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Tiger killing adult male brown bears
By: The Solo hunter Date: September 23, 2018, 4:47 am
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Credits to 'Mountain lord' for sharing this much important
information!
Last Big Cats by Erwin A. Bauer (quoted):
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"Hornocker and Quigley bring their great experience with North
american mountain lions to their Siberian tiger investigations.
Recently on the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve, he and Quigley
discovered a similar situation. A 400-pound (180kg) male Amur
tiger had developed an even stranger preference for just one
prey: Brown bears. Although red deer and other game were readily
available, this cat stalked and ate bears almost twice as heavy
as itself. The biologists tracked the tiger through the snow to
eight separate bear kills, all of which seemed to have been
accomplished without great effort, except one. In that kill,
there was evidence of a vicious battle with bits of bear hide
strewn over a wide area, but the tiger had won”...
Huge adult Brown bear (Said to be a large male) killed and
partially eaten by a tiger:
HTML https://youtu.be/qD49KJWsk-Y
You can clearly see its a large brown bear, because even though
its PARTIALLY EATEN, it still looks
massive:[IMG]
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Here's an account from the great biologist, V.Mazak, from his
book: "Der Tiger" of a male tiger that killed and ate a very
large male Brown
bear:[IMG]
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This is the Sungari river Amur tiger, shot by hunter Jankowski,
in Manchuria. This male tiger was reported to have killed and
eaten a huge male brown bear, a few days before it was
shot:[IMG]
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This is the English translation of the German writing/paragraph
marked in red on the page.
Mazak added:
"To complete the information on this giant tiger, I should
perhaps mention that Jankowski wrote that the tiger had killed
and eaten a very large male brown bear a few days before he was
shot, of which only a leg and the head, found by Jankowski,
remained
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The huge male brown bear was killed and eaten by the tiger in
the SUMMER of July 1943. Again, the bear wasn't in hibernation,
it was killed in summer time, where scientific studies have
shown thats when tigers MAINLY hunt and kill brown bears.
Here’s a sketch from Mazak, depicting a tiger killing a male
brown
bear:[IMG]
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K.G. Abramov also reported on a male tiger who had killed a
large male Schatun' in the 1958-1959 winter (In the Central
Sikhote-Alin Mountains).
Account from Russian wildlife Naturalist, Rakov, who also
documented a case of a tiger that killed and ate a LARGE male
Brown bear: (Top
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Here's the translation to the Russian text:
"In the basins of the river Tahobe, Kuznetsova in the winter of
1956/57 and 1958/59. There appeared two tigers, who bypassed:
this river, went to the west, over the pass of the Sikhote-Alin.
In December 1959 on the river. A light tiger killed a large
brown bear, and lived near him for about 10 days, until it was
eaten, and then left to the south along the coast-sea (AE
Karavanov)."...[IMG]
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The large brown bear was referred to as 'him', which clearly
indicates it was a large MALE Brown bear that was killed and
eaten by the tiger.
Large adult male brown bears are NOT immune from tiger attacks,
as there's several cases proving that, and there's definitely
way more cases out there of large male grizzlies getting killed
and eaten by tigers, which us humans don't witness.
Vladimir Putins tiger, released in the wild, kills and devours a
bear:
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This same tiger named 'Boris' killed around 3-4 brown bears on
record, and he's only a JUVENILE tiger.
HTML https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/putins-tiger-kills-bear-48137
Here's an email from one of the top renowned Amur tiger
biologists, Linda Kerley, on her experience with tigers and
brown bears:
"I've been studying tiger food habits for the past 14 years and
found several bears killed and eaten by tigers. Some tigers
specialize in eating bears, and they will kill both Asiatic
black bears and LARGER BROWN BEARS. We radio-tracked one male
tiger that ate bears all summer and lost weight in the winter,
because he couldn't find his favourite food. Recently, people
have been killing more bears, because of an increased demand for
bear feet and gall bladders and I worry that this will effect
tigers as well because bears are an important food source for
tigers in summer"...
"I've seen tigers prey on all shapes and sizes of black bears
and up to the largest and healthiest female brown
bears":[IMG]
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Note: In her email, the only tigers she mentions that large
bears harass are only female tigers and cubs, not a single adult
male tiger, period. She also confirmed that tigers do kill
larger brown bears and that bears are an important food source
for tigers, during SUMMER, when bears are at their full
strength!
Renowned Russian biologist/naturalist, Sysoev, witnessed several
fights between tigers and brown bears in the wild, and had alot
of experience with them, and when Sysoev was director of the
Chabarowsk Natural History Museum in Russia, a diorama was
constructed. It shows a male brown bear and a male Amur tiger
engaged in battle. And as you can clearly see, the tiger is in
the more dominant position, biting the male bear in his
neck:[IMG]
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The model was constructed, based off usual eye-witness
observations of fights between tigers and brown bears, and the
tiger is clearly depicted as winning the fight.
Here's a video of John Vaillant stating that tigers dominate,
attack, kill and eat Brown bears on a regular basis:
Go to the 11:29 mark, and he's asked about tigers and big
Russian bears/Grizzly bears and he states the following: "The
tiger has a inborn sense of total dominance over its domain.
Russian brown bears are the equivalent of our Grizzly, the tiger
attacks, kills and eats them on a regular basis, i've seen video
of a tiger charging a helicopter. So they have this inborn sense
that there's nothing out there, thats bigger and badder then me,
and they act on that"....
HTML https://youtu.be/1-l9fWc1ldw
Here's by far one of the best accounts, regarding Amur tigers vs
Brown bears. John Vaillant actually went to the Russian Far-East
and personally interviewed many renowned EXPERTS, BIOLOGISTS
(Dale Miquelle, J.Goodrich included) NATURALISTS, FOREST
RANGERS, NATIVES, HUNTERS, LOCALS etc...and they all told him
that the tiger completely dominates, attacks and kills the Brown
bear and Black bear on a regular basis.
Everything Vaillant stated in his book, was based off first-hand
authentic accounts and testimonies from all the TOP AUTHORITIES
on this subject. He was also told by all these people, that the
tiger is widely acknowledged and considered to be the undisputed
Lord and Master of the taiga:
"Tigers attack and kill both Brown bears and Black bears on a
regular basis. Russian brown bears belong to the same species as
the American grizzly and can reach 1000lbs in weight, in spite
of this, they have been known to flee at the sight of a tiger.
Biologist Lev Kaplanov observed a very large Brown bear run away
from tiger tracks. Tigers pick fights with bears - and prosecute
the battles - and proceed to tear the bears apart limb from
limb, and scatter their appendages across the battle ground." (
John Vaillant )."
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Here's a Russian text book scan posted by Peter on Wildfact, of
a fight between an Amur tiger and a Brown bear, in which the
tiger killed the bear...
A hunter from Vladivostok saw crows c terrible wounds and the
disfigured tiger, moving off like a drunk, didn’t even bother
with the fresh spoils of the kill."
( Page 23 )...
It also states: "All the researchers studying tiger kills point
to a single cause of death: A bite through the neck vertebrae at
the base of the skull. The predator can even kill bears this
way. It deftly makes its approach and with a single bite, the
victim is rendered motionless. Do what you will, the victim is
not going to recover, the power of the jaw is unimaginable "
(Page 9)
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