An unmentioned marsupial predator of Australia, the tiger quoll is quite an unknown animal even to most of Australia's citizens.

It is such a great pound-for-pound hunter, endlessly grappling animals many times its body weight, and at lesser times, smaller grub and insects/worms.

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If any of you have any data, documents, and pictures and videos on this relatively-unknown yet physically capable marsupial, then post whatever you have on this topic.

Hello everyone,

I wanted to begin a post to try to synthesize images known specimens of Dusicyon australis, the warrah or Falkland Islands fox. Personally, I find it very interesting to compile known images of extinct animals, and this particular species has been in the news it seems yearly with a new study. I see this forum and Carnivora forum as being somewhat complimentary - with Carnivora being more of a storehouse of broad information. There is indeed a species profile that I have contributed to there, so I will likely not repeat all information; however, I do feel it would be appropriate to list images of known specimens of D. australis for convenience sake for those surfing the web. Certainly, I appreciate when someone has already made these compilations for me . Any contributions are welcome. 


I am missing images of the specimen from Philadelphia Museum. This would complete the set of known pelts/taxiderms according to Jansen & Mije (2015). 





BMNH 34.3.15.47; male, collected on East, Natural History Museum, London, UK






BMNH 34.3.15.48, female collected on West; Natural History Museum, London, UK





KBIN 1032; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences




KBIN 1032; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (1)





NRM A581570; mounted skin male wolf; Swedish Museum of Natural History










OMNH VT2369; Otago Museum of Natural History

More images from this museum located on the museum website: http://otagomuseum.nz/collections/search...ion/VT2369





RMNH.MAM.19111; probably from East Falklands. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden


RMNH.MAM.19111; probably from East Falklands. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (1)




RMNH.MAM.19111; probably from East Falklands. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden


RMNH.MAM.19111; probably from East Falklands. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (1)




RMNN.MAM.19113; from East Falkland, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden


RMNN.MAM.19113; from East Falkland, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (1)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lael...B_EVO_BLOG 
 
The Battle for the Bone Wars Beasts

Multihorned, saber-toothed herbivores set the stage for one of paleontology's greatest conflicts
 

http://www.nhm.org/site/research-collect...lb-mammals 
 
I find it interesting that in the ancient tar pits of Southern California there have been found the remains of 4,000+ dire wolves ( Canis dirus ), 2,000 saber-toothed cats ( Smilodon fatalis ), and 30+ short-faced bears ( Arctodus simus ). 
 

Will the polar bear survive the oncoming weather changes? Can he possibly survive on his native turf, the North Pole? Or, will he be forced to move southward in a desperate attempt to adjust to new environments and a new diet? 
  

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Chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas have been known to exert great strength, particularly in the fields of pulling, horizontal pushing, deadlifting, gripping, and tearing motions.

Do any of you have any accounts/proven feats of strength (best sources from scientific articles) for any of these apes?

I have seen many anecdotes of their strength, but I am not sure if I can trust those anecdotes. Isn't there a video of an orangutan pulling some sumo wrestlers in a tug-o-war? 

Humans, during a extreme surge of adrenaline, can do things that seem almost out of this world. All primates/suids also have this ability of trancing themselves in this accelerated state by providing adrenaline to their muscles in order to access total neuro-muscular efficiency.

The statement that we don't use 100% of our muscles is 100% false. The fact is, adrenaline increases our neuro-muscular efficiency, allowing us to strike faster, albeit with equal efficiency and precision; allowing increased brute strength, stamina, and explosive power; and allowing increased mental/spatial awareness.

However, many people die of adrenaline rushes because that amount of adrenaline can allow the muscle cells within the muscle to corrupt and misform. An adrenaline rush has been known tp cause several stokes, cardiac arrests, and even Parkinson's in one case.

A 100-pound woman can become just as strong as 280-pound professional wrestler Aleksandr Karelin when both are within an adrenaline surge. This is the beauty of an adrenaline-filled primate; a small female can be just as strong as the alpha male of the group under this circumstance. However, the less muscle one has, the more adrenaline that has to be provided to maximize the body's performance, thus a greater risk of the negative side-effects associated with an adrenaline rush. Basically, a person with more muscle will release less adrenaline because of his/her greater natural muscle mass.

Now, regarding adrenaline-rushed humans fending off animals, yeah, some humans have fought off lions, leopards, wolves, etc... but have almost never killed them off without the use of weapons, only merely intimidated them. Despite faked accounts of humans killing wild animals bare-handed, there are taped and well-recorded accounts and events of humans killing police dogs/domestic dogs/very small wild animals.

What do you all think?

Bears (regardless of species) are capable of incredibly amazing feats of strength and power that no human is capable of even replicating; even a small bear fits under this rule. They are similar to felines in this regard, as well.

From my sight-seeings and research about all types of bears, I've come up with several conclusions:

-Bears have the most developed scapula and deltoid arrangement of any carnivore, resulting in the "shoulder hump" phenomena in comparison to big cats (especially brown bears and Agriotherium.)

-Despite what people say about big cat power, bears can be just as explosive as big cats at equal weights.

What do you guys think?

We all know that there are plenty of accounts of leopards predating on gorillas, mainly by ambush, but rarely head-on.

Same thing with Malay/Sumatran tigers and oranguatans.

What do you guys think about primate/predator interaction, not including humans? Do any of you possess any data on this topic?