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Post by dinosauria101 on Feb 23, 2020 21:01:03 GMT 5
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Post by DonaldCengXiongAzuma on Feb 24, 2020 4:23:44 GMT 5
While sloth bears have been known to repel tigers due to their defensively aggressive behaviour, I still believe a tigress can kill a sloth bear in a fight to death.
Sloth bears are actually the least mascular bears and having the weakest jaws in comparison to other bears despite being among the most aggressive.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Feb 24, 2020 21:29:29 GMT 5
Forgot to reply to this.
I think I'd favor the sloth bear at parity, they have very large teeth and claws and superior stamina/durability, etc. Though, it is pretty close.
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Post by brobear on Jun 26, 2020 20:16:42 GMT 5
Why tigress. We have only one fight caught on video of a tiger actually fighting with a sloth bear. The tiger is a big male Bengal tiger and the sloth bear is a she-bear. Ordinarily, a tiger will not fight with a bear who is facing him. But every now and then, a tiger is bold enough to fight. In this case, the bear was able to defend herself until the tiger's stamina ran dry and so the tiger retreated.
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Post by reeper on Oct 4, 2020 19:00:59 GMT 5
Tigress wins this fight all day.
If a tigress was able to kill a significantly heavier 170 kg brown bear (which is larger and more formidable than a sloth bear) with no problem, then a sloth bear would get destroyed too.
A large male sloth bear can put up a good fight though, but he would be simply outmatched by the tigress.
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Post by brobear on Oct 4, 2020 19:30:26 GMT 5
Yes; a tigress killed a juvenile male brown bear estimated at perhaps 170 kg ( 375 pounds ) as he was a very fat subadult bear. I have watched numerous tiger / female sloth bear confrontations. Very rarely will the tiger fight a bear who stands his ground. Of these numerous confrontations, there were two tigers who decided to fight and both were large prime male Bengal tigers. In one case, the tiger was unable to get past the she-bear's defenses. This tiger grew tired and walked away. In just one case, the big male tiger managed to kill the she-bear less than half his own weight.
The purpose of the big white "V" on the chests of the smaller Asiatic bears ( black bear, sun bear, and sloth bear ) is a warning sign to the big cats - "I can see you".
When a sloth bear panics and runs, then the tiger will give chase, catch, and kill the bear. There is no record of a tiger ever killing a bear bigger than himself. That juvenile brown bear was about 14 inches shorter than the adult tigress who killed him.
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Post by reeper on Oct 4, 2020 19:37:30 GMT 5
Yes; a tigress killed a juvenile male brown bear estimated at perhaps 170 kg ( 375 pounds ) as he was a very fat subadult bear. I have watched numerous tiger / female sloth bear confrontations. Very rarely will the tiger fight a bear who stands his ground. Of these numerous confrontations, there were two tigers who decided to fight and both were large prime male Bengal tigers. In one case, the tiger was unable to get past the she-bear's defenses. This tiger grew tired and walked away. In just one case, the big male tiger managed to kill the she-bear less than half his own weight. The purpose of the big white "V" on the chests of the smaller Asiatic bears ( black bear, sun bear, and sloth bear ) is a warning sign to the big cats - "I can see you". When a sloth bear panics and runs, then the tiger will give chase, catch, and kill the bear. There is no record of a tiger ever killing a bear bigger than himself. That juvenile brown bear was about 14 inches shorter than the adult tigress who killed him.
And this was NOT a "big" male tiger that killed this she-bear, it was a medium-sized male tiger, look:
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Post by brobear on Oct 5, 2020 14:41:27 GMT 5
My answer to your video: Quote: When a sloth bear panics and runs, then the tiger will give chase, catch, and kill the bear.
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Post by brobear on Oct 5, 2020 15:08:56 GMT 5
A tigress kills a bear that weighed 170 kg ( 375 pounds ). The bear measured 158 cm ( 62.20 inches - 5 feet 2 inches ). According to every highly educated knowledgeable poster on this topic over the years, including Peter and Warsaw ( who rarely agree with each other ) this was a juvenile bear. Also note: the tigress was never weighed. Therefore; nothing about this case can be confirmed. Also, Boogeyman, Warsaw has explained this to you countless times, but you were and are too juvenile to accept reality. *I find is humorous that the tiger fanboys ( I'm not referring to mature tiger enthusiasts ) can get so excited over an ambush killing of a juvenile bear or ( in some cases ) an actual mature she-bear.  *Average head-and-body length of Amur tigress: 172 cm ( 67.72 inches - 5 feet 7.72 inches ). |
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