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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 9, 2020 16:35:20 GMT -5
Brobear, have you counted this video here? 3 tigresses killing a sloth bear with a clear category 3-kill by chase? I just checked this whole thread and this video was never posted.
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Post by theundertaker45 on Sept 10, 2020 4:08:18 GMT -5
I didn't know that tigers form coalitions during their hunts; could it be that it was a mother with her two nearly grown cubs?
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Post by brobear on Sept 10, 2020 4:21:26 GMT -5
I didn't know that tigers form coalitions during their hunts; could it be that it was a mother with her two nearly grown cubs? I had the same thoughts. Perhaps siblings separated from Mom but not yet from each other?
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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 10, 2020 4:56:42 GMT -5
I didn't know that tigers form coalitions during their hunts; could it be that it was a mother with her two nearly grown cubs? Most likely yeah. Tigers will sometimes socialize. a group of tigers is called a streak, and a group of tigers hunting or sharing a meal is called an ambush.
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Post by malikc6 on Sept 18, 2020 9:38:48 GMT -5
Would any of you back a 300 lb Bengal tigress over an adult male sloth bear weighing 400 lbs?
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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 18, 2020 9:44:07 GMT -5
Would any of you back a 300 lb Bengal tigress over an adult male sloth bear weighing 400 lbs? Hell no, not me. In a fair face to face fight, sloth bear wins 6/7 out of 10 times.
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Post by brobear on Sept 27, 2020 3:45:34 GMT -5
news.mongabay.com/2020/09/the-vanishing-trails-of-sri-lankas-sloth-bears-commentary/ Predator-less living Sri Lanka’s distinct subspecies of the sloth bear, M. u. inoratus, has no predator here, though in India, tigers are known to kill sloth bears, some even becoming habitual bear killers. Some tigers are said to have evolved a specific procedure for the kill, causing a disabling injury with a surprise attack, then retreating to a safe distance while the unfortunate bear exhausts itself struggling to escape. Once weakened, the tiger gives the coup de grâce with no danger to itself, before making its meal. These tigers appear to be well aware of the ferocious defense that sloth bears can put up and which can result in disabling injuries to themselves. Injuries of that nature spell doom to humans. Leopards, too, are said to kill sloth bears in India, but I have no knowledge of actual kills in Sri Lanka, though many confrontations are recorded.
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Post by malikc6 on Sept 27, 2020 3:50:30 GMT -5
Do we have ANY video evidence of a leopard killing a sloth bear?
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Post by brobear on Sept 27, 2020 4:10:28 GMT -5
Do we have ANY video evidence of a leopard killing a sloth bear? No. But we do have photo-evidence and story of a sloth bear displacing a leopard from his kill. Astonishingly, while the leopard hissed and snarled, trying to bluff the bear, the old sloth bear just totally ignored the big cat as if he were not even there.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Sept 27, 2020 7:17:29 GMT -5
There was an account where a sloth bear and a leopard killed each other but the bear was only a sub adult.
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Post by brobear on Sept 27, 2020 12:55:32 GMT -5
There was an account where a sloth bear and a leopard killed each other but the bear was only a sub adult. Killing babies or fragile elderly don't doesn't put a feather in anyone's cap.
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Post by brobear on Oct 26, 2020 9:54:17 GMT -5
From Warsaw: While I agree that prime adult male tiger is to much for any sloth bears,but the tigress is much smaller . So the verdict is "Bengal Tiger defeats Sloth Bear, Sloth Bear defeats ( kill after long battle) Bengal Tigress,more often that not.............
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Nov 7, 2020 7:50:51 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Nov 7, 2020 8:23:57 GMT -5
Fantastic find OldGreenOne. Here again we have a sloth bear able to fight-off a prime male Bengal tiger. This time probably a male sloth bear; but defending himself after being ambushed.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 7, 2020 10:12:51 GMT -5
Reply #212: great find TheGreen. The tiger's name was Khali, and he was the dominant male of that region. The tiger attacked by ambush but then retreated when the bear fought back, like always, not surprising.
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Post by theundertaker45 on Nov 7, 2020 14:10:45 GMT -5
Very good find, OldGreenVulture! Sloth bears definitely aren't easy to kill; even for a male Bengal tiger the robust skeleton paired with the shaggy fur can be an obstacle hindering the big cat of achieving a stealthy and quick assassination.
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Post by brobear on Nov 10, 2020 14:01:03 GMT -5
Reply #175 - The blood spread over the tiger's chest is not bear-blood.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 10, 2020 15:23:42 GMT -5
Reply #175 - The blood spread over the tiger's chest is not bear-blood. How are you sure of this?
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Post by brobear on Nov 10, 2020 15:32:13 GMT -5
Sloth bear / Bengal tiger The blood is on the tiger's chest. The sloth bear was facing the tiger. And it is the tiger who is retreating.
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Post by brobear on Nov 18, 2020 5:39:35 GMT -5
Most of your "Animal Face-Off Sites" have their "Club Rule" which states that each and every face-off topic is a "fight to the death" where both or all participants have the same agenda, "to kill his adversary". On these ( ridiculous ) face-off sites, every fight posted is a game. In the natural world, animal fights are not games. The "club rules" given on those face-off sites do not exist. The natural world is real. Each animal has his or her own personal agenda. When a tiger goes hunting, his agenda is to satisfy his hunger. When he discovers a sloth bear, and decides to stalk this bear as prey, from that point the tigers agenda is to kill and consume the bear. When a sloth bear happens to spot a tiger in its attempt to stalk and ambush him, from that point the sloth bear has only one agenda; to survive a tiger attack. The sloth bear knows that if he runs, the tiger will catch him and kill him. His best chance of survival ( from eons of experience ) is to stand his ground. The bear has no desire to fight with a tiger. His agenda is certainly not to kill the tiger. His agenda is to defend himself and survive. In most such confrontations - certainly a high percentage - the bear will aggressively defend himself until the tiger decides it would be wise to search for an easier prey choice. ( IMO ) for those who wish to make a game of it, the tiger's agenda was to kill and consume the bear. The tiger failed. The bear's agenda was to defend himself and survive a tiger attack. The bear was successful. Therefore, we can declare the bear as the winner of this "Game"... in the vast majority of such events.
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