smedz
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Post by smedz on Oct 15, 2020 14:03:49 GMT -5
Yes, how the heck did that guy not crap himself?
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Post by brobear on Oct 15, 2020 14:17:46 GMT -5
Reply #121 - I would have kept walking at a normal pace while keeping an eye out for a good stick which could serve either as a spear or a club. I have no doubts that I could have found something.
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Post by King Kodiak on Oct 15, 2020 14:52:24 GMT -5
Yes, how the heck did that guy not crap himself? Am surprised that cougar stalked that guy for such a long distance.
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smedz
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Post by smedz on Oct 15, 2020 21:00:53 GMT -5
Speaking of the video, get this.
My mother and sister watched it, my sister doesn't even think it's real and my mother is undecided on its authenticity...........welcome to my world, a world of halfwits with the audacity to think that video could be faked.......can someone, very kindly, please tell me, why people argue over everything!!!??
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Post by brobear on Oct 16, 2020 13:55:56 GMT -5
wildfact.com/forum/ - go to: Extinct Animals - go to: Pleistocene Big Cats Poll: Who is the largest cat?
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Post by King Kodiak on Oct 16, 2020 14:30:40 GMT -5
wildfact.com/forum/ - go to: Extinct Animals - go to: Pleistocene Big Cats Poll: Who is the largest cat? American lion has 2 votes and its at the lead. But we know the Populator was larger. The Ngandong tiger (Panthera tigris Soloensis) has also 1 vote. Cave lion also has 1 vote. Amphimachairodus Kabir also with 1.
wildfact.com/forum/polls.php?action=showresults&pid=13
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Post by King Kodiak on Oct 19, 2020 0:22:32 GMT -5
This is a follow up article on the cougar incident of reply #121:
No, That Mountain Lion Wasn't "Stalking" a Runner
A viral video of a mountain lion has inspired headlines about the cat "stalking" the runner who recorded it. But that's not what the clip shows.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.backpacker.com/.amp/news-and-events/no-that-mountain-lion-wasnt-stalking-a-runner
And of course, when mountain lions are the subject, this is what its always being said:
"As Pratt points out, mountain lions are ambush predators, sneaking up on their quarry and staying hidden until the very last minute."
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Post by brobear on Oct 19, 2020 14:06:40 GMT -5
programmes.putin.kremlin.ru/en/tiger/program#:~:text=THE%20AMUR%20TIGER%20PROGRAMME.%20The%20programme%20to%20research,Book%20Animals%20and%20Other%20Important%20Wildlife%20in%20Russia. The programme focuses on the study of the structural and functional organisation of the populations of the main prey species (wild boars, roe deer, Manchurian deer and sika deer) and those of the main rival predators (brown bears, Asiatic black bears, and wolves); it also aims to research the specifics and the implications of inter-population interaction between two species of big cats, namely, the Amur tiger and the Far Eastern leopard.
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Post by brobear on Oct 19, 2020 14:11:02 GMT -5
news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8128000/8128738.stm The Amur tiger, or Siberian tiger as it is also known, is the largest subspecies which once lived across a large portion of northern China, the Korean peninsula, and the southernmost regions of far east Russia. The Amur tiger most likely derived from the Caspian tiger, recent research has shown. During the early 20th century, the Amur tiger too was almost driven to extinction, as expanding human settlements, habitat loss and poaching wiped out this biggest of cats from over 90% of its range. By the 1940s just 20 to 30 individuals survived in the wild. Since then, a ban on hunting and a remarkable conservation effort have slowly helped the Amur tiger recover. Today, up to 500 are thought to survive in the wild, while 421 cats are kept in captivity. However, the genetic health of the tiger hasn't improved, according to a new analysis published in Molecular Ecology.
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Post by brobear on Oct 21, 2020 11:44:35 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Oct 21, 2020 19:28:14 GMT -5
/\ Not sure about that but you might be right. The rarity of P.atrox in tar pits does say something.
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Post by brobear on Oct 24, 2020 15:03:04 GMT -5
A quote from my old face-off rival BoldChamp. He wouldn't say this if he did not believe it wholeheartedly. Quote: "All big cats above 550 lbs in the wild are fat, also. Even if they look pretty muscular....they are still fat."
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Post by King Kodiak on Oct 24, 2020 15:10:30 GMT -5
A quote from my old face-off rival BoldChamp. He wouldn't say this if he did not believe it wholeheartedly. Quote: "All big cats above 550 lbs in the wild are fat, also. Even if they look pretty muscular....they are still fat." Fat and most likely unhealthy. Cats are not designed to weight too much.
