-tiger.ru/ru/press_center/news/1416/

This same young tigress hunted and killed a bear:  (6 September, 2020)

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http://amur-tiger.ru/ru/press_center/news/1477/

https://livebir.ru/siela-miedviedia-i/


This tigress, as a young juvenile, also hunted and killed a large male wild boar:

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https://www.amur.info/news/2019/06/13/155452

http://programmes.putin.kremlin.ru/en/tiger/news/25882

https://mir24.tv/news/16364780/ne-zlite-...-ei-kabana

Employees of the reserve, following the trail of tigers, found the remains of wild animals. So the tigress Elena crushed a large boar. “They examined Pavlik’s clusters and confirmed that he caught a roe deer and a wolf,” Vyacheslav Kastrikin, deputy director of the Khingan Reserve, told Amurskaya Pravda.

https://ampravda.ru/2019/06/13/089037.html


The tiger 'Beast' killed a large wild boar and a Himalayan black bear:

"It was possible to observe his successful hunt twice: first, the giant cat crushed a large boar and savored the carcass for a couple of days, then a Himalayan bear became its prey, which, by the way, is not uncommon in the diet of a striped predator."

https://todaykhv.ru/news/society/29772/?...um=desktop


Russian tiger biologist, naturalist & ranger, Vladimir Troinin eye-witnessed an epic fight, in which a juvenile Amur tiger killed a huge male wild boar, twice its own size, in a fight to the death:

 

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Juvenile Amur tiger kills a large male wild boar in a fight

"All three 1.5-year-old tigers successfully settled in the Amur region."

"The male named Kuzya in the first days of freedom moved to the area of the Uril River in the Arkharinsk region. He crushed a large male wild boar: traces of a tough fight were found. For four days he fed without leaving prey."

https://ampravda.ru/2015/05/19/057430.html

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https://xakac.info/news/38308

https://amurinfocenter.org/directions/zh...amura-876/

https://www.interfax-russia.ru/far-east/...kilometrov

https://vladnews.ru/2015-01-06/72799/kre...prezidenta

Juvenile Amur tiger 'Kuzya' hunted and killed a very large wild boar:

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https://russia.wcs.org/en-us/About-Us/Ne...-Wild.aspx


Large male wild boar killed and eaten by a adolescent tiger

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“Recently we have been to one of the mountain ridges of Anyuisky National Park. While studying three spots we found the remains of a large male wild boar proving Uporny’s effective hunt. The size of his victims discovered during the field checks testifies that he easily hunts on large ungulates," comments Alexey Kostyrya,  senior researcher at the Institute of Biology and Soil, the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Science.

https://wwf.ru/en/resources/news/biorazn...ogo-kraya/

https://www.dvnovosti.ru/khab/2015/10/22/41252/

https://vk.com/topic-68054567_31221834

Tiger dying from cancer kills and eats a large male boar with just its front paws

Skull of the big male wild boar that was killed and eaten by the weakened, dying tiger:

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https://portamur.ru/news/detail/posle-ro...-medvedem/

"Veterinarians said that after the autopsy of a tiger that died in the Amur region, the cause of his death became known: the animal died of cancer of the kidneys and adrenal glands."

"An autopsy showed oncology of the kidneys and adrenal glands. Doctors believe that this is what caused the failure of the hind limbs, complications and, as a result, the death of the tiger. The second tomography showed inflammation in the internal organs, but it was difficult to determine their cause from the image," says in the message.

"The theory that he was injured in a fight with a wild boar is untenable, since in this case either the tiger would have stab wounds and, being weakened, he would die there, or the predator would overcome the enemy."

https://www.tvc.ru/news/show/id/31664

http://www.khingan.ru/view_news.php?id=45

Note, this tiger was already dying and severely weakened from cancer and was paralyzed in the back legs, and it still managed to tackle and kill a large mature male boar, using just its front paws. Then went on to hunt bears and more wild boars.

"Having tracked an animal, a tiger will not run long after its quarry. The only exception is the wild boar, which a tiger chases with tenacity; the predator will systematically kill one after the other, until the entire herd has been destroyed. Subsequently, it will set off to find a new herd. Hunters refer to this method of tiger hunting as "grazing" the pigs"..

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https://archive.org/details/mammalsofsov...4/mode/2up

From Russian biologist; Bromley: Ussuri Wild boar - 1964

"In the same valley of the Fata river, where two families of wild boars lived, a large family bed was found among a pile of oak leaves, and at 400 meters from it, in the bushes of chosenia, was a 160 kg male wild boar killed by a tigress. Judging by the tracks, the tigress ate the prey for two days."

