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I add this much still to what comes to it, that how many bears are killed annually by tigers. I have calculated sometimes what percentages mean in numbers of individuals. It is naturally clear, that not all remains of dead animals are found. So estimations has to be done based on information what there is. But when knowing roughly how much meat tigers usually eat, it is quite easy to calculate rough estimation about annual need and then understand, what for instance 2% of tigers annual consumption is in kilograms. Then again when making estimation how much there is to eat in one animal, for instance from a bear tiger might eat 65-75% (?). 

I don´t put here now figures, because I feel, that not enough information for many things. Anyway when making some calculations it is easy to get some idea in what range numbers are when thinking about bears. If someone haven´t done this kind of cold valuations, there might be surprises. But I haven´t seen anything especially extraordinary, what comes to this subject, in a long time. Lately some interesting new information to think about, but not what comes to numbers, instead what comes to possible behavior of these animals. 

That is what I meant, that I disagree in a way, what comes to it, that lately we would have got information, that tigers hunt bears more, than we knew before. I haven´t seen any dramatic change in figures, same kind of percentages with some variation when in some area(s) has been happening something unusual. Still overall percentages seem to be quite stabile. Reply