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

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(07-20-2018, 07:55 PM)Genghis Wrote: Juvenile Amur tiger destroys and tears apart a huge, full-grown Russian boar, twice its own size:

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Young, adolescent tiger crushes a large male Russian boar in a fight:
http://amuroopt.ru/tigryi-na-amurskoy-ze...d-spustya/

Another young, small 3 year old Amur tiger that destroyed and tore apart a very large Russian boar, twice its size, and even heavily damages the huge boars skull bone!

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I already posted this on the 'Tiger predation' thread, but thought it would be good on this thread also...

Remains of a huge male Russian boar, with large tusks, that was killed and devoured by a young male tiger named 'Uporny':

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https://www.dvnovosti.ru/khab/2015/10/22/41252/

Go to 29:45 in this documentary, and you'll see a tiger chasing a massive, mature male tusker boar, and the boar is running for its life:

Go to 23:43 in this documentary. Its said that the Amur tigress named 'Katya' easily takes down and kills 500lb wild boar, twice her own weight:

Even young, juvenile tigers and tigresses hunt and kill giant male Russian boars, that are twice their size, with no problems!

"Destroy", "crush"... Somebody has been reading too many lame youtube animal fight video titles, lol.
The first two claims... isn't it funny how both resemble, specially in the "snout cut with a razor" and "scratched skulls" parts? Is almost like both were talking about the same anecdote...
If you read serious zoological literature -or watch videos of actual natural predation- you'll find that predators don't fight bigger, dangerous animals "to the death" just to mutilate them and walk out triumphantly leaving the prize behind. Nature doesn't work that way, specially not animals that need to avoid injuries to keep procuring themselves food. I haven't watched a single video of a feline jumping on the back of another animal to club it in the head with its "mace-like" paws. If you have, please share.
You keep using those superlatives, "massive", "huge".  The photo of the jawbone has no measures and nothing to compare it with.
The 29:45 scene of the documentary Tigers of the snow was filmed from a helicopter and never are the tiger and the boar in the same shot so, how can you claim the boar is "massive"?
As for the claim in the second documentary, the keyword is "it's said". You shouldn't take on face value everything you hear. Hell, sometimes you can't even take "reputable" sources seriously :

Check 1:28. That's Luke Hunter, CEO of Panthera, in an award-winning multimedia coverage, explaining the cheetah's skull adaptations and differences compared with a leopard, USING A SNOW LEOPARD SKULL... Is preposterous.

That last sentence you wrote, "Even young, juvenile tigers and tigresses hunt and kill giant male Russian boars, that are twice their size, with no problems!", is utterly ridiculous unless you're talking about handicapped, sick, old or injured individuals. Reply