Watch: Tiger Has Intense Stare Down With A Huge Bear At Tadoba National Park In Maharashtra; Video Goes Viral
An interesting encounter between a huge bear and a tiger at the Tadoba National Park in Maharashtra has gone viral on social media.
An interesting encounter between a huge bear and a tiger at the Tadoba National Park in Maharashtra has gone viral on social media.
The 11-second clip was shared on Twitter by IFS officer Saket Badola. The video originally shot by Naman Agarwal shows a tiger sitting in the middle of a path through the forest. A huge black bear then walks up along the path and both ferocious animals have a staredown.
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The bear then appears to walk away before the video ends.
¡°Greetings, of a slightly different kind,¡± the IFS officer, captioned the video.
'Greetings, of a slightly different kind'.?@susantananda3 @rameshpandeyifs
¡ª Saket Badola,IFS (@Saket_Badola) March 8, 2022
VC: In the video pic.twitter.com/9ULCWO2mrG
The clip has garnered over 31k views and more than 1,800 likes. Many people took to the comments section to react to the video.
Who blinks first.???
¡ª Chandrasekhar Shenoy (@agranpapilot3) March 9, 2022
That was a giant greeting.. hahah..
¡ª The Nature Wild Consortium (@WildConsortium) March 9, 2022
I think the tiger was waiting for the bear to make the first move but the bear moved away without confronting the tiger.... sensible move??????
¡ª Manav (@ManavK_Bedia) March 10, 2022
Yeah, it is not the usual bear hug!
¡ª Arpana M (@m_arpana) March 9, 2022
Tiger doesn't care
¡ª Monu Jain (@MonuJai67186147) March 8, 2022
This isn't the first time two vicious animals have come face to face in Tadoba National Park.
In 2018, a tiger and a sloth bear fought each other in a clash of the titans.
The video from the encounter begins with the tiger chasing away the bear but suddenly, the sloth bear charges at the tiger. A battle ensues and the tiger takes the lead but faces severe resistance. The next few tense minutes see both the tiger and the sloth bear viciously charging at each other trying to assert their dominance.
It was said at that time that the tiger had marked the water body called Jamun Bodi as his territory, and the sloth bear had tried to get some water for her cub and herself which started the conflict.
The mother bear, in order to protect her cub, fought back. The distressed cub roared as its mother took on the big cat.
Both the tiger and sloth bear suffered injuries in the attack. The young cub ran away during the fight.
In 2020, another video went viral showing an intense encounter between a sloth bear and two tigers at the Ranthambore National park in Rajasthan.
The video featured two tigers sitting in close vicinity with a bear. However, as one of the big cats moves towards the bear, the nonchalant animal rises on its hind legs to intimidate the approaching tiger.
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