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Basic causes of the death of hoofed mammals in the Ussury Reserve and at the adjacent territory during the years 1974 to 2011 are hunting and poaching, tiger predatoriness and exhaustion. The largest number of established death facts since 90es relate to sika deer because this species became dominating in the fauna of hoofed mammals in the reserve as a result of acclimatization. Before 80es, the main preys for tigers were red deer (52 %) and wild boars (44 %); the fraction of sika deer in preys was 4 %. During the recent 10 years, the fraction of sika deer in the trophic link tiger-prey in separate stations of the reserve is 68 %, wild boar 20.6 %, red deer 6.9 %.