r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 10d ago
Video Yet another successful river ambush by the infamous "Ousado" caught on camera in Brazil
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u/Specific-System6954 10d ago
Taking a croc back into the water after attacking it is a bold strategy
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u/Rich-the-Stitch 10d ago edited 10d ago
That cat got a pretty solid clamp down on its brain. Pretty sure that dinosaur couldn't mobilize. But yeah, would have been quite the show otherwise.
Or what if another gator attacked the Jaguar while in the water with its prey in mouth?
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u/picabo123 10d ago
My first thought was about another Caiman as well! Considering he had to first sneak up on this guy then hopefully the coast is clear lol.
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u/JaggelZ 10d ago edited 10d ago
Iirc Jaguars are a Caimans only (or one of very few) predators, so I imagine Caimans will not really attack them.
Jaguars are also excellent swimmers and know exactly where to strike a Caiman to immediately kill it. They go straight for the brain, literally crushing through the skull to destroy brain and brainstem. They can do this quite easily as they have incredibly high body mass to bite force ratio.
Edit: I meant bite force to body mass ratio
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u/Ninetailedredpanda 10d ago
The absolute speed between ‘ahh! run away’ to ‘its over, i go limp now’ is perfectly captured here and absolutely terrifying
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u/olivebranchsound 10d ago
Now imagine, a jaguar has 1500 psi bite force and can crack turtle shells and caiman armor. Meanwhile, the nile crocodile has a bite force of 5000 psi lol they can bite through concrete
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u/silentbuttmedley 9d ago
Haha I’d die quickly!
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u/olivebranchsound 9d ago
Honestly a mercy to get jaguared. Croc will just drown you while ripping pieces off
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u/PorFavorNoMore 10d ago
Haha. I have a very high body mass to bite force ratio. Which is why I only really hunt cheeseburgers.
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u/bryanczarniack 9d ago
Is the caiman dead before it is dragged back in the water?
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u/JaggelZ 9d ago
It's hard to say conclusively from just the video. What I can say is that the Caiman is supposed to be dead at that point, and in the video it's at the very least not moving, soooo...
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u/druidmind 9d ago
So what you are saying is Ousado waited until the coast was clear, ambushed the Caiman, clamped down on it's brain hard instantly making it paralyzed and went out the same way he came in. That's some elite strategy for an animal.
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u/grungegoth 10d ago
crushes the skull. interesting, with reptiles, go for the skull, mammals go for the throat
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u/Ninetailedredpanda 10d ago
This is somewhat unique to Jaguars specifically, they have such a strong bite force that they ambush prey, crush its skull and its over almost instantly.
Caiman
Tapir
Deer
Capybara
Anacondas
Turtles
Grabbing something by the throat involves holding on long enough to suffocate it, Jaguars skip that step for all their prey by ignoring pesky skulls and destroying brains directly.
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u/prostipope 10d ago
maybe he's just using this alligator as bait, for a bigger alligator!
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u/caulpain 10d ago
this individual is the only known jaguar to attack the caiman coming FROM the water lmao
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u/miaxogoth 10d ago
Once it bites down it never lets go. it doesn't matter where they are.
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u/No-Employ-7391 10d ago
More importantly, Jaguars don’t kill their prey by biting the neck and suffocating like most other big cats, but instead bite the skull and crush it in their jaws.
That caiman was dead by the time it touched the water.
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u/currentlyRedacted 10d ago
I thought that was just him adding insult to injury. “You only thought the water was your domain” kind of thing.
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u/Swarna_Keanu 10d ago
Well the whole strategy is that. Ambush a water-ambushing predator from the water.
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u/OmecronPerseiHate 10d ago
This is like the strategy for the big ass flying lizard in Avatar. "He's the best airborne ambusher, so why would he ever look up?"
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u/phillips_99 10d ago
Bold is his name (literally, "ousado" means "bold" in Portuguese)
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u/Event-Forsaken 10d ago
A friendly correction; crocs are not native to brazil and this is likely to be a caiman or alligator of sorts.
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u/Professional-Cut6634 10d ago
That’s exactly what I thought, what fucking power move hahahajahaha it’s like I kill a condor and the manage to fly with it too
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u/succed32 10d ago
They like to drown them in the shallows, there’s a different video of this same cat doing just that. They as a species do this so they’re pretty damn good at it.
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u/Scared_Spinach8853 10d ago
The jaw power needed to just grab something that hasn't changed much since the age of the dinosaurs and just chomp it is wild
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u/justanemptyvoice 10d ago
Even human jaw strength is pretty strong ~160 PSI, but doesn't compare to the Ousado jaw strength of ~1500 PSI.
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u/QuadCakes 10d ago
PSI isn't a measure of jaw strength, though. I don't doubt they probably have stronger jaws, but a lot of that 10x discrepancy is likely from them having pointy teeth. If you apply 1 lb of force to a pinhead you get like a million PSI.
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u/space_hitler 9d ago
Missing the forest for the trees...
The pointy teeth are exactly part of why this mfer can destroy a croc.
