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

[brotherbear]

Peter, you are right, that was a long post, and I'm happy that is was. Very informative and mind-changing. I am seeing clearly now that, without so much hostility in the past on sites like AVA and similar, myself and others might have learned a great deal a lot sooner. I read every word of your post, gladly.
A fight between a brown bear and a tiger of near-equal size it appears, can easily go either way. This is a lot different than the lion and the spotted hyena "war" where the hyena needs numbers against even one lion.
We must keep in mind that each animal is an individual. One bear might discover tiger tracks and run from them while another bear would follow them. I find it interesting that, for the most part there is understandable mutual avoidance, there is also known animosity between brown bears and tigers. No clear-cut picture.
My old friend, a one-time AVA poster ( charger1 ) put it best, I believe: "tiger vs brown bear is like the unstopable force meeting the immovable object; anything can happen."
Guate, I'm not really good with charts normally, but I believe I can read this one. The same tiger PT99 that killed two adult bears also killed four adult wild boar, two boars and two sows. Incredible. Thank you both for this mind-changing information.
*I had to go to "science made easy" to check Christina's weight - less than 300 pounds. So, going against my former beliefs, at weight parity, it appears that the odds are in favor of the tiger.
 

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