Being on an Elephant doesn't mean you're invincible.
I decided to add the complete video here, because it shows so much more than the brief clip I originally put up. Its really pretty average until 2:07. Watch as the tigress emerges from the savanna, its unbefuckinglievable. I mean, one second she's not there, the next she just APPEARS. And man, when she explodes out of that grass, it's so fast you almost can't visually track it.
You can see it actually run an evasive pattern before it does a goddam 10 foot minimum leap into the air and scores a chunk of the rider's arm.
You can see it actually run an evasive pattern before it does a goddam 10 foot minimum leap into the air and scores a chunk of the rider's arm.
Apparently, the guys on the elephants were park rangers just doing their jobs, the gun was a dart gun. But it just goes to show: When screwing with animals who are natural predators, humans are in a WAY lower position on the totem pole.
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Guy was mauled, but survived --
Full video:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=141_1203654999
And there was a guy with a tranquilizer gun the next elephant over. Apparently not much of a good shooter.
You gotta love watching that tigress come over the top of a full-grown Indian elephant like it wasn't eight feet tall.."
You see that guy swatting at the big cat before it leaps as if that is going to scare her off?
I was rooting for her all the way.
I think the moral here is, "It's not wise to go hunting tigers armed with a short, skinny stick
>"It's not wise to go hunting tigers"<
...Is all that needed to be said.
Humans are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
Welcome to the food chain, monkey.
Check THIS crazy shit out:
NAIROBI - A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said Wednesday.
Farm manager Ben Nyaumbe was working at the weekend when the serpent, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast.
"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he told the Daily Nation newspaper.
When the snake coiled itself round his upper body, Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures: "I had to bite it."
The python dragged him up a tree, but when it eased its grip, Nyaumbe said he was able to take a mobile phone out of his pocket and phone for help.
When his supervisor came with a policeman, Nyaumbe smothered the snake's head with his shirt, while the rescuers tied it with a rope and pulled.
"We both came down, landing with a thud," said Nyaumbe, who survived with damaged lips and bruising.
The snake escaped from the three sacks it was bundled into.
[[[if I ever somehow end up in Africa, I will be escaping from the three Africas I'm bundled into. I don't wanna go there no SIR.]]]
Reminds me of one of my first interactions with signature collectors upon moving to Seattle.
Nature Guy: Excuse me, do you like polar bears?
Me: Are you high?
Nature guy: What?
Me: Are you high? If a polar bear were say 15 feet away from me, it'd be trying to eat me. No, I do not like polar bears or anything else that is going to try to eat me on principal. Now if this were a polar bear rug on my floor...
Nature guy: What about trees? Do you like trees?
Me: Trees? Yeah man, trees are great. At least, when they don't try to kill me like they do skiiers. Especially when they're cut up, on fire, in my fireplace w/ the polar bear rug on the floor in front of it.
Nature guy: Well would you like to make a donation...
Me: No thanks, I don't support terrorist organizations.
Food chain, I know where I sit on it.
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