Post by Vodmeister on Jun 3, 2013 4:28:45 GMT 5
Here is some old accounts and pictures which truly demonstrate some incredible tolerance towards pain and punishment from Big Cats.
I remember some people saying cats are very fragile animals, as they foolishly put it. Here are some incredible durability feats by felines;
We'll start off with basic flesh injuries from not-so violent territorial, hunting or mating right fights;
Dismemberment in the wild;
Still killed a 10 foot crocodile despite missing a limb;
Bengal Tiger vs Asian Water Buffalo (old pit fight, reliability questionable);
The buffalo won the fight in a head on cage match, but the tiger used his supreme durability to take the wounds for some time, and with its pawswipe it was able to maul the buffalo enough that the owner was later on forced to shoot it.
Here's a young male lion who survived the kick of a Giraffe:
Lioness survives buffalo battering;
[flash=725,450]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WBitJwoNy70[/flash]
Hippo battering:
[flash=640,400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK07Xj7DC-E[/flash]
I remember some people saying cats are very fragile animals, as they foolishly put it. Here are some incredible durability feats by felines;
We'll start off with basic flesh injuries from not-so violent territorial, hunting or mating right fights;
Dismemberment in the wild;
Still killed a 10 foot crocodile despite missing a limb;
Bengal Tiger vs Asian Water Buffalo (old pit fight, reliability questionable);
The buffalo won the fight in a head on cage match, but the tiger used his supreme durability to take the wounds for some time, and with its pawswipe it was able to maul the buffalo enough that the owner was later on forced to shoot it.
Here's a young male lion who survived the kick of a Giraffe:
Lioness survives buffalo battering;
[flash=725,450]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WBitJwoNy70[/flash]
Hippo battering:
[flash=640,400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK07Xj7DC-E[/flash]
"A tiger came out first, and was bagged, shortly afterwards a panther came out and received a flesh wound to the neck, after which it disappeared into a deep cave. This was surrounded; and they soon heard the noise of a fight going on inside. The shikaries said that there was tiger in the cave which was killing the panther; the officers tried for half an hour to dislodge the animals by firing rifles and throwing firecrackers into the cave but without success. So leaving the officer who had wounded the panther on guard, the other two went off to secure the dead tiger. Shortly afterwards a small hyena came out and was shot. The hyena was a female about 4 feet 6 inches in length and was badly scratched about the face but otherwise uninjured. Next morning on return to the cave a female panther, about 5 feet 10 inches, was found lying just outside the cave stone dead. On examination it was found she had a fresh bullet wound in the neck, which was not sufficient to kill her, but she had been bitten in two places by the hyena, firstly through her loins, secondly through the kidneys at the same time injuring the spine, and there is little doubt that the panther died from these injuries as the flesh wound in the neck was not nearly severe enough to cause its death, although it might have done so in a few days if mortification set in."
