Animal Strength Feats

[Shadow]

(05-26-2019, 01:09 AM)Styx38 Wrote:

(05-25-2019, 11:06 PM)Shadow Wrote: All big cats are strong naturally. All also are able to kill prey animals much heavier and also much stronger than themselves. My opinion is, that if trying to compare strength of big cats, prey animal size is not so clear indicator, because it isn´t about overpowering prey animal, but instead about hunting skills. Bigger the prey is, more it is about skills. Smaller animal can be overpowered, but with bigger ones that is not possible. So there is need to know where to bite and use claws to injure and immobilize.

There is video, where two hyenas kill cape buffalo and make it look like to be easy. But they did it by biting to the right spot. So even though it is clear, that hyena is weaker than lion, still made it look like nothing special :)

Ok, but you do have to admit that they have to tackle down larger animals from time to time to make the kill.

Here is a lioness holding a buffalo cow down:

I think, that I haven´t denied that big cats are strong. I just said, that if making comparisons it is quite difficult to make based on size of big prey animals. All of them take down time to time very heavy prey. But if it would be only about strength, big cats would be extinct :) They have to use skills, speed, agility, teeth and claws. Certain level of strength is of course necessary in situation like in this video of yours, but naturally a good bite and choking buffalo helps a lot. It is easy for buffalo to lift something like 120-150 kg, but not when it is biting and hanging from the neck. Reply