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03-03-2018, 04:12 AM( This post was last modified: 03-03-2018, 08:42 AM by Wolverine )
Greatearth, sloth bear always target the face of the enemy, its a rool, whatever is this enemy - human, , tiger, leopard etc. 90% of human victims of sloth bear attacks have a terribly mauled faces (look at the photos) - scalped heads, lost eyes. ears, thorn big parts of the face etc. Same is with the tiger. Sloth bear is relatively small and weak animal (twice smaller than tiger) thatswhy it cant kill a tiger or inflict a serious body injuries to him. So the only way to neutralize a tiger and save his life for sloth bear is to target the face and more specially the eyes, because if tiger loose his sight he is done. That doesn't mean that you are going to see in any corner of jungles roaming a blind tigers. Actually tigers know very well for this danger so when they have an violent encounter with sloth bear they keep their faces and eyes out of the range of the long claws of sloth bear, actually thatswhy Indian tigers avoid close encounters with sloth bears. They hunt them if the bear doesn't known about tiger's presence, attacking the bear suddennly from behind with neck bite, but if bear has localised the tiger and knows about his presence and turn face to face than tiger usualy withdraws.
Brown bear from Ussuriland in same time is enough big and powerful and could potentially neutralise a tiger in many different ways , so it doesn't need to target tiger's face during close encounter so it's tactics should be tottaly diferent. That's my humble opinion.
I finished with this topic. Later we can talk with you about Jankovski and Korea and why there are so many leopards in his book.