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

[Vegeta San]

(10-21-2018, 01:44 PM)Shadow Wrote: As I wrote, it looks like adult male brown bears and adult male tigers don´t seem to challenge each others in normal situations. Yes, when we look 19th century, 20th century and 21st century so far, we have a few cases back and forth with more or less information. Is there a few cases tigers killing adult male bears, why not? A few cases bears killing adult male tigers, why not? About 200 years is a lot of time and there have to be many cases which we never will know. 

But when we look at cases we know and include there uncertain ones which can be argued, we still have so few cases, that those are more or less meaningless. Obviously these animals are able to kill each others and that most probably is the thing keeping adult males avoiding each others usually. When we look latest timeline or as you say modern days, it looks to be just normal situation. If we put statistics there and include uncertain cases, we have a dead adult male brown bear maybe once in 40-50 years. Same with killed male tigers. So latest statistics can be seen also just confirming normal relationship between these animals. 

Tigers of modern day has lost most of their size. That must be one of the reason for tigers to avoid messing with adult male brown bears. And Brown bears naturally won't mess with adult male tigers.

(10-21-2018, 01:44 PM)Shadow Wrote: I haven´t seen any researcher talk about it, that tigers nowadays would be unhealthy, so I don´t know about that. I have seen theories, that it is more difficult to find prey and forcing tigers to consume more energy in hunting and keeping them in lighter weights. But hopefully conservation programs are efficient in future and if poaching can be stopped or at least limited to be a minor factor, maybe we can see in future some bigger tigers too, than lately, what comes to weight.

I've lost the source. Trying to find out, probably post whenever I found it. But one thing is clear, in history Siberian Tigers reach their maximum of 300kgs(mazak). But in modern day, 200kgs is the maximum. It says it all, they're definitely not reaching their full size... Reply