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

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Credits to poster 'goodhope683' for contacting biologist Sergey Kolchin.

This is for the bear-posters who claim that this incident is not confirmed by biologists. By the way, a biologist doesn't need to "confirm" this account to be true anyway, they're not the authorities in this case, the forest guards and rangers are. They're the one's who found the killed bear and examined the place! They found clear traces of a fight between the tiger and brown bear.

When a highly respected biologist and major expert on tigers and bears in Russia (Batalov) did report a case of a tiger killing a huge male brown bear, the bear-posters ignorantly rejected Batalov's account because it didn't suit their agenda, so why are the bear-posters now referring to "biologists" about this case, when you've already rejected an account from one of Russia's greatest biologists and largest bear specialists??

Sergey Kolchin (a field biologist who studies tigers and bears in the Khabarovsk region) commented on the recent incident of the tiger killing the large male brown bear. Kolchin confirmed that the incident is true, in fact, Kolchin wasn't even surprised that this happened, because he said brown bears are common prey for adult male tigers. 

The link to the report (account) was also sent to Sergey Kolchin. Also, not a single biologist or scientific researcher has disputed this account. Why? because its common knowledge that tigers prey on adult brown bears, an established scientific fact thats reported in scientific literature, research papers and stated by biologists, hunters and researchers.

Q: Hello, sir. You are an expert on bears, and in Russia, I want to ask whether it is true that brown bears were killed and eaten by tigers. Thank you, sir.

Sergey Kolchin: Hello. Yes, it's true. Why not? This is a common prey for adult male tiger. Bear was not so bigger.

Q: Oh! Thank you for your reply! thank you! This bear has a front palm pad width of 18 cm. Is he an adult?

Sergey Kolchin: I'm not sure that the size of the paw is determined correctly. 18 cm is a big male. but the bear didn't look like that.

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There you go!  Even a biologist has confirmed this account. 

Of course the killed bear won't "look like" a large male to Kolchin, because the tiger had already eaten a large portion of the bears carcass, and its hard to judge the size of a partially-eaten bear from a video filmed on a phone or pictures.

But all 3 experienced forest rangers were able to determine that the tiger killed a large male brown bear of impressive size, with a palm callus width of 18 cm. This is undeniable.

In the Khabarovsk region, bears (both black & brown bears) are common prey for adult male tigers. Kolchin also finds remains of huge male black bears (weighing 170-200+kg) that were killed and eaten by tigers. In the Khabarovsk territory, tigers hunt and kill large bears, and in some cases, even huge bears.

This is not surprising because tigers always prefer the largest prey animals. Large animals can feed a tiger for at least a week, and also maximize their energetic return.

According to biologist Kucherenko's observations, when a tiger kills a large, 200-300 kg bear, it will feed the tiger for about 8-10 days:

"Our numerous observations have also shown that an adult tiger eats a pig of average fatness (about 30 kilograms) or half of a two-year-old pig in one go. A red deer or a wild boar with a live weight of 150-200 kilograms is usually eaten by a tiger in a week. A crushed large bear (weighing 200-300 kg) has an animal that lives for 8-10 days."

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