Tiger Predation

[BARKA]

(11-28-2017, 08:00 PM)Rishi Wrote:

(11-28-2017, 05:48 PM)BARKA Wrote: And i've read Kerley's email, when she said "Anything can happen between Tigers and Bears"...

The emboldened part is true. Everything else you've said is an assumption...

Quote:...Tiger is a totally different beast, which is known to have attacked and killed Bull tusker Elephants and adult Rhinos.

Alone? Source please..

Quote:Even the large male Brown bears never challenge prime male Tigers over kills, never!

And how do you know that? Himalayan bear's have been recorded doing it.. successfully.. by James Edward Corbett.

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The basic law of natural selection is that predators would go for the weakest. A tiger that doesn't pick fight with a Brown bear (& vice-versa) would live longer...

We have unconfirmed reports of male bears having been killed by tigers.

But what @CrysOmega meant by "we do not know the conditions of the big male bear, we do not know exactly if it was so big"..is that we don't have any follow-up info.
We don't know how old it was... We don't know if it was sick/injured... We don't know whether it was hibernating (a bear's most vulnerable state)...

A 600lb tiger wouldn't risk its life attacking a perfectly healthy 600kg bear, just so that people will sing songs about its bravery on Wildfact.

@Rishi

You're telling me, that you post all this info on Tiger threads and you're not even aware of the Tiger killing adult Elephant accounts??...Very shocking!

I suggest you go read Colonel Kesri singhs book "The Tiger of Rajasthan" where he witnessed and documented an account of a Tiger that killed an enraged Bull tusker Elephant, in Kaziranga, Assam. The accounts called "Death by a thousand cuts"....

There's other accounts of Tigers attacking and severely injuring Bull tusker Elephants too.

Tiger attacks Bull Elephant, after killing a Buffalo...and critically injuring it.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/1091226/j...908740.jsp

So you see...i'm not just talking bullshit. I've done IN-DEPTH research about Tigers and read many accounts. "A 600lb Tiger wouldn't risk it's life attacking a perfectly healthy 600kg Bear, just so that people will sing songs about it's bravery on Wildfact".....No, that's just you're assumption and speculation, not a fact. 

Here, READ THIS SOURCE! https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WGvV...ear&source

John vaillant actually went and spent time in the Russian far-east and spoked to many locals, hunters, natives and biologists...and what did he end up finding out by them? Lets see, he clearly states that "Tigers will pick fights with Bears, prosecute the battle - as sometimes happens - to the point of tearing the bears apart, limb from limb and scattering their appendages across the battle ground"....

You're just going off the "General rule" in the wild, of predators mainly attacking the weak prey. That's not always the case! If that was, then we wouldn't have all these amazing accounts of Tigers killing over 1 ton Gaurs and Buffaloes, killing Bull elephants, adult Rhinos and large Brown bears. You clearly don't understand this. A Tiger will attack just about anything it can. Far more impressive predation and killing feats have been recorded by Tigers, then the one of the Amur Tiger killing the large male Brown bear.

If 140-150kg Tigresses have attacked and killed 1 ton Bull Gaurs, Buffaloes and even adult Crocodiles, then a massive, powerful 300kg male Tiger can easily successfully predate on a massive adult male Brown bear.

Here's a video of a large dead Brown bear, that was killed by a Tiger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD49KJWsk-Y Reply