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Post by Montezuma on Sept 7, 2024 7:49:49 GMT -5
Account of a huge brown bear beating multiple tiger at the same time! - Two Hunter brothers witnessed
Vsevolod Sysoev On Tigers
From the book: Sysoev, Vsevolod. On Tigers. Essay. Khabarovsk, 1967. From the second volume of "The Amur tiger, speculation, legends and facts".
Starts at page 293
"One time, my brother Alexei and I went on a hunting trip. Back then, we didn’t have to go far. Right behind the village, there were dense forests: mostly oak interspersed with cedar. Every year there was a harvest, whether of nuts or acorns, which was the primary food for the animals.
We went into the nearest ravine and set up camp. The next day, we went out to scout. I noticed fresh tiger tracks, not just one, but five: three old ones and two young ones, and following their tracks was a brown bear. So, we decided to follow them to see what would happen.
We walked about two kilometers and saw that the tigers had killed a wild boar, eaten it, and moved on, while the bear had picked up all the leftovers. It had even gnawed the skull clean. As we followed the stream, with one bank being gentle and the other steeply sloping, we saw that under the cliff, basking in the sun, the tigers were sprawled out. Three were basking in the sun, while the other two were playing with each other. We stopped and watched the tigers through the trees. I was about to take a shot, but my brother whispered, "Wait, the bear is coming towards the tigers."
I looked up at the top of the hill and indeed saw a huge bear calmly descending. It seemed not to notice the tigers and was heading straight for them.
We stood there wondering if the bear would see the tigers and give off a scent. As expected, the tigers heard the bear before he saw them, and they jumped up, crouching down. The bear came down from the slope like a thunderbolt, and a battle began between them. The tigers would pounce on the bear, and then he would come down from above. They raised such a roar that it seemed the trees were shaking from it. Although the bear was not as agile as the striped ones, he acted skillfully with his front paws and struck so hard that not just one, but two tigers would be thrown away into the bushes from his blows. I don’t know how that battle would have ended, but our hunting passion flared up: I aimed and shot—bang!—at the largest tiger. My brother also opened fire. We were shooting, but the animals paid no attention, becoming even more enraged, and it seemed they didn’t hear our shots. We fired off a magazine; it seemed two tigers lay motionless, but the fight continued, with bushes cracking and young trees swaying as the beasts collided with them. We loaded another magazine and continued to fire at the tigers. When we looked, the bear had fallen into the snow: either he stumbled onto a bullet himself or was hit by a ricochet. We gave the tigers one last, final salvo and started descending into the stream. We sat on some fallen branches in the stream, took a break, then reloaded our rifles and carefully approached the site of the animal fight. The bear was noticeable from afar by its blackness against the snow. We had never killed a bear like that before or since. Believe it or not, it weighed more than forty poods (around 650 kg). We skinned it just to show the villagers what kind of bears there were. We also collected the skins of four tigers near the bear."
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Post by Montezuma on Sept 7, 2024 8:03:45 GMT -5
Some more interesting information here:
From V.E. Kostoglod 1981. Experience of long-term tracking of a wandering brown bear in the Sikhote-Alin // Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. Dept. of Biology. Vol. 86. Issue
"Given the relatively low overall population of tigers, the death of individual tigers due to brown bears can significantly impact the population's state. Since in such encounters it is more likely that weakened individuals, including injured ones, will perish, it is possible that the activity of the brown bear helps eliminate potential man-eaters from the tiger population. Indeed, in the Russian Far East, where tigers have long coexisted with brown bears, cases of man-eating were always rare or not recorded at all over long periods. In other parts of the range, a different picture is observed (Corbett, 1957).
An account of bear defending it's prey successfully from a tiger:
V.E. kostoglod, Group behavior of animals Dokl. participants of the II All-Union. conf. on animal behavior 1977
Page 187 (not the full page unfortunately)
"At the diachkovsky winter, we were able to trace a confrontation between a bear and a tiger, which returned to its prey. The bear was probably sleeping..............the half-eaten carcass of an igor (wapiti??) killed the day before by a tiger when he calmly approached his prey to 15 meters. Having discovered the close presence of the tiger, the bear rushed towards him. The tiger made 5 large jumps to the side, turned around and stood for some time, imprinting tail blows in the snow. The bear also stopped.......................broke away from the enemy leaning his front dips on a snow-covered bed. After standing in these positions, the animals dispersed, the bear stayed with the tiger's prey."
