Big cat and Bear tale

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"Some older tigers would also stalk and kill brown bears, which were easier to catch than elk. Following tigers with radio locators, Bart could read these stories in the snow. The tigers usually just walked the bears down from behind. The big cats had killer instincts and usually about a hundred pound weight advantage on the bears. They would go straight for the neck and sever the spine at the base of the skull. Every once in a while the trampled snow would tell of a furious fight, which always ended with a dead bear. During the study, the team determined that vehicle injuries and poachers caused most tiger mortality. Bart said that if the tigers were going to survive, humans were going to have to want them to and find ways to share the same ecosystems. I could tell that Bart was proud of the team’s work as they made progress in habitat planning, forest usage, establishing travel corridors, and public relations. Insurance policies were provided to farmers who suffered livestock losses. He said, “The science is great, but ultimately we need the support of the people who live and work along side these great cats if we are going to succeed.”


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"Recently on the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere reserve, Hornocker and Quigley discovered a 400 lb male Siberian tiger had developed a strange preference for just one prey:brown bears. Although red deer and other game were readily available, this cat stalked and ate bears almost twice as heavy as itself. The biologists tracked the tiger through the snow to eight seperate bear kills, all of which seemed to have been acomplished without great effort, except one. In that kill, there was evidence of a vicious battle with bits of bear hide strewn over a wide area. but the tiger had won. The only conclusion is that without natural predators, bears forage with heads down, worry free."

"Goodrich talks about his work, and about what he and his wife, Linda Kerley, have learned in their three years here. Siberian tigers generally feast on elk or boar; but sometimes they eat wolves, and one male at Sikhote-Alin specializes in brown bears. He weighs in at 445 pounds; he'll kill bears bigger than he is."
Siberian tigers are menaced as Russian economy collapses

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