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Amazing wild interspecies conflicts and encounters

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The video that made me sick and I couldn't finish was the hyenas eating the wildebeest alive. I kept thinking, ok cmon this has to end at some point. But it keeps going. The wildebeest even keeps trying to run away. Doesn't it have arteries down there that would make it bleed out and die fast?
 
Feature said:
I like these fights and I don't mind the animals dieing because that's just nature and they're doing it to survive. They're using the tools nature gave them and nothing else. Unlike scumbag hunters with their guns.
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A gun is also a tool crafted from nature.

We started out just biting and swinging as well maaang!
 
bengraven said:
The goat was dead the second it hit that first rock, which was just seconds after the attack began. Just in case someone wants to come in here and get upset.

It's nature folks.
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I doubt many people feel outraged by stuff like this, because like you say: "it's nature folks". At best one can only feel sorry for the animal getting killed. But even then: predators have to eat as well. Different story off course when humans start meddling. But that's not what this thread is about.
 
One of my favorite examples of interspecies conflict is this documented attack by a pod of killer whales on a pod of sperm whales. It didn't end up well for the sperm whales:

http://swfsc.noaa.gov/uploadedFiles/Divisions/PRD/Programs/Ecology/PitmanandChivers1998NH.pdf

The battle has reached its peak. Several sperm whales have been dragged away from the rosette and are being savagely attacked. One of the largest rolls slowly over on its side like a sinking ship and appears to be very near death. Then, as if on cue, a bull killer whale rushes in. He broadsides the isolated sperm whale, pushing it side-ways through the water. Like an angry dog, he seizes it by the flanks and shakes it violently from side to side, then swings it around in an arc, throwing up huge sprays of water.

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A pod of whales that may have spent decades traveling the North Pacific together has been devastated. Instead of targeting a specific individual during the attacks, the killer whales appear to have attacked at random. As a result, every member of the herd has been injured, and all may die from wounds received this morning. One has been disemboweled, its intestines draped over its back and floating alongside. Another rolls over close to our ship; hanging from its side is a huge, yawning slab of blubber, perhaps eight inches thick and as trig as a queen-size mattress. The attackers had been skinning this whale alive. The killer whales killed more this morning than they could possibly eat: hundreds of tons of flesh are left behind. We are struck by the tremendous waste. Leaving the remaining sperm whales, we silently watch them still trying, with little apparent success, to form a rosette as they disappear in our wake.
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The article describes the whole process of how the attack took place. There's also this video on Youtube, but obviously since they weren't exactly the BBC documentary crew, there weren't any good underwater shots.

I wish there were a shot (or at least one that I could find) of 26,000 pound whale being swung by its tail by a male orca. That had to be amazing to see.
 
flak57 said:
No epic lion vs hyena battles posted?

The war begins -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CTZvEhjuU

The male lion gets revenge for the pride and kills the hyena matriarch -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoNmQX09rX0

Edit: Another vid -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQprMCe20A
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Epic.

Fuck, i forgot how frightning hyena's laughs were. Imagine being surrounded by that during a camping trip.


EDIT: LMAO In that highlighted video at 1:40 there is a Fox that watches all of this go down and is like "Fuck this shit, i'm out."
 
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Cuban Legend said:
I LOVE THIS THREAD, THANK YOU GAF

keep em coming, I could spend hours re-watching all these amazing videos!
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Thank you. Will continue updating this thread.
 
Leopards are some of the most amazing animals I've ever seen. It's kind of the perfect big cat. It's not as large as a tiger or lion but it's so ridiculously agile and cunning that I'd be much more willing to encounter a lion in the wild than a leopard. I feel like I would have a chance to avoid a lion by climbing up a tree or diving somewhere, but a leopard would just fuck me up wherever I go, lol. Tigers of course will fuck me up fairly quickly. Their aggression is unmatched (well, except maybe in leopards).

Tigers and leopards >>>>>>>>>>>>> Lions
 
Soulscribe said:
Leopards are some of the most amazing animals I've ever seen. It's kind of the perfect big cat. It's not as large as a tiger or lion but it's so ridiculously agile and cunning that I'd be much more willing to encounter a lion in the wild than a leopard. I feel like I would have a chance to avoid a lion by climbing up a tree or diving somewhere, but a leopard would just fuck me up wherever I go, lol. Tigers of course will fuck me up fairly quickly. Their aggression is unmatched (well, except maybe in leopards).

Tigers and leopards >>>>>>>>>>>>> Lions
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Jaguars are bigger and just as cunning. ;b
 
Ghost_Protocol said:
That last scene with the lion holding the dead cheetah in its mouth while the other cheetah just watches deserves a caption.
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the lion needs to be corporations... and the the cheetah watching needs to be OWS
 
I remember seeing a video of a lioness or more making a kill and hyenas stealing the kill.
Lioness goes back to pride, growls something at the male, he goes storming off and kills several of the hyenas. One with a single swipe in full flight and gets the kill back
 
Free Willy was the greatest PR for the Orcas. They literally can do no wrong in the eyes of some people, lol. They hunt Great Whites and the response is "That is so cool"
 
Log4Girlz said:
Its a shame that you don't really see elephants with tusks anymore. I've seen videos at the turn of the last century that showed every damn elephants with tusks down to the ground. They were known to gore just about anything.
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Some are being born without tusks
 
MrOogieBoogie said:
Fun fact about ligers: they are extremely timid, slow, and incapable of surviving on their own. They are also dumber and weaker than your average lion or tiger.
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thats good because they are fucking huge and if they were rabid deathbeasts ...i dunno what could stop something that fucking nasty.
 
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