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

[Wolverine]

Sloth bear is much smaller and weaker than brown bear but its more aggressive, its probably the most aggressive and braver bear specie, a fierless animal. As a general rool sloth bear almost never escape a big predator climbing on the tree (as for example usually are doing Asiatic black bears in Ussuriland climbing on the trees in case of danger)  and almost always stand his ground. For sure sloth bear is nor capable to kill a tiger but it can inflict with its long claws a serious ingury to tiger. I have an impression that the main purpose of sloth bear in fight with tiger is to pull out his eyes, there were more than one tiger in India losing an eye from shoth bears. In a struggle between tiger and sloth bear the tiger is a "boy" and the bear is a "girl". Probably everybody of us when we were teenagers in the school it that good old times when the feminism was still not born.... we had some encounter with girl.... What she is trying to do - to pull your hear to scratch your eyes with her long claws and she even much weaker than the boy is quite formidable adversary..... (ok, this was a half joke)... So that's basically is the tactics of the sloth bear in encounter with tiger.

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