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Tigers of the High Himalayas
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Tiger from Eastern Himalayas:
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  *This image is copyright of its original author wwf_tigers - Check out the first ever recorded photo of a tiger in Samtse, Bhutan! Using remote camera traps local authorities were able to photograph this tiger at an altitude of 2775m. Tigers can now be found throughout the country. Head to our story to find out why this sighting is important: https://tigers.panda.org/news_and_storie...se_survey/  *This image is copyright of its original author
About the Snow Leopard and Tiger interaction. I am 100% sure that a Tiger and a Snow Leopard have definitely come across each other at some point because Tigers have been spotted in the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary at the same elevations where Snow Leopards live. This is not it. There are more such places where Snow Leopards and Tigers most certainly coexist, at least temporarily.
If anyone has anything about Snow Leopards and Tigers interacting, please share it here. And does anyone know if a Tiger could encounter a Himalayan Brown Bear. I wonder if Tigers and Himalayan Brown Bears have ever met. Himalayan Bengal Tigers have certainly met Black Bears before and I have read of Himalayan Bengal Tiger killing a Himalayan Black Bear before but it would be even more interesting to hear about a similar interaction with a Himalayan Brown Bear. 
Snow leopard kill Himalayan brown bear
"A two-year old brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus) was killed and partially eaten by a snow leopard in Kazahkstan, but this must be quite unusual" (Heptner and Sludskii 1992) There is an account where a snow leopard killed a two year old Himalayan brown bear but that is the only interaction I can find. The Himalayan brown bear is the only brown bear subspecies that gets dominated by a black bear. Therefore, I am certain the tiger will consider even a male Himalayan brown bear as prey should they come across each other. An account: *This image is copyright of its original author https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TXI-AQAAIAAJ&q=Steppe+brown+bear+weights&dq=Steppe+brown+bear+weights&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&redir_esc=y Also it is going to be extremely hard to see interactions between tigers and Himalayan brown bears as the latter is extremely rare. "Common in Kashmir, that the brown bear follows the black one at a respectful distance when the last one goes on a faraging expedition towards the nuttrees, and picks up the nuts which the black bear drops accidentally" (06-21-2022, 04:41 PM)GreenGrolar Wrote: Snow leopard kill Himalayan brown bear Fascinating. The Bear could’ve been almost 1.5-2 times the size of the Snow Leopard and the Snow Leopard still killed it. What an amazing predator. And I wasn’t aware of the size of Himalayan Brown Bears but it seems they are much smaller than the Russian and North American Brown Bears. Bengal Tigers would certainly consider them prey.
@GreenGrolar Himalayan Brown Bears are not THAT small. They weigh close to 200 kilos in winters (some males weigh more just before hibernation). On average, Himalayan Brown Bears match upto Himalayan Black Bear in size and weight. They are very timid and shy animals who like to avoid conflict.
Even a couple of Tibetan foxes can shoo Himalayan Brown Bear away from a carcass. They are omnivores but most of their diet is vegetarian. |
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