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

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( This post was last modified: 05-19-2019, 01:00 PM by BorneanTiger )

(05-19-2019, 12:22 AM)Shadow Wrote:
(05-18-2019, 10:50 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(05-17-2019, 10:43 AM)Wolverine Wrote:
(04-15-2019, 08:11 PM)peter Wrote:    

c - Pavel Fomenko

Last year, most unfortunately, he was attacked by a tigress involved in dogs. When the tigress had been arrested, they found out she had cubs. One of them was captured a day later, but they needed 6 weeks to find the other (...). In the rehabilitation center, the tigress and her cubs were initially separated. The tigress, however, could see and hear them. When rangers and researchers approached the cubs, they showed signs of distress. The tigress snapped. She crashed through a fence (...) and attacked the first man she saw. 

Of all men, it had to be the one who devoted his life to tigers. Life is very complex. Fomenko was quite badly injured, but escaped after she, again, was distracted by her cubs. There was no intention to kill, but I'm afraid Pavel, who needed surgery, 

Interview with Pavelo Fomenko after he was attacked by the tigress. As we can see his face is badly mauled. Remarkable man. Despite his injuries in the video he makes a passionate speech for the protection of Amur tiger. He says that as icon specie, top of the food chain and harismatic animal the tiger is like un umbrella which  protect all other species, without tiger the governments will not give money for the protection of the forests and other wild animals. He says that without tigers Ussuri forest would be much more boring place, etc.






And this is a film about Fomenko before he was injured, as we can see on his face. One year before the accident like predicting his fate he says: "Life in the Ussuri forest is dangerous, you can get lost, you can get frozen, you can be attacked by big predator, its easy to die down there":








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Speaking of the Siberian tiger's close relative, the Caspian tiger, like I mentioned here: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-europea...9#pid81909
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... it is likely that the tiger didn't just inhabit or occur in Transcaucasia or South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia), but also in Ciscaucasia: 

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The tiger in this famous image from Berlin Zoo in 1999 was from the Caucasus: https://web.archive.org/web/200708240914...ger-13.htm 

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Also, they mention an 11th-century Eastern European account from the book Poucheniya Detyam by Vladimir II Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kievan Rus', a state that is regarded as a cultural ancestor of the Ukraine, Belurus and Russia (not the 'Rus' in the latter 2 names). Map of Kievan Rus': https://02varvara.wordpress.com/2010/02/...h-century/ 

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In this account, Monomakh, while he ruled Turov (in modern-day Belarus), and Chernigrov (in modern-day Ukraine), he was on a hunt when he was attacked by a lyuti zver (лютый зверь, Old Russian for "fierce animal"). The zver sprang towards his thighs, and hurt him and his horse. Traditionally, the zver was considered to be a wolf or lynx, but according to Heptner and Sludskii, neither would spring at a rider or injure a horse, so it was more likely to be a big cat, with some people thinking that it could have been a leopard, or that it was more likely to be a tiger than a lion. The occurrence of the lion at the southern Russian Steppes, or the area of the mouth of the Don River, is disputed by Heptner and Sludskiy, whereas according to them, tigers likely occurred in the Russian Steppes or at the estuary of the Don River: https://archive.org/stream/mammalsofsov2...lyuti+zver 

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The manner of this attack reminds me of this famous video from India: 




Also, this statue of a tiger attacking a man is in the area of Mount Akhun near Sochi, which as I mentioned above is in North Caucasus: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...untain.JPG

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Just to give an example, here is one case from Finland and year 2014. A woman was riding in the woods, she noticed a bear from some distance and bear stood up to hind legs. She continued riding slowly forward and away from bear. After a moment she looked behind and saw, that bear was running full speed towards horse and her, she made horse to run full gallop and flee, she saw then, that bear was so close, that bear´s muzzle was right beside hind legs of horse. She managed to make horse run even a bit faster at that point while she was panicking. She tells, that bear run very fast, head down and ears back. She tells, that bear chased her and horse about distance of one kilometer before giving up.

Again link is in Finnish, but if someone checks, Karhu=Bear.

https://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/a/2014102918790399

When people see very big bears, they look like clumsy and slow, when they do whatever they want and have nothing to worry about. Even those big ones can surprise many if they get enraged, but smaller and medium-sized bears can run up to about 60 km/h and that is about same speed, which is often mentioned with tigers for instance. There are observations of bears, which have jumped on back of adult moose and clawing sides while "riding" with moose.
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I know that bears can run, but can they jump at people riding animals, in the same way that big cats like tigers can?

Bear play-jumping in the water at Nashville Zoo: 




Big cats by contrast are good jumpers, able to use their skills to aim for specific parts, and the nature of that attack, in which the zver sprang at the Prince's thighs while he rode a horse, has to mean a big cat jumping.

For instance, the tiger aimed for the mahoot while jumping, and managed to land a paw on the elephant's head: 




Other cases of big cats jumping: 

Lions aiming specifically for the backs of large prey while hunting: 









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RE: ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris) - BorneanTiger - 05-19-2019, 11:28 AM
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