Woman killed by Tiger at Wildlife Park

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edgyedgy said:

Timmy40 said:

I believe the rankings in hardness are accepted to be:

Brown Bear
Tiger
Lion
Gorilla

Brown bears are the most fearsome predators on the planet. When placed in a cage with a Lion the poor old Lion didn't even get a look in.

The honey badger is the hardest animal in the world bar none. There's a video on YouTube of one badger fighting six lions and walking away. Still human vs tiger is only ending one way.

Pound for pound, the honey badgers are definitely tough, but the video is of six young lions playing with it, when thing gets more serious, the badger gets a big bite off mum, and the badger nips back, getting away. If the Lion had meant business, the badger would carp it. There is a linked vid where some lions kill a honey badger, and even though the badger dies, the skin is tough enough that they can't rip it apart. Honey badger is tough, but it cannot defend against the big toughies. Polar bears and Brown bears being at the top, along with the elephant seal.

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Timmy40 said:

I'm like to nominate the Army Ant as a super organism. Taking a colony to represent a single indiviudal entity nothing can take on and beat those buggers. Not even a Hippo.

I watched a fascinating documentary about the Masai tribe, they were interviewing some of the warriors and they were asked what animals they feared, the head masai laughed and said Fire Ants, anything else like lions and hyena he would happily face off but not fire ants.

[PorkInsider]

Halb said:

edgyedgy said:

Timmy40 said:

I believe the rankings in hardness are accepted to be:

Brown Bear
Tiger
Lion
Gorilla

Brown bears are the most fearsome predators on the planet. When placed in a cage with a Lion the poor old Lion didn't even get a look in.

The honey badger is the hardest animal in the world bar none. There's a video on YouTube of one badger fighting six lions and walking away. Still human vs tiger is only ending one way.

Pound for pound, the honey badgers are definitely tough, but the video is of six young lions playing with it, when thing gets more serious, the badger gets a big bite off mum, and the badger nips back, getting away. If the Lion had meant business, the badger would carp it. There is a linked vid where some lions kill a honey badger, and even though the badger dies, the skin is tough enough that they can't rip it apart. Honey badger is tough, but it cannot defend against the big toughies. Polar bears and Brown bears being at the top, along with the elephant seal.

Andt don't forget that the honey badger just doesn't give a st.

NSFW (language) https://youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg

[BrassMan]

Turquoise said:

R1gtr said:

I always thought if I was attacked by a big cat like a lion or Tiger I would 'sacrifice' my weaker arm and with my 'good' arm get it in a sleeper hold and choke it out.

That's the funniest thing I've ever read on here. Priceless.

You must be the love child of Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris.

One of Hercules labours. It's why the Brazilians call it a mata leon.

[glazbagun]

FredClogs said:

glazbagun said:

Boydie88 said:

944fan said:

Might be BS, but I heard that they are the only living creature aside from humans who kill for no reason - food, threatened etc.

Double hard bds

Domestic cats? The s.

Killer Whales, too. In fact I think quite a few animals do.

Wolves will kill for amusement as well and even Dolphins. We humans always do ourselves down, most of the time we're no where near as y as wild animals, hence the term "wild" "animals".

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ho6iu3X

Killer whales are dicks.

In one of the (many) grim passages of The Worst Journey in the World(Scott of the antartics failed mission) Cherry talks about how they'd bash the sheet ice to try and tip the horses into the water.

His horse was too weak to make a climb and kept sliding back into the freezing waters so he ice-axed it to death to save it from the waiting whales. Grim as fk.

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glazbagun said:

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ho6iu3X

Killer whales are dicks.

It's because they're highly intelligent, comparable to humans. They share many traits that humans have.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I'm not sure killer whales or wolves kill for amusement. Or if they even have a concept of amusement. They might kill out of instinct even when they don't need food, or to hone their skills or whatever. Perhaps to show the technique to watching youngsters. They kill for e reason determined by millions upon millions of years of evolution.

I can't imagine wolves killing something and then getting together as a group afterwards to laugh about it.

[glazbagun]

Halb said:

glazbagun said:

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ho6iu3X

Killer whales are dicks.

It's because they're highly intelligent, comparable to humans. They share many traits that humans have.

I'll remember that the next time someone accuses me of being a dick.

[glazbagun]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I'm not sure killer whales or wolves kill for amusement. Or if they even have a concept of amusement. They might kill out of instinct even when they don't need food, or to hone their skills or whatever. Perhaps to show the technique to watching youngsters. They kill for e reason determined by millions upon millions of years of evolution.

I can't imagine wolves killing something and then getting together as a group afterwards to laugh about it.

Children pull the legs from spiders, etc, too. I think sympathy for other creatures (or anyone) is probably a high level social skill above problem solving.

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Issi said:

fathomfive said:

kowalski655 said:

TEKNOPUG said:

A Polar bear would definitely be the top predator in the Antarctic. It would also be very, very lost

Are you sure,those penguins look pretty damn vicious!

They're also pretty hard for Polar Bears to eat.


They can't get the wrappers off!

I think the joke goes -


Q.Why don't polar bears eat penguins?

A. Because they live in different hemispheres and so the chances of a meeting between the two animals is staggeringly remote.

they could order them online from iceland?

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TwigtheWonderkid said:

I'm not sure killer whales or wolves kill for amusement. Or if they even have a concept of amusement. They might kill out of instinct even when they don't need food, or to hone their skills or whatever. Perhaps to show the technique to watching youngsters. They kill for e reason determined by millions upon millions of years of evolution.

I can't imagine wolves killing something and then getting together as a group afterwards to laugh about it.

Killer whales as almost as far away from wolves as humans are. They have cultures, and their cultures are memetic.

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glazbagun said:

Halb said:

glazbagun said:

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ho6iu3X

Killer whales are dicks.

It's because they're highly intelligent, comparable to humans. They share many traits that humans have.

I'll remember that the next time someone accuses me of being a dick.

What, you'll tip them into the arctic ocean?

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glazbagun said:

Children pull the legs from spiders, etc, too. I think sympathy for other creatures (or anyone) is probably a high level social skill above problem solving.

Some cetaceans have also exhibited sympathy. But when we're talking about killer whales being dicks, it's comparable to a gang of hunters being out and doing what they need to to survive, like what the majority of most humans had to do 30 odd thousand years ago, it's a species eat species world out there.

[jshell]

That Killer Whale was just showing a sense of humour...

[mybrainhurts]

jshell said:

That Killer Whale was just showing a sense of humour...

...Get off my back

Ought to put him in a water park and get Russell Brand to take a ride...

[jshell]

mybrainhurts said:

jshell said:

That Killer Whale was just showing a sense of humour...

...Get off my back

Ought to put him in a water park and get Russell Brand to take a ride...

Or Mandelson!

[mybrainhurts]

jshell said:

mybrainhurts said:

jshell said:

That Killer Whale was just showing a sense of humour...

...Get off my back

Ought to put him in a water park and get Russell Brand to take a ride...

Or Mandelson!

I'm sure we can select a worthy queue for the ride of a lifetime...

[glazbagun]

Humpbacks are not dicks, apparently. They may just really like pissing off Orcas:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/humpbac...

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glazbagun said:

Humpbacks are not dicks, apparently. They may just really like pissing off Orcas:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/humpbac...

Killer whales are like the bloods and the cripps of the ocean, humpbacks are like the Guardian Angels of NYC.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Aren't killer whales a type of dolphin? I thought it was a misnomer, and they would be better being called whale killers.