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

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Some follow-up information on the male tiger Odyr and his mate (tigress Zlata), after the incident that happened last month of the tiger Odyr who killed and ate a large male brown bear. The incident is also mentioned by Yuri Kya in this report. Odyr is the dominant male tiger of the Khekhtsir reserve and is a bold, powerful and confident tiger. 

The incident of the tiger killing the large male brown bear was even reported on the TV News in Russia:

https://yandex.ru/video/preview/5924337490626234978

This report also shows how experienced these specialists are, and that they know the forest and animals that live within it, very well and intimately. Such experienced experts and specialists like Yuri Kya, would easily be able to determine if a tiger killed a bear by looking at the traces on the ground, especially in the snow. The fact that anyone would have the nerve or audacity to doubt or dispute their expertise, conclusions, credibility and qualifications, is utterly ridiculous and laughable. In the forest, you don't get more experienced people than the ones pictured below.

The kill-site (large male brown bear killed by a tiger) was examined by highly experienced experts, and the traces of a serious fight in the snow, clearly told the story of what happened to the brown bear.

Tiger Odyr became the owner of the Bolshekhekhtsirsky Reserve near Khabarovsk and surprised environmentalists

Yuri Kya, and the other forest rangers, guards, ecologists and inspectors, who took part in the census of animals in the Khekhtsir reserve:

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"Conducting a census of animals in the reserve, its employees were surprised at the composure and confidence of the Odyr tiger."

The press secretary of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Amur Reserve" Olga Apollonova informed that the first stage of the winter route registration (abbreviated ZMU) of animals and the installation of camera traps took place in the Bolshekhekhtsirsky Reserve, as soon as a stable snow cover formed in the taiga. The employees of the protected area, together with the specialists of the "Reserved Amur Region", were distributed along six routes with a total length of 105 kilometers and, some on skis, some on snowstorms, set off at the same time in the early morning to carefully and painstakingly study every trace left by a forest dweller on the snow cover of reserved paths.

As a result, as the trackers reported, Dmitry Grankin and Yuri Kya counted three tigers along the route of the Kabanya-Polovinka streams. Traces of the male Odyr (width of the imprint of the callus of the front paw 11 cm) were found from the fish hatchery towards the Polovinka stream. As it turned out later, he crossed the Polovinka and was noted in the area of the Bykov stream. The accounting route - he did not cross the Sosninsky stream (apparently, he stayed for a day). The female Zlata (width of the callus of the front paw is 10 cm) and her one cub (width of the callus of the front paw is 6-7 cm) were found in the buffer zone of the reserve near the Kedrovy farm. The second cub, apparently, moved a little to the side from the path.

“According to my analysis of the movement of tigers, it turns out the following: on November 27, Odyr was noted by us on the carcass of a bear that he had killed earlier; on November 30, he was noticed by a detachment of border troops at the junction of the Bogdanovskaya-Chirkinskaya outposts. Now, apparently, Odyr is going back to the southern exposition of the reserve, judging by the straightness of his course, ”summarizes Yury Kya, chief engineer for forest protection and forestry activities of the Bolshekhekhtsirsky reserve.

Ecologists also noticed that the male's left hind leg bleeds a little. However, judging by the footprints in the snow, the wound is not critical. The Pathfinders were surprised by Odyr's composure and confidence when meeting people. 

“The fact is that during the ZMU, my colleague and I decided to cut the arc of the “borannik” directly along the forestry road of the Polovinka River, while the tiger was walking quietly at that time, almost sneaking in parallel-oncoming along the “borannik”, hiding behind the windfall aspen and missing us, crossed the accounting route behind, - Yuri Kya describes the situation . - Coming out on the Buranovsky trail, we saw the trail of a tiger. I decided to tread it a little along the "burannik". Walking back, I saw that the tiger crossed our trail just two minutes ago, and after crossing our trail, he raked a couple of times and launched a jet. At the first meeting with me on July 31, 2015, he did not behave like that .

And here is what Yuri Kya wrote in his diary in 2015, when he first met Odyr: “Ahead, 80 meters away, I saw a tiger moving lightly jogging across the ski slope. From an unexpected meeting, I was dumbfounded, then convulsively began to take out the lens of the navigator to photograph the magnificent predator. Apparently, with peripheral vision, the tiger noticed these awkward movements, turned his head in my direction and somehow tightened up, so that his shoulder blades stood up like a hump, without changing the gait, crossed the remaining open space and disappeared into the reserved silence ... ".

As Yuri Kya notes, then the Odyr tiger was young and inexperienced, and now the beast is in the full dawn of its strength, and therefore is calm.

https://www.province.ru/habarovsk/news/t...logov.html

Yuri Kya has known the tiger Odyr since he was young. Now, the tiger Odyr is a mature male tiger at 10 years of age, dominant, very powerful, bold and confident.

Although being a moderate-sized male tiger, he was able to successfully attack, fight and kill a large adult male brown bear. It's likely he has hunted and killed other adult brown bears, and due to his experience, he had the confidence and skill to attack and kill a mature male brown bear of large size.

Biologist Tkachenko also studied tigers in the Khekhtsir reserve, who actively hunted bears, and brown bears were also taken. He also noted that male tigers would more often prey on adults, larger bears, while the tigress more often preyed on younger bears. ('Tigers on Khekhtsir: conditions and prospects for existence, 2018).

Sergey Kolchin, a field biologist and major authority on tigers and bears in Russia (post #2,650) said that brown bears are common prey for adult male tigers. Due to this fact, Kolchin wasn't even surprised that an adult male brown bear was killed by a tiger, he also never disputed this account, as it is a confirmed case determined by experienced specialists.

Male tiger Odyr who reigns supreme in the Khekhtsir reserve: (He appears to be young in this picture)

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