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Three big wild boars killed by one tiger

"In 1963, three large boars were found near the Columbus River, killed by the predator not far from one another."

Kucherenko S.P - On the Ecology of the Amur Tiger - 1972

В 1963 г. в районе реки Колумбе были найдены три крупных кабана,убитых хищником невдалеке один от другого"

Кучеренко П.С. "К экологии амурского тигра" 1972

Juvenile Amur tiger 'Pavlik' killed a large wild boar:

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http://amur-tiger.ru/ru/press_center/news/1416/


Tigress and cubs feeding on a large wild boar that was killed by a male tiger.

"For the first time, camera traps recorded her together with her sister and mother in 2018. Below is a video in which the whole family feasts on a wild boar killed by an adult tiger, which experts consider the father of the family."

"The boar, apparently, was large: a female with tigresses came to the carcass 3 times in the period from February to April 2018."

N.A. Baikov - The Manchurian Tiger

"Killing a large boar, 10-15 poods of weight, ( 163 kg - 245 kg ) the tiger drags it to a secluded and secret place, usually near to water, and at first devours fleshy parts from thighs, back and abdomen. To be full satiated, it must eat up to 2-3 poods of meat."

https://m.blog.daum.net/han0114/14856906...ory=548077


Adult male wild boar killed and eaten by an Amur tiger in the valley of the Kievsky stream: (from the archive of N.I. Kovalchuk, village of Melniki)

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General Director of the Amur Tiger Center, Sergey Aramilev states: that the Amur tiger preys on large wild boars, while the leopards hunt small wild boars:

"The leopard preys more on small animals - roe deer, hare, small wild boars, while the tiger preys on large wild boars, red deer, sika deer, so the overlap of the ecological niche is not so big. And the number of tigers and leopards in Russia is not so high."

https://rg.ru/2018/12/24/reg-dfo/dvuh-am...irodu.html

"In addition, their food preferences also differ. The tigers are very picky about their food. Paradoxically, they prefer wild boars, despite the fact that we have more sika deer - about 22,000-24,000 animals. There are about 6 thousand wild boars, and it seems that the tigers prefer ‘pork’. But the leopards are not inclined to hunt such a strong and dangerous animal, and roe deer or deer are the best choice for leopards."

https://eco-tourism.expert/en/exclusive/...-wild-cats

Even in India & Nepal, Bengal tigers readily prey on large male wild boars. In Chitwan, biologists McDougal and Dr Seidenstecker found that tigers were killing huge wild boars weighing up to 500 lbs. Tigers were selecting and going out of their way to take the larger wild boars:

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https://archive.org/details/tigers00seid

Go to 33:28 in the video; A huge male wild boar running for its life from a tiger:

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Ussuri wild boars are the largest and most aggressive species of wild boars on earth, with large males reaching weights up to 700 lb. Due to its sheer size, strength and armature, its usually too dangerous for leopards to hunt adult male Ussuri wild boars. Nor have I ever heard of a single account of a adult male Ussuri brown bear ever killing a big male wild boar. 

Whereas young juvenile tigers and tigresses have no problems at hunting, fighting and killing large mature male wild boars. It clearly seems that even juvenile, inexperienced tigers are far more capable and willing to attack and kill huge male wild boars than an adult male brown bear is.

Question for the administrator of the bear forum, can you post just one confirmed account of a Ussuri brown bear killing a large male (not average-sized) wild boar?? I'd like to see.

There are numerous accounts of young, inexperienced tigers and tigresses killing big male wild boars, so if what you claim is true, you should have no problem in producing just one single account of a brown bear killing a big male wild boar. Why are there plenty of accounts of tigers killing large male wild boars, but not a single account of a brown bear killing a large male wild boar?

I have even more accounts of Amur tigers killing large male wild boars, but I won't post them all here, because the post will become too long.

The only predator in the taiga that hunts and kills large male wild boars is the tiger.  An adult male brown bear may hunt ordinary (130-150 kg) adult male wild boars, but the huge mature male boars (exceeding 500 lbs) are only taken by the tigers. This is what evidence and modern/historical research strongly suggests.

And in the reserves where moose are available for tigers, tigers, including juveniles hunt and kill even the very large adult bull moose. As the above accounts confirm. Reply