Tiger Predation on Bears

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Tiger kills and completely devours a big bear





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Tiger hunts and kills a male Brown bear

In the winter of 1982, the main forester of the reserve Kirst and A.D Saiko observed the pursuit by a tiger of a male brown bear for more than 500 meters. Attacking a bear running away along the valley of the key from the terrace of the narrow end of the water business, and without killing him, the tiger slipped to intercept the bear hundreds of meters from where it made a new attack from an ambush, trying to cling to his neck, the tiger managed to get a male bear as a result.





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From the documentary on animal FACTS - 'Everything You Didn't Know About Animals'...

"In Russia, some bears have taken to living in tree nests like frightened birds, and its all because of the biggest cat on earth."

Quote from Professor/Anthropologist - Dr Todd Sisotell:

"People are scared of bears, well bears are scared of tigers."

Quote from wildlife conservationist/biologist - Aletris Neils:

"You think of bears as top of the food-chain, but not where there's tigers. Tigers have been documented killing both Black bears and Brown bears where they co-exist with them."

Watch from the 27:30 mark:

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Here's by far one of the best accounts regarding Amur tigers vs Brown bears, from John Vaillant:

John Vaillant actually went to the Russian far east and interviewed many top authorities regarding tigers and bears, from renowned biologists (Dale Miquelle, J.Goodrich included) as well as other Russian biologists, hunters, natives, naturalists, locals, forest rangers etc..and they all told him that the tiger dominates the Brown bear and regularly attacks, kills and eats them. He was even told that tigers kill bears solely on principle, and will pick fights with Brown bears and tear them apart, and scatter their appendages across the battle ground.

"This is a book about Russians and their tigers, and much of the information in it comes from Russian sources, including many interviews."

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Tigers attack, kill and eat both Brown bears and Black bears on a regular basis. Russian Brown bears can reach 1000lbs in weight, in spite of this, they've been known to flee at the sight of a tiger. Tigers will pick fights with Brown bears - prosecute the battles - and tear the bears apart, limb from limb!...





Male tigers are vicious, vindictive and vengeful beasts, and will even kill bears solely on principle! ( Based on the observations of hunters and biologists )





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Here's a video of John Vaillant talking about the tigers dominance over the Russian grizzly bear. He's asked about tigers vs 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."

Go to the 11:29 mark:





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 regarded as the undisputed Lord and Master of the taiga.

Native Russian people conceive of the tiger as a supreme being and know it to be a "Consummate hunter" (Perfect hunter) and the undisputed lord of the taiga:





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From Bear Ecologist - Chris Morgan

During the filming of the documentary - "Siberian tiger quest" - he spent a lot of time camping out in the Russian far east, and he came to learn that tigers prey on Brown bears.

Quote from Chris Morgan:

They also eat some surprising animals - like brown bears! In one study, one male tiger ate more brown bears than anything else! Now thats one tough carnivore! I've worked with bears for many years, so this fact really stuck with me.

www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/siberian-tiger-quest-chris-morgans-siberian-tiger-photo-album/7907/

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Accounts from two renowned Russian biologists - V.G Heptner and A.A Sludskii


Tigers tackle bears much larger than themselves. Bears are generally afraid of tigers, and run away from their tracks:





Brown bears fall victim to tigers more often than Black bears. The LARGEST of the Brown bears were attacked and chased from their dens by tigers and forced to become rovers.





Tigress easily kills an entire Brown bear family ( Adult female and 3 cubs ) WITHOUT AMBUSH:





Tigress mauls and kills a larger 170kg Brown bear:






The body of the Brown bear that was killed and partially eaten by the tigress:





This is also proof that even female tigers are capable of killing larger bears than themselves.

Tigers live on Brown bear and Black bear meat - as well as other prey:





The adult tiger has no enemy in the animal world; Very rare indeed are instances of its death due to injuries inflicted by a male boar, buffalo or bear:





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A recent paper written by the Russian biologist: K.N. TKACHENKO ( Published in 2012 )

His study also showed that bears comprised a (31.2%) considerable proportion of the tigers diet:

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THE MANCHURIAN TIGER

By N.A. Baikov, a lifetime member of the Society of Study of the Manchurian territory, the author of the book "In mountains and woods of Manchuria", St.-Petersburg, 1915.





A rather big tiger would defeat a bear of almost the same weight. For this purpose, the predator tracks down the bear and makes an ambush, ordinarily on a rock or in wind-fallen trees, taking the side against the wind. Carelessly a bear slowly goes by an ambush, suspecting nothing, and the tiger rushes out on it from above, its one paw claws under the bear's chin, the other paw at the throat, and the tiger bites through the neck vertebrae. Sometimes the bear notices the danger in time, and not feeling able to struggle with this enemy, it escapes into the nearest tree, where the tiger cannot follow, being unable to climb the trees. It is possible that the tiger would patiently wait under the tree, till the bear is tired out of sitting in the tree and then it comes down, but more often in such cases the tiger would pretend to be leaving the place, whereas it would hide in a new ambush and watch the bear come down. In a word, there is no animal in the Manchurian taiga guaranteed against attack of the terrible predator, starting from the bear and finishing with the hare.

sixote-alin.ru/books/baikov/he1.html


Baikov also stated from 30 years of experience - that a tiger will mimic the mating call of a female Black bear in order to lure the male Black bear to him:




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Bears make up a part of the diet of many tigers. Sometimes tigers will imitate the sound of a bears prey to lure the unsuspecting bears towards them:



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The tigers survival is dependant on conserving their prey such as wild boar, sika deer and brown bears.

Tigers are known to imitate bear calls to lure them into an ambush, springing from a rock or fallen tree to seize the bears throat and sever its spinal column with a single bite.




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Not sure how much water this holds, but.....

bigcatrescue.org/himalayan-bear-killed-by-tiger/

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Tiger kills a large, full-grown male bear in a fight


The whole thing was perfectly clear: after a prolonged fight, the tiger had killed and eaten the bear.




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The Indian sloth bear does not escape the hunger of the tiger. Bears no doubt NOT infrequently fall victims. - Tiger badly mauls a large bear in a prolonged struggle, the bear had to be put down due to its severe injuries; but the bear could probably not put up much of a fight against so formidable and agile an antagonist:





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[mountainlord]

Tiger kills a male bear in a fight, then ate a part of him:





Tiger attacks, kills and eats a bear after a terrific battle:

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Account from hunter and wildlife naturalist - G.P Sanderson


Sanderson reported a case of a tiger that habitually slaughtered bears for food.




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This tiger had killed several bears, and twenty miles away another bear was also killed and partially devoured by this tiger:





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[mountainlord]

Appreciable numbers of bears must be killed by tigers, whether sloth bears, black bears or brown bears:




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Tigers are immensely strong. They are known to take on heavyweight adversaries, including bears. Tigers do not just attack the small Sloth bear - but they also take on the Himalayan black bears, and the much larger and more powerful Russian brown bears:





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One tiger dragged a full-grown brown bear out of her den, broke her neck, and consumed the carcass during the next week:





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Even fierce animals like adult Brown bears rank among the prey of the Siberian tiger:





Tigers were lured by the abundance of Brown bears and Black bears, as well as other prey like wild boar: