Siberian (Amur) Tiger vs Ussuri Brown Bear ("Black Grizzly")

Translation: ... there no natural enemies of a tiger at the East of Russia, except a brown bear unwanted rival. Timofei Bazhenov: "I am often asked: If the tiger meets the brown bear in taiga who will win then? The same question as: Supposing an elephant tries a fall with a whale?, but there is still an answer to it. As a rule a tiger wins but it occurs a brown bear may win if it is big. It may kill a tiger but encounters are extremely rare: in the starving period when there are little hoofed mammals and so on, moon bears are the food for tigers: a tiger with great pleasure pulls them out from the the hollow and eats." statistics http://shish02.livejournal.com/7269.h... "... In general a tiger procures about 4 thousand boars (18-22% of stocking), 2500 deers (9-11%) and 370 Brown and Himalayan black bears (6-7% of the overall stocking) ..." ("Zoogeography Of The Far East", A.M. Kolosov) In 1970-s the overall size of Amur tigers was about 150 species in the Far East of Russia. At present the overall size of Amur tigers makes approximately 450-500 species and accordingly the overall procurement increased 3-4 times.