Tiger Predation

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Here's a scientific study indicating that tigers in southeast Asia commonly prey on bears (sun bears & Asiatic black bears) and are major predators of bears throughout their entire distribution in the wild.

"In both sites bears were common food of tigers, whereas they were rarely if ever consumed by dholes."

"This indicates that, even when exposed to the same availability of bears, tigers consume significantly more bears than do dholes. This also suggests that consumption of bears by tigers was due to predation instead of scavenging, because both tigers and dholes would have been expected to consume bears in similar amounts if bear carcasses had been available on the sites."

"Tigers, in particular, might be the most important predator of sun bears on mainland Southeast Asia and Sumatra, given that bear remains were found in all sites within Southeast Asia where their diet was determined, and in 2 of those sites bears were common prey items."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._sun_bears

Indo-chinese tigers and Sumatran tigers also regularly prey on bears (Sun bears & Asiatic black bears). Amur tigers regularly prey on brown bears and black bears. And sloth bears are hunted, killed and eaten by Bengal tigers too. Which clearly shows and proves that the tiger and bear co-existence is a clear predator-prey relation.

Six sloth bears killed and eaten by one tiger:

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There are several instances of tigers predating on sloth bears. A full-grown Malayan sun bear was killed and devoured by a tiger. Some of these authors were told by their guides and locals, that these incidences are NOT uncommon:

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https://archive.org/details/journalofbom...+Volume+90


Another video of tiger T-120 dragging his large sloth bear kill:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aj-D_-ijEyU Reply