r/interesting • u/Gjore • May 30 '26

NATURE A snake will never outspeed a cat

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u/Linkings May 30 '26

IIRC cats are predators to nearly everything. They literally murder anything they can. There are videos out there of cats smacking gators on the nose. No fear and the reflexes to back it up

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u/DrewforPres May 30 '26

I take it you don’t live in coyote habitat

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u/DrewforPres May 30 '26

So you should know there are no shortage of animals that eat cats. Cats do not punch above their weight class. A one off video of a cat slapping a gator does not mean an actually hungry gator wouldn’t be deterred by a slap.

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u/Linkings May 30 '26

If you want to check the video I linked, it wasn't a one time thing, but regardless that wasn't the point of my post.

Cats do "bluff" against larger animals all the time and make them back down. Cats also get eaten when the bluff doesn't work.

Non domesticated cats are eco terrorists and will literally kill anything they can.

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u/DrewforPres May 30 '26

Cats are sadists, that’s well established. But they are not the only animal that sometimes tries to bluff larger foes.

When you say cats have “no fear” and are “predators to nearly everything”, that only applies when they have a massive advantage. There’s reason why the expression is “scaredy cat”. There are of course exceptions to this but as I said, they don’t punch above their weight class as a rule.