Animal Strength Feats

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(12-15-2016, 12:22 PM)peter Wrote: Why do wild tigers fight dangerous animals at times? Nobody knows, but I think they, at regular intervals, need to get rid of their energy and, for that reason, pick a fight with an animal that can kill them.

Anger or extreme rage is the reason. Sometimes something attacks them mentally (very strongly) and they don't have too many options to let it out: letting it out on another male might risk revenge later, letting it out on a female might risk a loss of possible future offspring. So they target usually large animals that can inflict serious injury instead of weaker, more vulnerable prey. Greater physical resistance results in greater physical alleviation. I think this energy is held-in rage.

But this is opposite in humans. An angry person prefers to let out on a person of smaller size rather than a person that can inflict serious injuries. Maybe this difference is due to big cats (especially tigers) having a "killer instinct" and viewing everything, bigger and smaller, as potential prey. This means that that 1000-pound bear at the edge of the forest or that one-tonne gaur inside the plains clearing, or even a small 400-pound sambar are all prey. I've had a few thoughts of this type of behavior myself when I was younger, and if I think them now I will lose complete sanity.

When we get angry (and filled with negative energy), we (even the strongest of us) wouldn't actually incite a physical altercation with a bull gorilla. But an angry tiger, if he/she feels like so, would easily do so. Reply