Tigers 🐯, and Lions 🦁, and Bears 🐻, Oh My!

 

Not terribly surprising. An adult male Siberian tiger is around 600 lbs. Siberian brown bears (which are essentially a very closely related to American brown and grizzly bears) run around 300 to 550 (they can be bigger, but that depends on the availability of food--which is why Kodiak bears feeding on salmon can be 1500 lbs). Asian black bears rarely exceed 300 lbs. Normally similar sized predators avoid each other, because an injury to a solitary hunter like a tiger would be fatal (it would prevent it from hunting). Bears are ominvores and scavangers. While they do hunt down prey, they mostly live off a variety of food sources and stealing kills from wolves and even tiger kills. 

Unless desperate or cornered, I doubt a tiger would risk taking on a bear the same size (unless it could ambush the bear as depicted above). It makes sense, however, that adult tigers would target young bears in the year of two they leave their mothers. They are vulnerable then. While bears do make up part of the tiger diet, it is mostly Asian black bears.  

Tigers and lions used to have wide over lapping territories. Some say tigers beat lions one on one, other say lions win. In the wild, I doubt a lion or tiger would fight unless one at the clear advantage (say, a lion with its pride backing him up) or there was no way to avoid a fight.  

EBL: Year of the Tiger 🐯

AoSHQ: Morning Report 02.21.22