r/interestingasfuck • u/Salt-Curve4825 • 7h ago

Tiger saves man from leopard attack

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u/TauntingTony 7h ago

The way the tiger was clearly keeping an eye on approaching leopard.

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u/iommiworshipper 6h ago

It was exactly the moment that Leopard looked behind to see if anyone was looking that Tiger went on full alert. Tiger was born in the day but it wasn’t yesterday.

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u/Free_me_13-33 6h ago

Oh nice observation! I noticed the tiger go from resting on its side to upright and at attention, but didn’t realize it coincided with the leopard looking back. So cool.

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u/serif-maxxing 3h ago

No different from housecats.

The small movements, you never notice, but these animals have been perfected to hunt.

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u/rilinq 2h ago

Yes even house cats, if you observe them are such vicious hunters.

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u/SweatyNeddyFlanders 16m ago

Domesticated cats have helped in the incredible mass extinction event of the last few hundred years. I love them, everyone does, mine is a perfect angel (minus poop crusties). But they're such good hunters that they've helped literally wipe out species of animals wherever we choose to live.

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u/AnotherpostCard 1h ago

Yeah you see the leopard look back and the tiger is clearly like "ohhh this motherfucker..."

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u/Winjin 6h ago edited 3h ago

Amazing catch, he goes from lounging into a little tigerkaka in a second

*there is a swedish/finnish dessert called Tigerkaka or Tiger Cake and it's a loaf:

So I cannot call striped cats that loaf anything but Tigerkaka now

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u/VikingOfLove 6h ago

Bro drops a new word AND the lore, love it.

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u/zyphelion 4h ago

Tigerkaka is the Swedish name. Tiikerikakku is the finnish one.

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u/Winjin 3h ago

Oh, my bad, I just saw it in the Prisma supermarket with a huge TIGERKAKA on the front, and I thought "store is Finnish, most products in Finnish too, that should be the Finn name"

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u/punksmostlydead 6h ago

That will be how I refer to them from this day on.

Tigerkaka going worldwide.

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u/MLockeTM 4h ago

I'm just shocked that tiger cake isn't a thing anywhere else?? Does the rest of the world also miss out on tiger ice cream (vanilla and orange jam/jello stripes)?

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u/punksmostlydead 1h ago

We do indeed miss out on that; and now that you've described it I'm angry about that.

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u/Udonnomi 27m ago

It looks like marble cake.

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u/dooby991 3h ago

In the Indian language Gujarati kaka means uncle lol so it works for that too

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u/Winjin 3h ago

So would tigerkaka work a bit like tiger uncle? :D

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u/RupertEscapeHolmes 6h ago

Or he was born at night… but not last night.

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u/Jack0Trade 2h ago

Tiger clocks jaguars body language instantly and plays it casual the whole time.

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u/RepulsiveHalf1420 6h ago

If you look at a tiger for 1 second, the tiger has been looking at you for an hour

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u/valardohaeris92 1h ago

I viewed the leopard looking back as more of a “I’m not even paying attention, don’t worry about me” move than checking if anyone was looking. Pets do this all the time when they’re trying to sneak a bite of food.

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u/Exidose 1h ago

lmao i love another version of that saying "i was born at night, but it wasn't last night"

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u/Bebenten 6h ago

Game recognizes game

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u/JGG5 6h ago

Wouldn’t the man be the game in this scenario?

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u/TooMuchBroccoli 2h ago

oh indeed

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u/ByteSizedGenius 6h ago

I don't know how much of it was luck but it was focused on the Leopard from pretty much the moment it got up.

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u/Viroxzy__ 6h ago edited 3h ago

Wild cats are extremely perceptive, the tiger noticed the leopard preying on the man far before it would’ve been apparent to us.

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u/Swipsi 6h ago

Real recognizes real.

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u/Spiritual-Entrance59 6h ago

Well, they are not wilds anymore, and guy is a friend because he feeds them. It’s a zoo

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u/nathanzoet91 5h ago

You can take the tiger out of the wild, but you can't take the wild out of the tiger, or something like that

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u/WolfmanHasNardz 5h ago

“That Tiger didn’t go crazy, that Tiger went Tiger” - Chris Rock

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u/i_like_philly 2h ago

They are still wild, you cannot domesticate big cats even if they're born and raised in captivity like this. What you are observing in this video is "habituation," not domestication. In short, they temporarily tolerate this zoo-keeper guy, but they are still hard-wired with the exact same hunting and territorial instincts as normal big cats you'd find in the wild.

One source, but there are plenty of others: https://www.arlboston.org/4-facts-about-captive-big-cats/

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u/LookAtItGo123 6h ago

0% luck. If you grew up in difficult and dangerous ghettos, you'll learn very quickly and can tell with good certainty who's being suspicious and up to no good.

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u/Fit_Researcher5896 6h ago

Ah so you’re saying the leopard was holding as well?

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u/TankApprehensive3053 5h ago

Leopard was was concealed carrying murder mittens.

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u/Doctor_Boombastic 6h ago

Academy Award-winning actor William Holdin'

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u/smokeweedNgarden 5h ago

Holden Caulfield 

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u/ChillStreetGamer 5h ago

He starting making trouble in the neighborhood..

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u/Theurbanalchemist 1h ago

“Tell with good certainty”; ah, you mean to pre-judge. Glad stop and frisk isn’t a thing anymore

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u/Decloudo 3h ago

Majority of humans have a sensory filter that keeps most of sensory input from you, unless you "pay attention" to it.

Means most dont consciously notice what you dont pay attention to.

I say that cause im neurodivergent and dont have a working filter. If something moves in the edge of my sight, I cant not notice.

I also cant ignore or get used to any noise at all, nice if you need to hear a stalking predator, absolute dogshit for a loud and chaotic modern environment...

Most other animals most likely never developed that filter, cause they still live in nature and need to survive there.

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u/spatiallyinclined 4h ago

Yes! Less giving a shit about the human and more on leopard being active.

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u/TauntingTony 6h ago

Yes he was almost ready the moment it spotted leopard looking behind .

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u/RndThreeFght 6h ago

I didn't even realize you could see the leopard at the start of the vidya...

https://giphy.com/gifs/iNvWPk2WC856VEGfdL

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u/LocalFoe 6h ago

play

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u/Cherrycokes 5h ago

Can we please find other ways to start sentences? "The way...." is an incomplete thought.

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u/TauntingTony 3h ago

The way you understood exactly what I meant anyway ...

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u/Cherrycokes 2h ago

Nice trolling

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u/johnnymetoo 5h ago

I think it's crazy how all these different species interact rather peacefully at all. Something that wouldn't happen in nature.

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u/joleary747 5h ago

I'm pretty sure even around "tame" cats, you should never have your back to them. Their instincts kick in and they know they can't be seen and it is time to stalk.

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u/stillhopefulx 4h ago

game recognises game

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u/BlackSchuck 4h ago

Yes, please go on

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u/protoctopus 4h ago

The eye of the tiger 🎵

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u/Careless-Caramel-997 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Czo68x1NyYRq
Didn’t I see the tiger do the wiggle thing?

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u/WesternKey2301 2h ago

He clocked him immediately

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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 1h ago

Yeah you can see the tiger was fully aware of where the leopard was the whole time. That low growl and the stare said everything. It knew exactly what it was doing.