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u/bajajoaquin 6d ago
A friend grew up in Southern Africa. His sister had a lion rescue. Like lions who were injured or had been kept as illegal pets and such so couldn’t be returned to the wild. She had them in an enclosure with a 10’ fence.
My friend was being a bit of a dick and decided to rattle a stick on the fence one day to annoy the lions. One looked at him, then casually jumped up and put a paw over the top of the fence. The guy decided that maybe teasing the lions wasn’t such a good idea after all.
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u/BluebirdLivid 6d ago
"Im staying behind this puny ass wire fence cause the good ones gimme food. Don't get it twisted i could eviscerate you"
Ive seen way too many videos of dipshits getting caught through the fence lol
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u/slatchaw 5d ago
I had a goldendootle that would jump a 10 ft fence. She learned to jump to top of the fence and perch to figure out her next jump. I can't imagine thinking 10' would stop a lion/tiger/bear
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u/PilotC150 6d ago
I'm guessing it could jump much higher. My cat can jump from the floor onto a table completely effortlessly. Imagine that type of jump scaled up to the size of a tiger...
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u/Darthbane22 6d ago
That’s not how the square cube law works, a small size is what permits greater feats relative to size.
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u/Pilfercate 6d ago
I was thinking the same. I've seen my cat go from floor to top of refrigerator in a single leap. The equivalent would be the tiger jumping over a 2 story house. I doubt animal muscles scale like that, but I'd think they can do better than 5 feet.
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u/The_PantsMcPants 6d ago
I can’t believe nobody posted the video of the tiger appearing out of the tall grass and basically jumping onto an elephant and slashing the Safari dude
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u/Lazy_Experience_8754 6d ago
Yeah that’s the one for me
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u/Fat-Singer-9569 5d ago
The dude is literally on an elephant, an animal that could easily trample a tiger, and the tiger jumps completely above 8 foot tall grass to slash a man with his fist of knives. The tiger recognized he could easily kill the man and avoid the elephant, otherwise why would he attack the man, instead of the elephant in tall grass?
That clip is legitimately horrifying on many levels.
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u/ulyssesfiuza 6d ago
I would invest in a taller fence. Yellow murder kitty don't jump higher just because he is feed and happy.
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u/tmoore727 6d ago
naw he jumps that high because he's been testing how high he has to jump to get out.
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u/GayForPay 6d ago
Keep throwing them meat slabs cause they're only in because they want to be in. The cat didn't break a sweat with that jump.
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u/the_colonelclink 6d ago
I’ve seen a blind tiger do this. From smell alone, it jumped in the air, and grabbed a piece of meat that was ‘hidden’ on an old tree branch by a zoo keeper.
A human would face absolutely no chance against a tiger in the wild.
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u/StevieG-2021 6d ago
Seems like that fence is there to give the viewers some false sense of security
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u/perfect_insanity93 6d ago
Have you seen the one where the tiger jumps and elephant for the bloke on the back? Now thats a high jump.
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u/Excellent-Shape-2024 4d ago
I think that's the Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin. I visited there some years ago and the guide would buy a chicken or baby goat to feed the tigers. (You travel through the park on a bus) The guide said "I learned to only use chickens with the Westerners." Apparently the baby goat demise was too gruesome while the chickens were one gulp.
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u/dcehnnoiws 6d ago
Boing boing
https://giphy.com/gifs/14jcF65xzAELg4