The book:
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The page: Part 1: books.google.dz/books/content?id=JTEcAAAAMAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA187&img=1&pgis=1&dq=%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8C&sig=ACfU3U2GUvPWeW_k-B49LlZ5jdaxC4_5ZA&edge=0 Part 2: books.google.dz/books/content?id=JTEcAAAAMAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA187&img=1&pgis=1&dq=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%83%D1%82%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B5&sig=ACfU3U2EdIRly6aKuoMI_Xtdb2dnejrfBQ&edge=0 Part 3: books.google.dz/books/content?id=JTEcAAAAMAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA187&img=1&pgis=1&dq=%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C&sig=ACfU3U2GX06YMRyuDI-0JX9DiejWjVI3Mg&edge=0
Kostoglod, V.E. (1976). Особенности зимней жизнедеятельности бурого медведя-шатуна на Среднем Сихотэ-Алине [Features of the winter activity of a brown bear-shatun in the Middle Sikhote-Alin]. In Групповое поведение животных [Group Behavior of Animals]. Moscow: Nauka. pp. 185-187.
Translation:
V.E. Kostoglod
Sikhote-Alin State Reserve
In the Sikhote-Alin Reserve, from January 8 to April 5, 1975, with some interruptions, tracking was conducted on the activities of a large male brown bear, known as a "shatun." A total of 200 km was covered following its tracks. The snow depth throughout the winter remained between 20-30 cm and only reached 40 cm on northern slopes by the end of February. The diet of the "shatun" consisted exclusively of animal food, obtained through hunting and scavenging. The territory where the "shatun" spent most of the winter extended 40 km in length and 35 km in width. Within this area, two sections of 200 and 500 square km were identified, on each of which the bear spent significant time, repeatedly appearing in the same places. The transition from one section to the other, covering 30 km, took 10-12 days, crossing a watershed at an altitude of 1200 m above sea level. On this stretch, two "tables" of the predator with remains of red deer were found. The density of large ungulates in the areas was approximately the same—6.2-6.5 red deer tracks and 3-4.2 boar tracks per 10 km of the bear's path, while on the transition route, there were 1.3 boar tracks and 14.7 red deer tracks. Tigers permanently live in both areas.
Three main types of bear movements were distinguished by their purpose, each defining specific aspects of its behavior:
Search movement (116 km or 58% of the total tracked path). The bear moved at a steady pace, overcoming heights of 600 to 1200 m, crossing the tracks of ungulates, their digs, and bedding sites; sometimes it followed tracks for 50-70 m before abandoning them and continuing its uneven path.
Predator tracking with the intent to take over their prey (44 km, 22% of the total tracked path). When encountering tracks of lynx, especially tiger, the bear generally began tracking them, even old ones, often following in their footsteps. Five instances of the bear tracking a tiger and three instances of tracking lynx were noted. No attempts to catch up with the predator were observed. The longest trace of a bear following a tiger, not fully tracked by us, was 22 km.
Pursuit of ungulates (40 km - 20% of the total track). Two hunts for wild boars, two for red deer, and two for musk deer were tracked. The pursuit always began at the moment of detecting the animal, sometimes preceded by a brief tracking of fresh tracks. Unlike the "passive" following of predator tracks, in the pursuit of ungulates, the bear demonstrated high abilities as an active hunter, wearing down the prey. Below is an example characterizing the bear's hunting behavior.
Upon disturbing a large boar from its bedding in the upper reaches of the Chashevito stream, the bear immediately gave chase. The snow was 40 cm deep, and both animals left deep trenches. After making an arc along the upper forks of the stream, the boar headed down, sticking to the lower part of the northern slope. Near the mouth, it descended into the valley and turned south along the lower terraces of the left slope of the Kuruma river basin. The bear rarely followed the track for more than two hundred meters. Over a distance of 14 km of pursuit, it made 13 detours and short cuts along the boar's path. The length of some of these detours reached 1.5-2.5 km. The predator at this time deviated from the prey's trail by up to 400 m.
Moving at a walk and trot parallel to the boar's movement and apparently determining its location by sound, the bear would gallop to intercept. The boar, without changing direction, shifted from a trot to a gallop and in all cases outpaced the bear. During the chase, the bear quickly fell behind, switched to walking, and deviated from the track into a new detour maneuver. The hunt ended unsuccessfully. Having significantly outpaced the boar during the detour, the bear closed the loop, and not finding its tracks, ceased the pursuit. Using similar techniques, the "shatun" crushed a two-year-old boar in the Isakovsky stream after an 18 km pursuit and an adult red deer male in the Goremikin stream after a 5 km chase. Of the 7 inspected "tables" of the "shatun," 2 consisted of its own prey, 2 of tiger's prey, 1 of lynx's prey, and 2 of carrion.
