Animal Strength Feats

[Balam]

(05-20-2023, 11:03 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(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.

Crazy, I can't imagine the struggle the Jaguar had to go through to disengage it's Canine.
That being said, I also can't image a scenario where the Jaguar would survive such an encounter with a live Buffalo. It would be far too vulnerable to being flung around with it's tooth lodged in it's horn. My guess is an accident during feeding, is there any proof of a predation or scavenging?

In the description of the YouTube video Dr. May stated that the event was a "fight" between the buffalo and the jaguar. My guess is either the buffalo cornered the jaguar and forced it to fight, or the jaguar tried to attack the buffalo and kill it with a bite to the skull, ripping the horn and canine in the process. 

Not only are jaguars unnaturally strong, they are also extremely resilient. On late 2021 Kadu, until recently the largest and dominant male at Pousada Piuval in the northern Pantanal, went viral after he engaged on a gruesome fight with a rival male over mating rights. The adversary not only ripped apart the upper lip of Kadu, but also likely destroyed the upper canine where the damaged lip was under because Kadu lost it. That didn't stop Kadu from completely healing the injury and it didn't affect his survival.

He was last seen on late 2022 and it is believed to have been pushed out of the territory by newer and younger male Trovão.

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