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Post by King Kodiak on Oct 24, 2020 20:21:45 GMT -5
AMBUSH PREDATORAmbush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals that capture or trap prey by stealth or by strategy (typically not conscious), rather than by speed or by strength. Ambush predators sit and wait for prey, often from a concealed position, and then launch a rapid surprise attack.
STRATEGY
Ambush predators usually remain motionless (sometimes hidden) and wait for prey to come within ambush distance before pouncing. Ambush predators are often camouflaged, and may be solitary. Pursuit predation becomes a better strategy than ambush predation when the predator is faster than the prey.[1] Ambush predators use many intermediate strategies. For example, when a pursuit predator is faster than its prey over a short distance, but not in a long chase, then either stalking or ambush becomes necessary as part of the strategy.[1]
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambush_predator
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Post by brobear on Oct 24, 2020 23:20:54 GMT -5
www.wildcatfamily.com/felidae-evolution/ First of all; I'm not downing cats for being ambush predators. There are basically two varieties of full-time predators; ambush predators and chase predators. Our two most common house pets are prime examples of each. Dogs are chase predators and cats are ambush predators. A predator cannot eat until he catches and kills his prey. Cats have been ambush predators for 25 million years. After such an unimaginable length of time, generation after generation after generation, "ambush predator" is who the cat is. I see two reasons for the ambush. ( 1 ) Example: When a tiger stalks a deer, to catch the fleet-footed deer, the big cat must take the speedster completely by surprise. ( 2 ) Example: When a tiger stalks a water buffalo, the big cat must launch himself unexpectedly upon the huge bovine, and quickly place himself into the killing position. He clamps his powerful jaws, armed with long canines, onto the bovine's throat to kill by strangulation. Sometimes around the mouth to kill by suffocation. But his killing methods have been practiced and well honed for the past 25 million years. When an ambush has been well executed, then the killing is ( normally ) an assassination rather than a fight. I consider the big cats as being the greatest land-based predators on Earth.
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Post by King Kodiak on Oct 25, 2020 1:13:34 GMT -5
Well, some prey animals are just as fast as tigers if not faster, that is another very important reason to ambush. Of course there is the injury factor also, an ambush predator wants to kill fast without a struggle.
So, as it concerns to tigers and bears, obviously tigers know they are faster than bears, so the main reason they ambush bears is not to get hurt, or to die trying in a face to face fight.
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Post by brobear on Oct 25, 2020 3:13:30 GMT -5
Well, some prey animals are just as fast as tigers if not faster, that is another very important reason to ambush. Of course there is the injury factor also, an ambush predator wants to kill fast without a struggle.
So, as it concerns to tigers and bears, obviously tigers know they are faster than bears, so the main reason they ambush bears is not to get hurt, or to die trying in a face to face fight. Precisely. Example #1: to capture fast prey. Example #2: to avoid a fight. Bears, with the exception of the polar bear, are not full-time predators. Some prey they chase and catch, and some prey they ambush. It has been noted that while one grizzly might be a rather accomplished predator, another is completely clueless. Each bear is an individual. Either Mama bear teaches him how to hunt or he has to figure it out. Hunting is not instinctive in a bear as it is in a wolf or a cougar. Doug Peacock, who spent years in Yellowstone studying the habits of the grizzly, said that he knew this one particular bear who would walk right past a carcass, preferring to hunt rather than scavenge. But, he also pointed out that those bears who are accomplished hunters are also the more aggressive bears. Through the decades, such bears have been systematically eliminated by man from the grizzly population. Thus grizzlies living today are less aggressive than those bears of 200-years ago.
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Post by brobear on Oct 31, 2020 22:32:01 GMT -5
kochhars.com/2/hi/science/nature/3119456.stm A scientist based in the UK says she has proved that lions can count. Biologist Karen McComb of Sussex University used a big loudspeaker and recordings of lions in various numbers to experiment with African lions. She then recorded the number and type of roars that came back from lions around. "What they did was closely controlled by how many were roaring from the loudspeaker, and how many of themselves there were," Karen McComb of Sussex University explained to BBC World Service's Science In Action programme. "Their likelihood of approaching increased as their own group size increased - and also decreased as the number of intruders roaring from the loudspeaker increased. "Their behaviour was best predicted by a variable that we called odds, which was the ratio of number of defenders to number of intruders." In other words, the lions were making decisions by working out the numbers they potentially faced.
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Post by brobear on Nov 1, 2020 21:24:26 GMT -5
1000 kilograms is equal to 2,204.62 pounds (avoirdupois). www.ultimateungulate.com/ General Characteristics Body Length: 250-330 cm / 8.3-11 ft. Shoulder Height: 170-220 cm / 5.6-7.2 ft. Tail Length: 70-100 cm / 28-40 in. Weight: 700-1000 kg / 1540-2200 lb.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 4, 2020 15:07:22 GMT -5
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