Tiger Attack!

stressmaster5000 · **on:** November 14, 2011, 10:34:13 PM

These poor guys thought they were safe on top of the Elephants. Well, I saw this on PBS and found a YouTube video of it as well. It truly amazes me how high the Tiger leaps and how fast he is on his prey!

Clean pants anyone? Even the Elephants knew to run!

The action starts at about 2:50.

Chako · **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2011, 01:55:56 AM

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #2 on:** November 15, 2011, 03:07:34 AM

Tigers are ambush predators, which means they are designed for explosive bursts of speed and amazing leaps. I'm not surprised they could jump up on an elephant given proper motivation, although this doesn't seem like a tiger hunting- it looks more like a defensive attack. I can't imagine a tiger would willingly try to run at an elephant- those things are huge and dangerous. In fact, I read something years ago that said more people are killed by elephants than any other animal. I don't know if it's true or not, but even so they aren't the kind of prey that tigers usually go for since they are designed for a quick kill.

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stressmaster5000 · **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2011, 07:24:18 AM

I watched the entire video and also read the description and I think they were trying to corral and dart the Tiger and move it somewhere when this attack happened. It was incredible to see though! I suppose previously before the technological break through that led to everybody having and using a video camera most would not have lived after seeing a pouncing attack like that. They are truly magnificent animals.