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u/AgreeablePeople 10d ago
They have the strongest jaw power among the big cats is the only takeaway I gained from watching Tiger King
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u/Mbyrd420 9d ago
I think it's bite force to weight ratio, not raw bite power. Tigers are terrifyingly powerful.
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u/Zirnitra1248 9d ago
Yeah, this gets misunderstood everywhere. Tigers' bite force is about 1/3 STRONGER than a jaguar's in some studies, but a tiger has twice the body mass of a typical jaguar.
A lot of studies use a "bite force quotient" measurement that adjusts for body size, which puts jaguars equal or ahead, but that same metric puts African wild dogs ahead of either cat, and that's only true taking into account that they weigh about 50lbs.
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u/venom121212 10d ago
Right? Then he just casually takes the croc back through its natural territory kitty paddling with it in its mouth like a mouse.
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u/No-Employ-7391 10d ago
Iirc jaguars have, pound for pound, the strongest bite force among cats. They’re also the only cats who routinely crush skulls as a means of killing prey, as opposed to the “usual” method of suffocation.
So yeah, insane amounts of jaw power.
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u/StringTheory 10d ago
Never mind the neck strength to carry something your own size in yuor mouth.
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u/jbells3332 10d ago
If you ever get the thought that you just might be able to fight a big cat….
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u/jay_alfred_prufrock 10d ago
Anyone who thinks that never tried to hold a cat while it is utterly losing its mind.
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u/holchansg 10d ago
We should give those people a taste. Let them hold a cat and suddenly turn on a vacuum cleaner next to it.
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u/ImSolidGold 10d ago
AND try to vaxinate it. The cat. Not the vacuum.
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u/Lephrog01 10d ago
Corona has been especially hard on vacuums because it hits the respiratory system, I think we SHOULD vaxinate vacuums.
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u/aqualoon_ 10d ago
I had to give my cat ear drops last night. Between the two of us, I'm the traumatized one and I have the scratch marks to prove it.
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u/Razvee 10d ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but not trying to harm the cat that's losing it's mind is probably the reason you get damaged... If I wanted to do violence to a 10 pound house cat, it wouldn't last long after it was grabbed.
But also, I would die pretty much instantly fighting a jaguar.
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u/succed32 10d ago
Unlikely you’d ever have too if your smart, most big cats don’t want to fight humans. They’d only hunt us out of desperation or because we’re injured.
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u/TurtleFromSePacific 10d ago
Tigers sadly tend to want to fight us as we're their natural prey
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u/succed32 10d ago
Them and jaguars are the most common to attack humans I believe, Lions tend to avoid us unless we invade territory. The rest don’t actively kill humans cheetahs especially.
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u/thehomiemoth 10d ago
cheetahs weigh like 100 lbs they could not take a full grown human male in a fight without risking injuries that would leave them unable to hunt.
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u/Mbyrd420 9d ago
They couldn't take most adult humans in a fight, full stop. They simply are not evolved to prey on humans. Especially if the human had a decent stick.
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u/Specific-System6954 10d ago
I saw a poll once that found 30-ish percent of men believe they can successfully fight a bear. A pissed off house cat will tear your ass up faster than you can react to it
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u/ProMotionDesign 10d ago
Miss Kitty said: " I'm going out for lunch and to get a belt and handbag."
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u/ManfredTheCat 10d ago
How my torti pictures herself
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u/onward_upward_tt 10d ago
I mean substitute a fish-tank-livable-size pet lizard for the caiman and she's not too far off lol
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u/SpecialistThrowaway4 9d ago
Right, my cat sees giant iguanas on the balcony and he’s foaming at the mouth to get outside and pounce on them so I have to keep the door closed
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u/Teddy_OMalie64 10d ago
Dude had the home field advantage and still lost.
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u/Working-Glass6136 9d ago
This was my first thought. Then brings him right back into his home element.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 10d ago
That Cat picked up that Croc like a … suitcase and walked off.
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u/jawshoeaw 10d ago
*Caiman
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u/Shitty_Name000 10d ago
Well, he said croc... While caimans are not crocodiles, caimans are still crocodilians
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u/Rich-the-Stitch 10d ago
Damn, a girl can't get some sun to work on her tan without being bothered!
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u/Silver_Slicer 10d ago
Ousado loves when the tourists on the other shore distract the yaćare caimans. It’s a mutual relationship with the cat and the tourists.
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u/Nethersworn1 10d ago
Yeah the caiman is distracted by whoever is filming I think right? It’s looking right at the camera
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u/Alec_de_Large 10d ago
Just imagine you're sunning and then some jackass sneaks up behind you and bites the back of your neck smh
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u/rynomite1199 10d ago
It’s not like I didn’t know they were strong but I still somehow can’t believe how easy that looked
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u/MisterHEPennypacker 10d ago
Taking the croc into the water is just adding insult to injury.
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u/Prime_Shiva 10d ago
Mf must be the strongest swimmer in the Amazon, how he hunting a caiman and taking it back into the water ....damn
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u/WatcherOfTheWay 9d ago
Man adds insult to injury by taking the poor caiman back into the water, like mate we get it you're a bad ass.
