Big cat and Bear tale

[Rishi]

There are equal number of clips of sloth bears scampering off from tigers too, but ofcourse they are wary of each other. Sloth bears are practically oversized honeybadgers!.. While they may not be an actual threat to a tiger's life, nor mess with tigers unless they have to, but they live their lives with this motto.

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How overconfidently aloof can a species be that we have half a dozen footages of tigers creeping within inches of them (Ranth youngsters all @GuateGojira). 

But this is not a very welcome sight for any tiger, especially if followed by it charging headlong with a "khuwaaaaaaaa, khaw khaaa khaa" scream. 

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(03-10-2020, 11:37 PM)Rage2277 Wrote: sloth bears chase tigers in any reserve it's nothing unique in ranthambore idk about sloth bears dominating tigers there because that would involve them bulling tigers of their kills which i've yet to see and tigers have killed and eaten sloth bears in ranthambore here this is the usual outcome when they chase a tiger

krishna's son as a young sub

Brave kid... I noticed it's the subadults & young-adults in their bravado that tend to hold their grounds in a faceoff, from Broken tail & the above to one's in previous posts or Wagdoh's son. Adult males like T-57, T-24 have broken & fled. 

Taking down sloth bears is like gaur hunting, not everyone is a by-default bear hunter. There's a learning curve. Matkasur seemed to know exactly what he was doing, just too hot day.
That engaging & disengaging away seems to be an intentional tactics out of experience, given how he kept following her after, as bears have serveral times more stamina than them. Reply