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01-05-2019, 05:32 PM( This post was last modified: 01-05-2019, 05:37 PM by Shadow )
At least some of your information is also from Corbett and some might think him as reliable source, I am not at all convinced about him. So different kind of stories from him compared to others. And also when looking videos available, nothing even close to what Corbett claims.
Difference when talking about gorillas and tigers for instance is, that about gorillas we have very little footage, where we could see gorillas doing something really demanding what comes to limits of their strength. So it is very difficult to make conclusions.
About tigers then again we have several videos, where they drag carcasses, and in those videos, where carcasses are bigger ones, we also see clearly effort. Not easy dragging just like that indicating, that tiger would be able to drag something heavy uphill in rough terrain. So there is big contradiction between some of the most amazing stories and what anyone can see when looking some videos. That of course undermines credibility of some stories.
Could tiger drag something relatively big for 500 meters... I think that it can if enough time and terrain is suitable (not too much friction and/or rough terrain).
I mean, looking at these videos:
Quite hard to imagine that tiger dragging even 300 kg animal uphill for a long distance. So 700 kg bull and adult male, would it be so different?
Then here, easier terrain and reasonable sized prey:
This kind of prey could be for sure dragged a long distance in time. So when some writes about cow or horse, of course there are smaller cows and horses. That could explain some stories which sounds too good to be true when I look for instance cows in Finland (not small ones).