Big cat and Bear tale

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(04-18-2019, 11:12 AM)Rage2277 Wrote:

(04-18-2019, 09:56 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(04-18-2019, 08:41 AM)Rishi Wrote:

(04-18-2019, 07:25 AM)Rage2277 Wrote: now how did it supposedly kill this tiger did it break the neck did it get a throat grip?

Nobody said anything about "killing"... The report is pretty clear on the nature of death;
The dead tiger had serious puncture wounds on its head, one of its eyes was completely damaged and the claws were injured...
...the head and neck of the animal showed multiple punctured wounds leading to massive hemorrhage and shock from fighting with another large animal's teeth & claws.

Most tiger deaths by infighting happen later, due to excessive blood loss or detoriation of wounds. They assumed it was another tiger (until they found no other pugmarks) so I'm guessing something similar happened. The bears have short fuse & long claws...

I once found this on taxidermy.net

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The tiger's body was found in a waterhole, where he may have been resting.

One good case here to remember is that from Ankara zoo, where a tiger managed to get a lucky shot and kill a lion with swipe of paw as far as zoo personnel told and can be believed. So it was separated from lion but could swipe with paw from between the bars and managed to hit and cut open jugular vein causing that lion to die. So there was no "death grip" from throat or back of the neck. Just one very lucky tiger like some lottery winner and one very unlucky lion. These animals are after all flesh and blood, sometimes they can take unbelievable beating and survive, sometimes then not, one wound in wrong place and bye bye tiger or lion or bear. Anyway there are many ways to get killed by another animal and if some animal dies to massive bleeding caused by another, then it is usually said, that it was killed by that another animal. Of course it can be said, that it died to injuries caused by another animal if that sounds better.

i don't bye that ridiculous account either..one lucky swipe?,come on really and also while sloth bear claws are long and strong they're not designed to grip and tear flesh like cat claws,they do more damage with their teeth as could be seen with the matkasur and bear fight where matkasur sustained puncture wounds on his arms and chest area no visible claw marks i can recall

You are entitled to have your opinion naturally. I just don´t see anything so special in this case. Tigers and sloth bears are known to fight time to time and this time then tiger wasn´t lucky one. That is how I see this case based on current information available. You see it differently, no problem :) Reply