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Post by BruteStrength on Mar 30, 2019 20:27:43 GMT -5
Honestly, yes i would, for sure. But the real question should be, why is such a “ferocious and killer beast” like the tiger ambushes a 150 lb sun bear? Why cant he face him? Why should he? To prove a point? To who? Like I said ( unheard ) the tiger will win no metals, no trophies, no rewards, no applause. He just wants dinner. But the tiger is 450 pounds and the sun bear is only around 150 pounds. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2019 1:27:50 GMT -5
Sun bears also live in Malaysia and Borneo and tigers in Tha country are smaller than Bengal tigers but still larger than sun bears.
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 31, 2019 6:54:42 GMT -5
Sun bears also live in Malaysia and Borneo and tigers in Tha country are smaller than Bengal tigers but still larger than sun bears. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2019 9:17:07 GMT -5
If not mistaken the sun bears were taken when sleeping yets its still impressive for a python to kill a dangerous animal.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Sept 10, 2019 8:34:28 GMT -5
Bear Almanac by Gary Brown. Tiger - Tigers prey on bears in their respective habitat. The diet of some Siberian tigers is 5 to 8 percent Asiatic black bear, though the bears have been observed displacing tigers from their kills. Bengal tigers kill sun bears, though they will often avoid them, and they ambush or sneak up on a sloth bear. Brown bears are a more formidable challenge for a Siberian tiger, and most of those bears killed are young, orphaned, or bears too old or weak to defend against a tiger. wildfact.com/forum/topic-big-cat-and-bear-taleCredited to Brobear. |
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 3, 2019 21:12:22 GMT -5
Seems like pythons have killed and eaten some sun bears in the island of Borneo, mostly while sleeling like the account below.Predation on sun bears by reticulated python in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo The Malayan sun bear is the largest member of the order Carnivora on the island of Borneo. Few records exist of predation on this species beside humans, whereas accurate recordings of natural predation events can teach us about the ecology of the prey species. Here I report on an attempted and a successful predation of Malayan sun bears by a reticulated python, both in a lowland dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan. The successful predation was accomplished by a ~7 m reticulated python. The python preyed and swallowed an adult female sun bear, possibly weakened at the time due to a fruiting failure and nursing of a cub. Both predation events occurred at night, with the python probably surprising the bears during their sleep. . Pythons feed on various animals, including bears, primates, carnivores, and ungulates (Nettelbeck 1995;Fredriksson 2005; Khamcha and Sukumal 2009). Rahaman (1973) and Shine et al. (1998) have reported cases of colobine predation by pythons. ... Reticulated python (~7 m) lying in a small stream after having swallowed an adult female sun bear; the bulge on the left hand side in the python contains the sun bear.  www.researchgate.net/publication/228726707_Predation_on_sun_bears_by_reticulated_python_in_East_Kalimantan_Indonesian_Borneo
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 17, 2019 6:20:33 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Nov 17, 2019 7:08:22 GMT -5
I agree with you. However, I would like to add that Malayan and Brumese tiger's are much smaller than Bengal tigers yet sun bears do overlap in territory with sloth bears. Therefore, Bengal tigers might encounter sun bears.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 17, 2019 7:15:19 GMT -5
I agree with you. However, I would like to add that Malayan and Brumese tiger's are much smaller than Bengal tigers yet sun bears do overlap in territory with sloth bears. Therefore, Bengal tigers might encounter sun bears. |
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Post by brobear on Nov 17, 2019 7:53:09 GMT -5
I don't think that sloth bears live in either Borneo or Sumatra.  |
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Nov 17, 2019 8:32:21 GMT -5
I don't think that sloth bears live in either Borneo or Sumatra.
.Sun bears are found in the tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia ranging from northeastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam to southern Yunnan Province in China, and on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_bearSun bears live in northeastern India and Bangaladesh, probably overlap with sloth bears. |
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Nov 17, 2019 8:34:12 GMT -5
I agree with you. However, I would like to add that Malayan and Brumese tiger's are much smaller than Bengal tigers yet sun bears do overlap in territory with sloth bears. Therefore, Bengal tigers might encounter sun bears. I think Malayan tiger vs sun bear is similar to Bengal tiger vs sloth bear. Both Asian bears are able to repel the respective tigers in their territory. The tigers are capable of killing these asian bears but gives them a wide breath in general. |
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 17, 2019 8:42:57 GMT -5
I don't think that sloth bears live in either Borneo or Sumatra. |
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Post by brobear on Nov 17, 2019 8:45:49 GMT -5
I don't think that sloth bears live in either Borneo or Sumatra. No. Sun bears live in Borneo and Sumatra but not in India: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_bear#Distribution_and_habitat Distribution of subspecies The Malayan sun bear (H. m. malayanus (Raffles, 1821)) occurs on the Asian mainland and Sumatra. The Bornean sun bear (H. m. euryspilus (Horsfield, 1825)) occurs only on the island of Borneo.  |
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 17, 2019 8:50:04 GMT -5
Yes brobear....Sun bears are in India also, lol.
India has four species of bears : Asiatic Black, Sloth, Sun and Himalayan Brown Bear
The Sun Bear Helarctos malayanus is mostly distributed in South-East Asia. In India it occurs in the North-eastern region, though it is not common. It is the smallest of the eight bear species found across the globe. The Sun Bear is threatened by trade both for pets and to provide various products. IUCN lists the Sun Bear as Vulnerable.
www.wwfindia.org/about_wwf/enablers/traffic/resources/species_in_focus/bears/
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Post by brobear on Nov 17, 2019 8:54:33 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 17, 2019 8:56:30 GMT -5
From the own wiki Sun bear page:
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT
Sun bears are found in the tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia ranging from northeastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam to southern YunnanProvince in China, and on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. They now occur very patchily through much of their former range, and have been extirpated from many areas, especially in mainland Southeast Asia. Their current distribution in eastern Myanmar and most of Yunnan is unknown.[1] The bear’s habitat is associated with tropical evergreen forests.[10]
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 17, 2019 8:58:49 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Nov 17, 2019 9:02:08 GMT -5
www.worldatlas.com/articles/where-do-sun-bears-live.html Given their large size and tree-dwelling behavior, an adult sun bear has very few predators in its natural environment. Primary predators include tigers and other large cats, although sun bears have a unique way of escaping attacks from these carnivorous animals. They have loose skin around the neck that enables the bear to turn around or spin, and bite its attacker. However, sun bear cubs are more vulnerable, and are preyed on by many jungle predators, including large birds of prey. Currently, the greatest threat to the sun bear is the loss of habitat due to deforestation. In regions where agricultural plantations have encroached on their territory, some sun bears have been known to raid palm plantations, eating the young shoots and resulting in confrontations with farmers
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Post by brobear on Nov 17, 2019 9:05:01 GMT -5
I can find no data on sun bear interaction with other bear species. |
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