Big cat and Bear tale

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(11-07-2018, 06:34 PM)epaiva Wrote: Valuable information sent by Ms. Olga Krasnykh owner of Bohai Tour agency, they provide ecological and animals watching tours in Primorsky Krai - the far Eastern region of Russia.

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Always interesting to hear from locals, even though this once again doesn´t tell too much anything new for this topic, which wouldn´t be known already. Hopefully there is in future more research about interaction between these animals. It would be nice to have some more detailed information. Like how many brown bears there are estimated to be in same area as tigers and what is difference compared to other areas where bears live.

It is natural, that when there are two dominant species in same area competing for same food, that there is some difference. But are we talking about really one species expelling another or adaption by both species to live there side by side and able to survive with current number of possible prey and other sources of food. Of course if tigers kill "too many" female bears, it has to have impact to population even though males would be there without problems.

We can always seek "easy answers" to questions or then we can dig in and try to really understand something. Many times these topics are focused "who is toughest" and still here are many issues more than that when looking at these interactions. Reply