Sumo Wrestler vs. Orangutan in a game of tug of war
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Lonely baby seal shunned by his colony for being ginger
Having reddish-brown fur and the palest of blue eyes. The rest of its sleek black family took an instant dislike to the ginger pup, leaving it to fend for itself.
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The pup sits on its own up the beach while other seals group by the water.
Man, that’s super fucking sad. Why’d you have to ruin my day?
A sad case of natural selection, I want to hug it forever.:oops:
As for the Sumo vs Orangutan, that from the Fox special Man versus Beast.
… i forgot to add that its also partially blind… it was hiding under a pile of logs (2nd and 3rd photo) when the photographer first spotted it.
And now he’ll start the lonely journey out of Seal Africa to Seal Europe to start a breed all his own…and 40 years from now his ancestors will be oppressing regular seals.
You have a link to the original story?
Eh, situational. There’s been instances where predators begin to get old and start to hunt humans rather than their normal, more difficult to catch prey. Plenty of man-eating legends have spawned from this. Those gotta go. I’ll take the human villagers over some damn cat, bear, etc. Mother nature won’t miss some old decrepit predator. Kill it.
But jump into the proverbial ‘lion’s den’, expect shit like that polar bear incident to happen. Hunting it down to kill it doesn’t accomplish anything but petty vengeance. (Although if it killed a family member of mine, I’d probably hunt it down as well…but I’m a petty vengeance type of guy.)
Why the heck did you drag this back up again?
lol my bad. I was reading the thread and that post kinda irritated me. Didn’t look at the date to be honest
i dont see a problem with anyone giving there opinons on previous discussions.
Thanks. Although that ginger seal up there is adorable. Sad story. Boo survival of the fittest.
Exactly, situational. In this situation it posed a threat. So yeah I think we have to disagree on this. Decrepit predators do the same thing but fit predators also can conform to hunting easier prey, “path of least resistance” if you will.
To be honest I’m too much of a lazy ass right now to go a few pages back, but I’m assuming this happened on a trip to a normally uninhabited Arctic island right? That bear didn’t pose much of a threat to any indigenous population I’m assuming. It’s not like I’m some sort of tree-hugger animal lover, (although my Fluttershy avatar would say otherwise) but I think it’s reaching to claim that it was killed for anything other than vengeance. Man eaters can only exist where people actually live.
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From what I’ve read, healthy, fit maneaters are rare (not including vicious fuckers like Komodos and other reptiles). And I’m talking about legit maneaters, who just forget the rest of their diet and focus on humans. It takes weird situations for them to do this: i.e. the legendary lions in The Ghost and the Darkness supposedly acquired human taste first from dead cadavers that were dumped off during the slave trade. I’m not sure, but I think there were maneaters in Vietnam as well following the war.
Of course if you just jump into a pride of lions, you’d get eaten cuz you’re there, lol. Since our spearchucking days, many predators are wary of us and some even developed a ‘sense’ if we have a weapon or not. Evolution has likely taught them that we are both the easiest and the most difficult prey depending on certain factors, thus the cautionary approach they take with us. Although they can get confused: I remember a story of a mail carrier in some jungle area that did his deliveries on foot for YEARS and was never attacked by a leopard. But the first day he rode a bike, some leopard starting chasing him. I’m assuming the leopard thought the dude wasn’t a human cuz he was moving so fast lol.
obviously everything’s situational and in that situation killing the bear was utterly pointless. The bear didnt even eat anyone so who’s to say it acquired a taste for humans? It was probably pissed that they were encroaching on its territory.
here’s another story of more idiots being killed by bears – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2038635/Hunter-mauled-death-wounded-bear-friend-shot-animal-dead-seconds-late.html?ITO=1490
^^ they were hunting bears so what they hell did the expect when it fought back.
Not really a big fan of hunting things you’re not gonna go ahead and eat. Unless people eat bear?! Sounds gross and extra gamy.
some people do eat bear meat and i’ve heard it tastes better than beef.
I had some back when I was like 8…it tasted like really tender beef. Rich and chewy. Unfortunately grandma only had like a pound and a half of it that she got from a friend whose husband hunted.
O really. Interesting. Time to go hunting! I’ll probably get mauled due to my shitty marksmanship.