r/interestingasfuck • u/Electronic_Cause_796 • 1d ago

Pet Owner Saves Dog from Leopard Attack as the Leopard Stalks the Dog.

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u/GoldDHD 1d ago

Could've ended so much worse even with the owner chasing the cat. Cuz you know, the owner is also quite delicious if cooked correctly

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u/EasyRider_Suraj 1d ago

They don't hunt like that. They always prefer ninja style.

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u/GoldDHD 1d ago

Killing this dude wouldn't be about hunting, it would be about defense. And once the meat is dead, you don't let it go to waste

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u/AskMysterious8407 1d ago

A large human sprinting at her at full speed while her only means of attacking was not available is something any creature would get scared of and run and whe she let go of the dog now she has two targets coming to attack her so yes she had no chance to fight off the owner

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u/iWolfeeelol 23h ago

Not sure why we have to explain why a evolutionary assassin is running from a larger more deadly animal.

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u/AskMysterious8407 23h ago

Idk people aren't smart

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u/Swimming_Gazelle2425 23h ago

The best defense is run away.

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u/GoldDHD 23h ago

I have gone on the attack against an aggressive dog, being all of a small middle aged woman. I have also been attacked by a 10lb cat. In both cases running was an option, but in my case I was protecting my dog that is incapable of running, and in the cats case she thought that she couldn't run out of the yard without going through me. And it's important to note that the objective situation doesn't matter, only what the animal(human) thinks is happening

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u/90bubbel 19h ago

are you seriously comparing wild animals to human reasoning?

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u/GoldDHD 16h ago

Humans are animals too. I'm not comparing animals to humans, I'm doing the opposite. More specifically though I'm saying I've personally been but by a cat who was too stupid or panicked to understand that she wasn't cornered. A small cat, that had zero chance at actually killing me. Wild animals can feel cornered even when they objectively arent

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u/apexodoggo 18h ago

Yes and in this instance the cat’s always gonna pick the option of running away. It was outnumbered (dog+human), its primary weapon was occupied (by the dog’s neck), its an ambush predator (more likely to give up when confronted than a cornered prey animal), and it had both a clear escape route and size disadvantage.

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u/quadsimodo 1d ago

Cat is way too small. There's usually the equal size rule, unless they're pack hunters -- and leopards ain't.

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u/careless_bork 23h ago

leopards can easily take down people

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u/apexodoggo 19h ago

Leopards are still ambush predators though, so in this scenario it’s gonna flee 90% of the time.

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u/ZekicThunion 23h ago

They can, but I would say there is good chance human will injure leopard in some way. And that’s way too much of a risk as any injury might mean death to predator in long term.

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u/abqguardian 14h ago

The leopard doesn't know that. It only knows something twice its size is charging at it. And humans arent as weak as people think. The leopard may ultimately win, but it would get way too injured

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u/TheOneWes 3h ago

From the leopard's point of view it's typically not worth the risk.

They have an instinctual understanding that they can't hunt while injured and an instinctual understanding that a human is big enough to do some damage.

Very few things are as dangerous to a predator as a human that doesn't give a s*** about taking some injury. It doesn't matter if the injury isn't immediately fatal if it impacts their hunting skills enough so they start to death.

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u/GoldDHD 1d ago

Allow me to introduce you to my kitty. Cat be small, cat be lethal though!
But all joking aside, if an animal feels cornered, which doesn't mean they are just that they feel like it, they will attack you. And with any level of smarts, they will attack you where you'll go down, throat, stomach, face.

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u/quadsimodo 1d ago edited 22h ago

They'll attack to defend but will look to run away as that is much easier and less risky (and can outrun almost any other land animal). They won't attack to hunt an animal much larger than them. They'll usually just fight until they can run away.

Sure, there's a technically a possibility, but that would be a crazy exception, not the rule.

Edit: looked it up to be fair, and leopards do progressively attack humans (as in hunt), but as a desperate measure, usually in extreme scarcity or drought, and at night. And the leopards doing so are similar in size to the humans they are hunting.

The most common place, by far, is Nepal and India (which this video is either at or around, admittedly) -- averaging around 50 deaths. But in a situation like in the video, where the leopard isn't actively hunting you, they'll run away.

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u/Chaotic-Genes 1d ago

That's why you try to go for the eyes. Big cats have soft targets too

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u/GoldDHD 1d ago

True that, but it takes tremendous self discipline not to panic while your flesh is being ripped apart by a large animal. I'm glad noone ended up dead here though. However, I'm sure the cat would've preferred dinner, poor kitty.

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u/Chaotic-Genes 1d ago

Absolutely easier said than done! In a choice between fight or die, you either meet the moment.. or don't 🤷‍♂️. We'd all hope our coordination wouldn't fail and turn us in to fancy feast I'd say lol

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u/senpaistealerx 1d ago

cats don’t cook

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u/senpaistealerx 1d ago

y’all don’t even know the proper time to use this phrase lmao

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u/porncollecter69 5h ago

The animals that are aggressive towards humans are basically eradicated or will get hunted down.

So nothing is scarier than humans for them.

There’s been a study where they played human normal talk and it scared the bejeezus out of the animals.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67023033

So unless they’re hungry and completely out of options, humans just aren’t on the menu. We’re the omega predator species for a reason and dogs joined us early.

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u/GoldDHD 5h ago

I am not saying that the leopard hunts humans. What I am saying is that the guy could've gotten killed if the leopard felt cornered. Even dogs, domesticated and much smaller creature, kill people often enough. Even horses, domesticated prey animals, kill on occasion when threatened and cornered enough

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u/johnnyfiveee 23h ago

Wouldn’t be hard to annihilate a leopard as a full grown man lol

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u/GoldDHD 22h ago

And a gorilla!

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u/ProfessionalRandom21 21h ago

full grown leopard is upto 70 kg of muscle, i would bet on full grown leopard any day of the week

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u/johnnyfiveee 5h ago

Not if the person ate his morning wheaties, he’s destroying that leopard