Amur Tigers

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Quote:Anyway without dismissing the other info, have you notice this section of the account?

Boria is also very "manly", he did not leave, but stayed to take care of his "wife and children", and was very conscientious. It's not that he has no conscience like other Siberian tigers. He slipped away after the wedding night, and he didn't care about the lives of his children.

It is said that a brown bear came to attack Svetraya just after giving birth. Boria stepped forward to fight the brown bear. During the battle, the brown bear slapped it with its bear paw. Boris was almost killed by the brown bear. When Svetraya rushed up, the two tigers drove the brown bear away together.

I don't believe this account at all. Firstly, it is almost impossible for any person (hunter, biologist, zoologist etc) to eyewitness an interaction between a tiger and bear in the vast Russian taiga. Let alone a fight between a brown bear, male tiger and tigress! Such people able to eyewitness any interactions between tigers and bears are extremely lucky and very, very few.

Even the indigenous peoples and locals, in most cases (99% of the time), just find the remains of a bear after being hunted by a tiger, or killed in a fight by a tiger. They will find the ground trampled, broken tree's, blood splattered all over, tufts of fur etc.... but to actually eyewitness such a fight, would be in very exceptional cases.

The story also sounds very outlandish. A brown bear cannot almost kill a tiger with a single slap of its paw, that's ridiculous and completely unrealistic. There's also no mention of any eyewitness, nothing. 

Quote:Also someone has got another email:

Email from WCS.

Translations

Syed mojiz ali Tirmizi:-

"Hi, please reply me as i am a great fan of your work. Can a male brown bear beat a male tiger?"

WCS:-

"Thank you for your interest in wild animals. Typically, tigers do not associate with large bears and do not engage in open combat, as the outcome will be unknown. Both the tiger and the bear can win, or both can end up dying from their wounds in the fight.

We hope that we have answered your question.

All the best,
ANO Society for the Conservation of Wild Animals."

This email just confirms what we already know. Male tigers and male brown bears, in general, avoid serious conflicts (fights) with each other. This is not news.

Of course tigers don't generally go around engaging in open combat with large bears, although sometimes they do. However, hunting is different from "open combat" (fights). And as reliable information, data and accounts from biologists confirm, tigers do hunt and kill large bears.

Dima proved that a tiger can easily destroy a large brown bear of similar-size instantly by ambush. Tigers have more easier and efficient ways of killing large bears than open combat. Although even Dima killed a large brown bear sow in a head-on fight in one case. So it depends on the situation.

Also, keep in mind, the problem with these type of emails is that we don't know who's responding (A biologist? zoologist? Unqualified person?), also the question was "Can a male brown bear beat a male tiger?", for all we know, the person (who responded) could have easily assumed that 'Montezuma' is a bear fanboy and they didn't want to offend him by favouring the tiger over the bear. So they gave a more neutral answer. I'm not saying this is definitely the case, but its possible.

Emails like this are short, vague and do not present the full picture of tiger and bear interactions. The best way to know is to read articles, scientific papers/studies, or other sources from the authorities on this topic. - Biologists, researchers and zoologists. Reply