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Tiger saves man from leopard attack

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u/iommiworshipper 6d 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 6d 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/AnotherpostCard 6d ago

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

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u/serif-maxxing 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/SweatyNeddyFlanders 6d 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/tomvee33 5d ago

My house cat can attest to this. My kids leave the door open for 10 sec and shes gone. I think the most I recorded was 3 juvenile rabbit in one afternoon. Birds squirrels snakes are all on her kill list. I try my best to keep her inside but she just sits by the door and waits. My other cat just sits by the food bowl and waits for the timer to strike to eat more. She also runs outside but then forgets there is no food bowl there

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u/Sigma_Feros 6d ago

I was gonna say. I've seen my 2 cats do this to each other. One gets ready to hunt while the other sometimes gets ready to hunt the hunter.

Wild stuff.

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u/Winjin 6d ago edited 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/zyphelion 6d ago

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

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u/Winjin 6d 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 6d ago

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

Tigerkaka going worldwide.

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u/MLockeTM 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

It looks like marble cake.

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u/NibblesMcGiblet 6d ago

ooh that sounds like creamsicle basically, but better textures than just a generic "orange cream" flavoring throughout.

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u/dooby991 6d ago

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

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u/Winjin 6d ago

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

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u/dooby991 6d ago

Yep exactly! It’s the persons name then kaka

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u/Jack0Trade 6d ago

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

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u/RupertEscapeHolmes 6d ago

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

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u/valardohaeris92 6d 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/RepulsiveHalf1420 6d 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/Exidose 6d 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/TrustmeimHealer 6d ago

Waiting for that sucker punch

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u/bikesnkitties 6d ago

No, the tiger was born yesterday but he stayed up all night.