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

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Peter, here is the Russian article:

https://todaykhv.ru/news/in-areas-of-the-province/8794//


MANIAC-BEAR PURSUES TIGRESS IN HABAROVSKII REGION

All this month a gigantic brown bear leaves without food a tigress with two cubs, residing in the territory of forest-hunting economic unit in the aria of Lazo.

The fact of pursuing is confirmed by photos from camera trap, installed on tiger's trail by the biologist and hunting expert, director of the forest-hunting economic unit "Durminskoe" Alexandr Batalov. One of the photos clearly shows a tigress and after 30 minutes on the scope of the camera trap appears bear following her traces.

"I observe that tigress already several years. Her name is "Rashel"" - told Aleksandr Sergeevitch to the journalist from Information Agency "Habarovskii Krai Segodnia". "Last year she gave birth to four cubs" ... etc. etc ... this passage is not so important .......

But the bear doesn't give the tigress the opportunity to finish her meal, and the tigress herself doesn't enter in confrontation with the bear because she is much smaller.
"The bear knowing that Rashel is a skilled hunter and has cubs follow her and wait until she kill something. And once the bear find the kill chase her away." - said Batalov - "And the bear doesn't eat fresh meat, he burry the meat underground, wait for some time around and than consumate it."

Normally the situations when tigers and bears meet each other on same trail and enter in confrontation with each other are result of the lack of food resources. Large brown bears during the fall must gain enough body weight before entering hibernation that's way they sometimes start behaving as carnivores - hunt week, sick animals or appropriate the food from obligatory carnivores .

........ etc ...etc.  ......   explanation that sometimes brown bears hunt Asiatic black bears.........

But in this current season there is enough food in the forest for everybody. Its visible on the bear himself (meaning the bear is fat). Most probably the male bear just got used to "easy" life on the shoulders of the tigress.

The hunters from the forest unit could help tigress to get rid of the parasite (the bear), hunting season opens in October. Until now they are not succesfull in this task. They are going to follow the bear when the snow fall. "
That's the end of the article.

My comments. Its obvious that this particular bear is extremely large, a real giant - probably 1,5 times larger than average male Ussurian brown bear. Its easy to assess the size of the bear by comparing it with the size of the tigress since on the photos they stay close to same tree. The average weight of Siberian tigress is 120 kg, the average weight of Ussurian male brown bear is 260-270 kg. But the bear on photos obviously is from 3 to 3,5 times larger than the tigress, totally dwarfing her. That mean that the body mass of that giant should be I the range of 360-420 kg.
As I know that is the first photo-evidence of interactions between amur tiger and brown bear. All previous evidences are only written reports of scientists and hunters. The question is where is the video itself from that camera trap because we currently have only two photos from the video leaked into mass media? Reply