Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

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UNFRIENDLY NEIGHBOURS
https://blog.wcs.org/photo/2015/11/04/unfriendly-neighbors-amur-tigers-wolves-russia/

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TIGERS AND WOLVES in Russia have an uncomplicated relationship: they simply don’t get along.

In retrospect, however, it became clear that this single snapshot of their relationship did not reveal the full story. At the time of that analysis, Amur tigers were rebounding from a historical population low. As tigers reoccupied forests long abandoned they then displaced the wolves, either by killing them or driving them out.

First, in the Pri-Amur region, where Amur tigers have been absent for half a century. Here, tigers are now being released to recolonize former habitat, and one of these tigers killed and ate two wolves during her first winter in the wild. If tigers are successful at regaining a foothold in the Pri-Amur, wolves might disappear from the region.

Photo of wolf eaten by juvenile tigress ©Denis Kochetkov

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