ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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(06-30-2023, 06:19 PM)Apex Titan Wrote: es. Now we have two recent cases of male tigers killing and eating large adult male brown bears. The bear that Ochkarik killed and fully-consumed was described to be an "incredibly huge" brown bear and "giant", likely 400+kg. The adult male brown bear that Odyr killed was also described to be "impressive-sized". Both male tigers responsible for the killings were medium-sized (below average) males around 160-180 kg. These cases also confirm that male tigers will even sometimes hunt and kill significantly larger adult male brown bears.

There are no cases of the other way around, in fact, there's not a single reliable case in the last 30 years of a brown bear killing even a little tiger cub.

Back in 2009 - 2010, there was a report about two radio-collared tigresses (adult female and an 1.8 year old juvenile female cub) that were allegedly "killed" by a brown bear. But the experts found no shred of evidence, no signs or a single trace at the scene, of any struggle or killing that took place. All they found was teeth marks from a "large predator" on one of the tigress's collar's. They then concluded (guesswork) that a "possible cause" of the tigress's death could have been by a brown bear. But this was pure speculation based on no traces or evidence.

Both tigresses also died in an area and period when Amur tigers were severely suffering and some even dying from the canine distemper virus. One of the dead tigress's also showed signs of this disease prior to her death. So most likely, both tigresses died from the canine distemper virus and their already dead bodies were just scavenged by a brown bear. This would also explain why they found no injuries or wounds on the tigresses bodies that were inflicted by a brown bear.

Thank you for confirming it. So, let me correct my self, in this case there are 3 cases of adult male tigers killing/eating adult male brown bears, because we have these two modern cases and also the case reported by Mazak from Yankovsky. 

Very interesting. Reply