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

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Fascinating posts Peter, as is usual in you. http://www.brothersofthebow.com/html/solospirits.html

On the tiger-vs-bear issue, I think you have hit the nail several times here. I still think that normally, males will avoid each other, but like the accounts of Jankoskii and Kaplanov stated, sometimes they do fight and tigers are able to win.

However, it also suggest that tigers need to have some "parity" on the size issue. The large bear killed was probably no less than 300 kg, and we know that they reach up to 320 kg in the Ussuri region. However, the tiger was possibly also no less than 300 kg, according with Jankovski, so the close the weight, more advantage to the tiger.

I also have another case of a tigress killing two bears, here is the table:
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The document is a thesis of Dr Clayton Miller (see the attached file) and he has published other two documents born from this thesis. The tigress that killed those two bears (Pt99) was a 6-8 years old female of 130 kg. Again, it seems that size parity seems to support tiger victory.
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