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

[Vegeta San]

(10-21-2018, 01:08 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Give us the sources Vegeta San.

Definitely....

#1. Here's an account from the great biologist, V.Mazak, from his book: "Der Tiger" of a male tiger that killed and ate a very large male Brown bear:

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This is the Sungari river Amur tiger, shot by hunter Jankowski, in Manchuria. This male tiger was reported to have killed and eaten a huge male brown bear, a few days before it was shot:

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This is the English translation of the German writing/paragraph marked in red on the page.

Mazak added:

"To complete the information on this giant tiger, I should perhaps mention that Jankowski wrote that the tiger had killed and eaten a very large male brown bear a few days before he was shot, of which only a leg and the head, found by Jankowski, remained ..."

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The huge male brown bear was killed and eaten by the tiger in the summer of July 1943. Again, the bear wasn't in hibernation, it was killed in summer time, where scientific studies have shown thats when tigers mainly hunt and kill brown bears.

Here’s a sketch from Mazak, depicting a tiger killing a male brown bear:

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#2. K.G. Abramov also reported on a male tiger who had killed a large male Schatun' in the 1958-1959 winter (In the Central Sikhote-Alin Mountains).

#3. Account from Russian wildlife Naturalist, Rakov, who also documented a case of a tiger that killed and ate a large male Brown bear: (Top paragraph).

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Here's the translation to the Russian text:

"In the basins of the river Tahobe, Kuznetsova in the winter of 1956/57 and 1958/59. There appeared two tigers, who bypassed: this river, went to the west, over the pass of the Sikhote-Alin. In December 1959 on the river. A light tiger killed a large brown bear, and lived near him for about 10 days, until it was eaten, and then left to the south along the coast-sea (AE Karavanov)."...

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The large brown bear was referred to as 'him', which clearly indicates it was a large MALE Brown bear that was killed and eaten by the tiger.

#4. An adult male tiger killed adult male brown bear in a fight (Sysoev).

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All these were from Russian literature and are legit. I thought you already know that... Reply