ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[Apex Titan]

Here's the picture of the tiger (from Frozen Planet 2) licking the bark of a tree, that some time earlier, had a brown bear rub against it:

*This image is copyright of its original author

"Brown bears preparing to hibernate in Siberia face an added survival problem. They have to make sure that while they sleep, they don’t fall prey to tigers (pictured a Siberian tiger)."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...et-II.html


This statement is referring to the picture above:

"And then there’s the beautiful, dangerous, near-extinct Siberian tiger, which appears to lament the presence of a (brown) bear by a tree. The tiger proceeds to lick the bark, as if dreaming of the meat that once stood there."

https://www.culturewhisper.com/r/tv/froz...ough/17144

This is interesting because the filmmakers captured footage of likely unknown tiger behaviour. It seems that tigers, when smelling the scent of their prey (i.e. bears) on a tree, proceed to lick the bark of the tree, as if craving to eat the bear.

This behaviour shows that tigers are quite complex animals to understand. Biologists are always finding out more and more unknown behaviour of animals they've studied for decades. Russian biologists and researchers study tigers by tracking them in the snow, finding their kills, sometimes by radio-collaring, examining their scats and (in more recent times) capturing pictures or very short videos of them on camera traps. But shooting videos of wild Amur tigers hunting and interacting with other animals seems almost impossible.

Hopefully in the near future, filmmakers or researchers, will be lucky enough to finally record video footage of an Amur tiger hunting and killing a bear, or interacting with a brown bear at a kill-site. Reply