A tiger brawns through the snow and approaches a brown bear's burrow. At this time, in the middle of winter, the brown bear is sleeping soundly. The tiger wants to take advantage of the brown bear's hibernation to block the bear hole and kill the warehouse.
This tiger is an adult male tiger, nearly 3 meters long, weighing 300 kilograms, and is in the prime of life, making it the best of the Siberian tigers.
However, when the tiger quietly came to the brown bear cave and was about to raise its claws to hunt, it suddenly stopped attacking, and instead slowly retreated towards the bear hole, and then jumped 8 meters away and fled.
What happened to the tiger?
★ In the middle of winter, the tiger pounces on the brown bear hole
Lake Kotskoli Nature Reserve, on-Amur, Russia. The snow is falling, and the mountains and fields are confused.
A sturdy tiger stretched its waist in the wind and snow, shook the snowflakes on its body, and walked towards a cliff with great interest. There is a shallow grotto with a brown bear living in it.
The tiger has been "thinking" about this brown bear for a long time. For nearly three years, it has been pondering how to get rid of the brown bear and feed on it. Because eating a brown bear can fulfill its three wishes:
First, permanently eliminate this fierce guy in the territory. Soon after the tiger took over the territory, it discovered that the brown bear, which was larger than itself, had also occupied the forest.
The two beasts fought each other many times, but neither could defeat the other, so they had to live peacefully with each other.
Second, the tiger has long wanted to eat brown bear meat, but there is only this fierce stupid big man in the territory, and there is no small brown bear to eat. If you can defeat this brown bear and eat it again, will you be happy?
Third, show the majesty of the Tiger King. The animal world is respected by the strong. If you can defeat and eat this brown bear, it will be enough to blow it, and as a result, everyone will think that the tiger is better than the brown bear.
★ The tiger was about to kill the brown bear in the cave, but suddenly fled
At this time, the tiger was in high spirits and walked confidently towards the brown bear's burrow.
For this bear killing operation, it has secretly reconnoitred countless times in advance.
Brown bears are now in hibernation. Take advantage of this opportunity to sneak up and bite the throat of a brown bear with a single click. Although the brown bear weighs about 400 kilograms, it is far more than its own weight of 300 kilograms. But "killing while the bear is sleeping and blocking the door" is the "bear killing tactic" that the tiger has been pondering for three years!
It's almost Brown Bear Cave House. The tiger slowed down and crept cautiously to the bear's cave.
It is a shallow stone cave that is half-naked. At this time, the brown bear is sleeping soundly with its head resting on its paws, its head facing outward. Snowflakes fluttered like pear blossoms, and brown bears were covered with their heads and faces.
The tiger stared at the brown bear's face from afar: a pair of small eyes were squinting, which is the standard sleeping position of a brown bear.
The tiger stopped, and once again brewed his sneak attack plan: the first step, suddenly slapped the brown bear's head with a condensed palm, and blinded it. The second step is to kill the bear while the bear is stunned! Drag it out of the bear hole and cut its throat!
The tiger plucked up his courage again, cautiously came to the sleeping brown bear cave house, transported a thousand kilograms of strength to a tiger's palm, and suddenly raised his palm and was about to shoot it, the brown bear suddenly opened his eyes, and they opened very wide, looking directly at the tiger, as if asking: What do you want to do?
The tiger was stunned in his heart, and when he just wanted to slap the tiger's palm, he seemed to see the brown bear's face full of sneers: Do you know the consequences of this slap not killing me?
The tiger had no bottom in his heart, and slowly retreated towards the brown bear, retreated, and suddenly jumped out of 8 meters after exiting five or six meters.
It's terrifying! This damn brown bear dares to fake sleep and lie to me!
The tiger was afraid that the brown bear would counterattack, and immediately fled the scene at a high speed of 80 kilometers.
★ Why are tigers afraid of brown bears?
Previously, the tiger had hunted brown bears three times.
The first time was three years ago, shortly after the arrival of the territory, when the tiger spotted the presence of a brown bear and launched a surprise attack.
Although the tiger is the king of beasts, it never attacks its prey head-on.
Tigers like to get the maximum benefit at the least cost, so tigers always ambush their prey, or sneak attack their prey.
