Bears as usurpers

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Are they any accounts for that. I have read plenty of post and stuff from books about brown bears doing that.


Edit: usurper.....

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The answer is yes, sometimes black bears but mostly brown bears will often usurp animal kill from other predators including wolves, puma, & tigers (also smaller bears). In Yellowstone National Park, grizzly bears have benefited a lot from the successful reintroduction of wolves. More details are provided in the INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONS section (e.g., puma & wolves).

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Thats cool, pumas while being formidable opponents toward wolves one on one and maybe even two if the cougar is large is acctually outranked by the wolf.
Black bears could be usurpers but their lack of aggression sometimes makes them retreat more from weaker predators (e.g. wolverine).

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The smaller Himalayan black bear, though a forest dweller, can be found at heights of 4500 meters in the summer; here it feeds on fruit, ripe corn, walnuts, acorns, termites and meat from sheep, goats and deer. It is a voracious consumer of both fruit and meat, because it needs to build up reserves to sustain it during hibernation. There are many recorded cases of black bears chasing leopards off their kills and appropriating the carcass. They also hunt the young of the hangul or Kashmir stag. In the lower Himalayas there are often fierce fights over food, which can occur even with tigers -such an incident was witnessed by Jim Corbett, the great naturalist who worked in the foothills of the Himalayas in the early twentieth century.


Valmik Thapar in Land Of The Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent (1997).



In the lower Himalayas there are often fierce fights over food, which can occur even with tigers -such an incident was witnessed by Jim Corbett, the great naturalist who worked in the foothills of the Himalayas in the early twentieth century.











Jim Corbett, The Temple Tiger Text Extract Reproduction.

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Giant prehistoric bears like Arctodus Simus or Arctotherium Angustidens also robbed rival predators of their food kills:









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