Amur Tigers

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(03-25-2022, 10:02 PM)Spalea Wrote: The hunter,in order to glorify the tigers that he so easily killed, invented an orgasmic story of a female tigress bringing down a big brown bear by pawing it just a single time.

Hunters are so childish...

And you know this for certain, based on what evidence?  Or based on pure guesswork?

Quote:It sounds paradoxical to see how some tigers lovers are able to accredit the tigers killer guy's account just because they need to  maximize the predatory abilities of the striped cat.

I don't deny the Siberian tiger is able to kill an adult brown bear, but by reading some of you, I am just amazed to see that brown bears are still capable to survive in such an hostile environment. Especially when you're pretending that bears are the favorite tiger's prey.

No doubt that the hunter was a extremely vile and worthless scumbag who killed tigers, but that doesn't mean his story is false. Kucherenko, who was a renowned tiger biologist, scientist and researcher, who spent his entire life studying and working to protect wild Amur tigers, believes the hunters account. So what does that show you?

I clearly said its likely that the hunter exaggerated some of the details of his story, but unlike you, I'm not gonna ignorantly dismiss his entire story because he was a tiger hunter. So its NOT "paradoxical" to believe his account, period.

When did I say that bears are THE tigers favourite prey??  Show me?  I said SOME tigers habitually hunt bears and prefer killing and eating bears over ungulate prey animals. For some tigers, bears are their favourite prey item, this is a documented fact. Although wild boar and red deer, in general, are the primary food source for tigers, bears come in second, and are one of the tigers top favourite prey. This is a scientifically established fact (confirmed by peer-reviewed studies). In the summer and fall when bears are available to hunt, tigers regularly prey on them. In fact, bears were more important in the tigers diet (during summer) than wild boar and deer.  I posted the info, which your clearly ignoring. 

So who's the one pretending now?

"Traditional methods based on snow tracking may overestimate large-ungulate kill rates by tigers, hindering tiger conservation efforts in the Russian Far East. A prediction of this hypothesis would be an increase in summer predation on bears and other smaller mammals that are hibernating and less accessible during the winter months."

"Recent scat analysis research in the Russian Far East has shown non-ungulate prey species are present in tiger scat significantly more often during the summer months."

https://www.speciesconservation.org/case...-tiger/412

"Take diet for example: kills can be found more easily in summer, from which it has emerged that badgers and bears are more important in the tigers diet that thought before."

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