As a result, the tiger screwed up when it attacked the brown bear. It definitely didn't expect that the brown bear's legs were taller than it was standing upright, and the power of the "bear split" of its palms was greater than the "tiger split" of its tiger and tiger palms. The tiger could not resist the brown bear's counterattack and had to flee.
The second time, after many reconnaissances, the tiger chose to ambush in advance next to the "bear road", wanting to catch the brown bear by surprise.
The brown bear came with a big grin. The tiger let the brown bear walk by, and immediately burst out from behind, and pounced on the unprepared brown bear at once. The tiger was overjoyed, but he was about to lock his throat, but the brown bear rolled on the spot and grabbed the tiger's stomach with a wave of his palm.
The brown bear's hook nails are 15 centimeters long, and they suddenly stick out, tearing the tiger's belly at once. The tiger broke out in a cold sweat and had no choice but to escape.
The third time was a chance encounter between a tiger and a brown bear. The brown bear immediately stood up and waved his palms and roared: You shameless wild cat, with the name of the beastmaster, specializing in the dirty deeds behind the scenes. Let's fight fairly today, how about it?
The tiger has already learned the power of the brown bear, how dare it be tough with the brown bear? It bluffs at the brown bear and growls and pounces. The brown bear is happy, actively responding, and the person stands up, with a height of more than 2.3 meters.
When the tiger saw it, the pressure was so great that he could only make a false shot, but he jumped out of the battle circle and fled desperately.
The brown bear scolded the tiger behind his back for being shameless. The tiger doesn't care! Whoever has the last laugh is the real winner.
★ Tigers and brown bears are rivals
Brown bears are not natural enemies of tigers, and tigers are not natural enemies of brown bears. They can only be considered old enemies!
On Earth, the tiger and the brown bear are the only two super-giants that inhabit the same territory as Northeast China and the southern Russian Far East.
Both Siberian tigers and Ussuri brown bears are very formidable apex predators within their habitats.
There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two kings on the earth. There is absolutely no room for two superpredators to exist at the same time in the same area. Therefore, they must hate each other, but they are helpless.
Since ancient times, tigers and brown bears have fought countless wars, but tigers and brown bears still live in the same place, and no one can help anyone, and no one can expel anyone.
But they want to fight when they meet, isn't it an old enemy?
Ivan, a tiger expert in the Russian Far East, after years of investigation, summed up the records of tigers and brown bears fighting in the Far East for more than 100 years: the two sides fought 44 times, of which the tiger won 22 times, killing the brown bear, while the brown bear killed the tiger 12 times, and the remaining 10 times did not distinguish between life and death.
Therefore, neither the brown bear nor the tiger is convinced, but it is difficult to defeat the other. It's just that the brown bear fights the tiger by strength, and the tiger fights the bear by intelligence.
★ The tiger plans again: next time it will definitely kill the brown bear
Tigers don't waste their strength. This time, after escaping the Brown Bear Cave Mansion at a high speed of 80 kilometers per hour, he immediately slowed down. It sensed that the brown bear was not chasing, at least not so far, so it immediately relaxed and looked back in the direction of the escape.
In fact, the brown bear did not chase after it at all, because it did not wake up at all.
This year's warm winter has made the brown bears that have been hibernating sleep very unsteadily. There are also many brown bears that still roam the ice and snow. They can't sleep because of the warming climate, or they can't sleep soundly.
The brown bear that couldn't sleep simply stopped sleeping, but walked out of the "bear mansion" again and entered the Linhai Snow Field as a "camel walker". This is the name given by the hunters.
The bear is short, stocky and short, and from a distance it looks like a big lump of meat. So the hunters called the hibernating bears "lying camels", and the bears that were still roaming in winter "walking camels". Do you think it's very vivid? But the lump is dead meat, and it comes alive with the camel character.
This brown bear belongs to the "sleeping camel" who cannot sleep soundly. The brown bear opened its eyes just when the tiger was about to attack it, and it was the life instinct that made it sense that danger was coming, so it suddenly opened its eyes. But its eyes were nothing, and it did not see the tiger that came to it to kill it.
The tiger is a thief who scares himself away. After a while, the brown bear fell asleep again.
However, the tiger did not know the secret. It would never dare to kill the carbine, but it still did not give up, and was planning its next attack on the brown bear. (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a senior journalist and writer, has published 42 novels and other monographs, written more than 200 episodes of TV dramas, created dozens of TV films on history, culture, scenery, documentaries and other topics, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles.) ）