Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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Lions are King cos they lay around with magnificent crowns while everyone else (female lions) does the work. Nothing more kingly than being a pampered lazy arse, with as many chicks as you can hold, between the occaisional scrap with another kingly type
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@Bones Leopard the real tree climbers. Lion do go into trees from time to time eg Masai Mara and Phinda but not really to ambush from higher generally as leopard have been recorded as doing. As for off the ground jumping up onto prey, lionesses in their prime probably top the pile. Younger lion do make more mistakes. Seen a very slow agonizing wildebeest death coz one youngsters throat grip wasn’t on the windpipe and the hapless beast was being eaten alive from the backend by the others...gnarly stuff....it took forever for it to die. So hard to generalize but for that size cat I would say yes...a lioness in her prime at full launch is something to see.
Caracal can launch up vertically to catch birds and that is just insane. Serval too but Caracal is crazy. Both are a lot smaller though. One cannot believe the agility and focused precision of all cats really. Incredible creatures.
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@Machpants Male lion do hunt too. But they are undeniably good at arriving at a kill and claiming it too 😂😂
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@gt12 they probably did live closer at some point, but less humans about to watch the fights in the wild
Although lions are strong in general, tigers are in fact stronger. They are more muscular, more active and have better agility compared to lions.
They also tend to be more aggressive as lions are considered to be lazy animals. Most male lions just sleep around, doing nothing unless they really have to get up and do something.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tiger-vs-lionwho-would-win-83275452/
He told them that “back in the day of the Roman Coliseum, the smart money usually backed the tiger.” While we don’t have any great descriptions of the outcomes, ancient paintings of the event usually showed the tiger winning. And in the late 1800′s, the Gaekwad of Baroda, an Indian ruler, arranged a fight between the two beasts. Before the fight began, those running the bettor set the odds at 1 to 37,000 that the tiger would win. It did, and the Gaekwad lost 37,000 rupees.
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@taniwharugby meh. Dress it up all you like, just another Indian betting scandal.
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@voodoo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I was thinking a medium sized boulder, small enough to lift and swing, like the size of my head, something to jam at his jaws if he pounced.
Get a stick and jam the cougar's mouth wide open - works for crocodiles.
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
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Surely the correct word is "Bugger"...?
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@Victor-Meldrew no that's a swear
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@voodoo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I was thinking a medium sized boulder, small enough to lift and swing, like the size of my head, something to jam at his jaws if he pounced.
Get a stick and jam the cougar's mouth wide open - works for crocodiles.
you had me up until crocodiles
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
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Fkn grade A moronic city tossers with chelsea tractors thinking they are bush. Embarrassment to real rural NZers.
Like boats there should be tests for their, and others, own safety before townies are let lose
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@Bones said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Machpants where are they from?
A city, all the gear no idea
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@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Really interesting chat with Matt Wright on the Conversation podcast. Great wealth of stories from a real life Crocodile Dundee.
I'm sure there's some hyperbole and downright BS but he's a real raconteur and very entertaining
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/conversations/id94688506?i=1000494551764
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One for @mariner4life
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@MiketheSnow Gritter McGritface?
Authorities have kiboshed that in the past though sadly. Humourless bastards.