The "shatun" stayed with large prey for several days, consuming it completely, including the ribs, spine, and skull bones. It made its den nearby, under the root of a standing tree or in a small depression near the remains of the carcass. It went to drink from key water sources no more than two hundred meters away. If there was no water, it ate snow. Each of these multi-year camps was surrounded by piles of predator's excrement within a radius of up to 10 m. The "shatun" behaved similarly at the remains of tiger or lynx meals.
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Now one might ask that why did I highlighted the 'lynx and tiger's text so prominently? Because there's a reason; observe that the shatun bear treated or behaved to tiger tracks in the same way as it did to lynx track (as the quote says), meaning while tracking tigers, shatun bears feel the same ease as in the case of lynx tracking showing how fearless they are of tigers; we know lynx is a mouse to a bear.
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Post by Montezuma on Sept 7, 2024 8:06:58 GMT -5
The text actually comes from this source:К.Г. Абрамов, В.К. Абрамов, научные сотрудники Дальневосточного филиала Академии наук СССР Краткий отчет о проделанной работе по учету тигра в Приморском крае. 1958–1959 гг. Государственный архив РФ. Рукопись. Публикуется впервые.
K.G. Abramov, V.K. Abramov (V.K. is the son), Research associates of the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences Brief report on the work conducted on tiger census in the Primorsky Krai. 1958–1959. State Archive of the Russian Federation. Manuscript. (Page 207). Officially, here's a more accurate translation :
Large brown bears feel relatively safe when encountering a tiger, and in winter, there are even cases of large bears pursuing young tigers and tiger cubs. In the winter of 1954, a brown bear pursued a young tiger for 1.5 months. The bear was eventually killed in an ambush set on a fresh tiger trail (Trubitsyn).
Attacks by bears on large tigers are extremely rare. We know of only one case where a large tiger was killed by a bear. In 1913, along the Sinancha River, a large brown bear tracked a big tiger. The bear caught up with and crushed the tiger but did not touch it afterward, and then left (Kyalendzyuga).
In some sense, the brown bear can be considered as a feeding competitor of the tiger. Wild boar, red deer, and moose often become prey for the bear."
Furthermore the way they structured it makes to think it’s an adult tiger. They were talking about young tigers. Then, they say they know of a case where a large tiger gets killed.
If it was not an adult, maybe they would have not have mentioned it was a large tiger. So there are more than 60% chances clearly appearing that the tiger was 'an adult male'.
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Post by Montezuma on Sept 7, 2024 8:11:13 GMT -5
From Zemli͡a i li͡udigeograficheskiĭ kalendar 1958.
(translates to "Earth and People: Geographical Calendar 1958." It is a geographical calendar published in 1958, featuring information about geography, maps, and significant geographical events or facts relevant to that year.
Page 233: translation. Chapter BEAR'S ENCOUNTER.
"Several people returned from the Shuhi Pakto reserve in the Khabarovsk Krai, where they were harvesting bark from the birch trees. Six kilometers from the village of Razdolnoye, they entered dense thickets. Suddenly, the horses sensed danger, snorted, and stopped. They must have sensed a wild animal, so the bark harvesters armed themselves and began carefully scanning the area. It was quiet in the taiga. The people headed towards a spring. Here, in the thickets of young growth, they saw a dead tiger. The animal was torn apart by some predator. At the site of the struggle, the harvesters found tufts of bear fur. It immediately became clear: two experienced animals, a tiger and a bear, had encountered each other on the taiga trail. A fierce battle ensued between them, and the bear emerged victorious. The bear's tracks led into the taiga, and the people decided to find the 'clubfoot' bear. Dogs found the bear and immediately attacked it. However, the predator turned out to be strong and agile. Before the hunters could reach the scene of the fight, it fatally wounded two dogs and disappeared into the taiga thickets."
The book:
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Post by Montezuma on Sept 7, 2024 8:16:04 GMT -5
TWO MORE BIOLOGISTS THAT STATED AMUR TIGERS COMPLETELY AVOID ADULT MALE BROWN BEARS:
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