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OT: A new animal to be afraid of....

I worked with a bunch of animals in South Africa when I was in Veterinary school- we relocated rhinos, sable, wildebeast and and one giraffe, and by far the scariest was the giraffe. The Rhinos, after being drugged, kinda just did what we wanted but the giraffe was kicking wildly (think of a horse kick with legs multiple times as long).

Actually all of the animals are potentially terrifying just due to their strength compared to us. Me and another 200lb guy where holding each cotrolling a horn on an anesthetized sable who decided to lift its head and easily picked us both off the ground. We are lucky that most of us have these big brains to compensate for our physical limitations. Brock lesner may be able to physically compete with the animals
 
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We may be at the top of the food chain but....I’m not getting close to a 15 foot tall and 2,500 lbs beast.
 
I fed a bunch of Giraffe's at a zoo last year. I'm still disturbed by their tongues. I recognize this adds next to nothing to the thread, but holy crap, those tongues...

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boog204 said:
I fed a bunch of Giraffe's at a zoo last year. I'm still disturbed by their tongues. I recognize this adds next to nothing to the thread, but holy crap, those tongues...

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It looks like a snake coming out of its mouth
 
Robertelamin said:
We may be at the top of the food chain but....I’m not getting close to a 15 foot tall and 2,500 lbs beast.
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We're only at the top of the food chain when we have a large caliber gun or rifle in hand. Otherwise we fall somewhere in the mid range or perhaps even below that, depending upon the size and type of creature we're confronted with.
 
UConnNick said:
We're only at the top of the food chain when we have a large caliber gun or rifle in hand. Otherwise we fall somewhere in the mid range or perhaps even below that, depending upon the size and type of creature we're confronted with.
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Yeah, a great white shark, croc, lion, tiger, or bear (oh my!) would say hello........as well as many, many others.
 
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UConnNick said:
We're only at the top of the food chain when we have a large caliber gun or rifle in hand. Otherwise we fall somewhere in the mid range or perhaps even below that, depending upon the size and type of creature we're confronted with.
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Yeah no snow. That’s why we are on top and put these dumb animals in zoos. I don’t get your point.
 
And I thought this was going to be a bigfoot / dogman thread
 
To add to this thread,

Human decides to take selfie with injured bear, bear kills human.
Florida driver hits alligator crossing I-95 in South Carolina, car spins out of control off road killing mother and two children.
Leopard snatches a ranger's 3-year kid at a national park in Uganda. Dinner served.
And in Zimbabwe a bride to be has arm bitten off by crocodile a few days before the big ceremony.


Yeah, without a gun or weapon we are way down in to the fat part of the bell curve of animal dominance.
 
Chin Diesel said:
To add to this thread,

Human decides to take selfie with injured bear, bear kills human.
Florida driver hits alligator crossing I-95 in South Carolina, car spins out of control off road killing mother and two children.
Leopard snatches a ranger's 3-year kid at a national park in Uganda. Dinner served.
And in Zimbabwe a bride to be has arm bitten off by crocodile a few days before the big ceremony.
Yeah, without a gun or weapon we are way down in to the fat part of the bell curve of animal dominance.
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Hell, a hoard of rats or even ants can make relatively quick work of a human.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Yeah, without a gun or weapon we are way down in to the fat part of the bell curve of animal dominance.
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Or pack hunting, which is what gave rise to human ascension to the top of the food chain. Not that the bulk of us really have those those skills anymore.

I've told the story here before, I think, about my interaction with bear in the Adirondacks. Long story short, their were six of us and on of him and he wasn't the least bit intimidated. Us on the other hand...
 
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CL82 said:
Or pack hunting, which is what gave rise to human ascension to the top of the food chain. Not that the bulk of us really have those those skills anymore.

I've told the story here before, I think, about my interaction with bear in the Adirondacks. Long story short, their were six of us and on of him and he wasn't the least bit intimidated. Us on the other hand...
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Just remember, you don't have to be faster than the bear. Just can't be slowest human.
#alwaysnaturewalkwithafatty
 
boog204 said:
I fed a bunch of Giraffe's at a zoo last year. I'm still disturbed by their tongues. I recognize this adds next to nothing to the thread, but holy crap, those tongues...

giraffe-tongue.png
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Wait is this Ja Ja Binks' family member?
 
Chin Diesel said:
Just remember, you don't have to be faster than the bear. Just can't be slowest human.
#alwaysnaturewalkwithafatty
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In this particular group I wasn't 100% I wouldn't be the slowest, so I had decide which of them I was going to shove to the ground.

#beprepared
 
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CL82 said:
Or pack hunting, which is what gave rise to human ascension to the top of the food chain. Not that the bulk of us really have those those skills anymore.

I've told the story here before, I think, about my interaction with bear in the Adirondacks. Long story short, their were six of us and on of him and he wasn't the least bit intimidated. Us on the other hand...
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That's really it. It's tool use and brainpower. We rose to the top of the food chain long before gunpowder. Fire, clubs, bows and arrows, swords, and the ability to construct shelters. The average medieval castle as pretty much safe from most animals. But our skillset and awareness are so low now. 150 years ago, the six of you wouldn't venture into the Adirondacks unless you were prepared to meet and deal with a bear. Now people think going into nature is like going to the mall.

The ocean is where we're still further down, except when in a boat or submarine. No use of fire, melee weapons useless, we can't breathe underwater and are weak swimmers. Even a 4 foot sandshark is more than a match for most humans.
 
huskyrob1 said:
Read this.....


Meet the deadliest single animal in recorded history: The Champawat Tigress (9 Photos)
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This is amazing. What a specimen.

Funniest part is the article acts as a tiger conservation effort towards the end.

I was a little dissappointed that the Colonel assembled 300 guys to trap it. I feel like with warrior of that magnitude, you should have to kill it mano y mano. He did face it down alone though.

Don't think I didn't notice that little tidbit about Gustave the Nile Croc either. 300+ and still truckin. Go Gustave Go!
 
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Mr. French said:
Dude, I just spent like 45 minutes reading about killer animals. Thanks.
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What's unfortunate is that not only today are tigers endangered but are on average smaller than they were around 1900, for the simple reason that big game hunters shot all the large males for trophies. It was open season on them into the early 1960's.
 
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Mr. French said:
Dude, I just spent like 45 minutes reading about killer animals. Thanks.
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Corbett's book is great read, from hunting man eaters, trout fishing in the Himalayas, the magnificent forests which are gone now. He saw it coming, too. Corbett National Park in the Himalayan foothills is named after him. A movie was made in the late 1940's very loosely based on his book, surprised Spielberg or James Cameron haven't tried to film it.

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"Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world
is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding
on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see."
- Jack Handey
 
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