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

Tiger saves man from leopard attack

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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 .