Animal Strength Feats

[Ngonya]

(05-20-2023, 10:20 PM)Balam Wrote: @Pckts @peter @epaiva @Ngonya 

Some time ago I remember having a conversation with Pckts about the possible interactions of jaguars with feral buffaloes in the Pantanal. At that time we only had records of jaguars killing buffaloes in Colombia and Brazil in ranches, but none recorded in the Pantanal.

Recently, Panthera/Onçafari biologist Joares May released a video where he showed the horn's cape of an adult water buffalo cow that was ripped off by a jaguar in a predation attempt. not only did the jaguar rip off the buffalo's horn cape, but also its own canine in the process. Imagine the strength require to pull such a feat in both bite force and neck muscle strenght.

This happened by Panthera's Fazenda Jofre Velho in Porto Jofre, northern Pantanal, where there are plentiful feral water buffaloes and where buffaloes are also used to guard cattle herds because they are much more combative towards jaguars. These are not tamed domestic animals:

I did my best translating the video on my community with English subtitles here.

also thank you very much for the mention in the post. Yes u did a pretty good job in translating the video. Also i love to see it, jaguars are such uniques animals and i was wondering these days if we had any reports of them hunting buffalo in pantanal. I was also thinking about how would they do it? I guess suffocating would be the most efficient way Reply