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Originally Posted by m21sniper
No disrespect to the mighty bear, but Cats are the top of the food chain. A tiger, African lion or a big panther would fk a bear up but good.
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A coastal brown will easily double, sometimes triple the weight of the largest cat. Puma/panther/cougar? Even a large black bear will at least double, if not triple the size of the biggest one of these. Browns double or triple the size of blacks...
There are places where black bear and cougar share the same range (like around here). Cougars defer to them, and go to great lengths to avoid them. Where browns share the same range, they are known to actually hunt blacks and kill them. Ross Seyfreid writes of personally witnessing a large brown he was hunting pick up a large black - like over 500 pounds - in his mouth, by the scruff of the neck, and shake it around up in the air over his head like a dog with a chew toy. The black was dead before it hit the ground.
Browns share the same range in eastern Russia with Siberian tigers. The guides working that area of the world will gladly clear up how that relationship works, and who rules the roost. The tigers go to great lengths to avoid the bears, to the point that if you are hunting tigers and see bear sign, you might as well hunt somewhere else. Bears run the show where they overlap. There is no such thing as a even a remotely "fair" fight between the two. Hunters over there have, on rare occasions, run accross the aftermath of chance encounters between the two. A 1,500, 1,800, maybe even 2,000 pound brown will dispatch a 500-600 pound tiger like a house cat with a mouse.