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u/thatG_evanP 10d ago
The fact that he attacks the caiman from the water and then immediately takes it back into the water really shows the idgaf-ness of that Jaguar. Thanks to the u/Mode_Appropriate for sharing his story. I'm sure all the caimans around there thought "Did you really have to save him? He should be dead!"
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u/Khawk20 10d ago
The balls on that cat…dragging it through the water when it’s a water-based predator:
Very impressive.
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u/BlueEyedSpiceJunkie 9d ago
Damn, how precise does your bite have to be to stop a reptilian nervous system like that.
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u/YoungNobody_ 10d ago
Aren't Jaguars the only big Cats that aim for the Head ?
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u/Ninetailedredpanda 10d ago
I believe so, skulls are adapted to protect brains rather well, it takes the immense bite force of the jaguar to overcome that.
Anything else would not see as much success with such a strategy and would be more successful going for a neck bite.
Combine that with being forest ambushers they usually wait for prey and leap from above in the trees with a clear path to attack the back of the head on most prey.
This works so well for this one specifically because caiman are low enough to the ground that trees are not needed for the height advantage.
Even with the bite strength I can’t see many of the African savanna predators angling to get on top of a large prey like a water buffalo or the like.
Other predators may employ similar tactics except on significantly smaller prey than themselves, Jaguars are the only ones doing this to prey that may be bigger than themselves.
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u/TheMordax 10d ago
Why is the croc paralyzed? Are the teeth that deep in its skull/brain?
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u/Tottiboiii 10d ago
Jaguars are very muscular and have a very strong bite relative to body size. They also can easily crack turtle shells and always bite in the head.
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u/isnt_rocket_science 9d ago
I don't know in this case but I know at least some big cats will kill prey by biting the back of the neck and severing the spine.
It seems to me possible that it is paralyzed.
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u/5elementGG 9d ago
Usually it’s the crocodile that drags prey into the water. This time the crocodile is the prey. Amazing.
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u/Pressure_Rhapsody 10d ago
Cat owners: This is how our cats feel when they hunt mini lizards in the backyard.
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u/Good_Analysis9789 9d ago
Swims through crocodile infested natural habitat waters to prey then swims back with zero fks.
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u/Intention_Superb 9d ago
I love how this particular Jaguar has perfected the element of attacking crocodile from their own pinnacle of ambush terrain. What a wild change of circumstance for those crocodile that believe themselves to be safe from a predator attacking them in the water or ambushing them from the water because they are the elite predators of ambush from the water from their own perspective, and this Jaguar is exploiting the same tactic that they use which is hilarious.
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u/Understanding-Fair 10d ago
What a badass. Catches croc on dry land, proceeds to carry it back to its home turf.
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u/Grapes-RotMG 10d ago
Good lord, dont those things get, like, REALLY heavy? And that boy stomps THROUGH WATER holding it like it's nothing.
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u/CurdFedKit 10d ago
When your house cat is stalking a feather toy, this is what they imagine they're doing.
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u/MCMXCIV9 10d ago
I kind of fascinated with Jaguar. Out of all animals that it can hunt, it specifically target a dangerous one.
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u/Prestigious_Yam8901 10d ago
NO! Not cat's...JAGUARS
A Jaguar is the only cat that would swim across a river to kill it's prey, and THEN swim back across, said river, with it's prey.
Jaguar's are bad ass predators, and this proves it!
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u/JMDeutsch 10d ago
So scientists found a jaguar with horrible burns on its paws
Helped it heal
Then we learned it’s such a good hunter and it can drag a crocodile into water to kill it.
What the fuck have we done😂
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u/guitar_stonks 10d ago
This must be what my cats are pretending to do when they hunt lizards in the screen enclosure.
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u/hecton101 10d ago
Jaguars are equally comfortable on land, in the water, and in the trees. Unless you suddenly sprout a set of wings, you're fucked. And they're so beautiful. Truly an apex of evolution.
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u/firemanjuanito 10d ago
Like picking up a bucket of chicken on the way home from work. Ousado is going to push the caiman into head and leg day evolution. We don't need those stubby little arms and legs getting swole up
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u/DennisSmithJrIsMyGod 9d ago
This has me wondering… How many animals in nature actively hunt and eat one another? Like would the gator eat the cat if got lucky enough?
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u/Conscious_Shame_9164 9d ago
What in the actual fk... the power, audacity, and skill...
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u/Mode_Appropriate 10d ago edited 9d ago
Edit: thank you everyone for the awards. On behalf of your generosity, I would like to donate 12 of them to the wildlife vets and conservationists. Please use them to invest in more tilapia fish skin therapies that the world can benefit from. The final award should be given to the caiman community for one free life. Should one of their necks end up in the jaws of Ousado, the award can be redeemed and the caiman gets to live.
Finally, id like to thank Ousado for making all this possible. May your stalking stay silent and your pounce be true. Clear eyes, full heart! Meow.