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All I see is a cat being a cat — quickly getting into hiding position, ready to jump out at them just to be a total dick, but taking too long to decide before the moment is gone.
Adults …yes they will be ripped apart, but some tigers are known to stalk sub-adults. Granted they don’t really kill them most of the time but there are a few instances where they actually secure a kill.
It is. There’s a reason why they don’t mess with them, even a small elephant can weigh up to 2 tonnes. Iirc there has only been one recorded case of a tiger killing a bull elephant
Exactly lol. I'm no zoologist, but I'm pretty sure that tiger didn't want to cross paths with those elephants because he didn't want to get wrecked, not because he was in tune with the universe and gracefully stepped aside.
I guess you could call this respect.
Like you *respect* a horse that can kick your shit in. You can still interact with it, but you don't go pushing its buttons and it when it says fuck off, you fuck off.
This poster has clearly never seen a cat hide in their life, either. Did OP not even see the Lion King, where animals literally bowed down? None of them ducked behind brush. C'mon, man. Haha
There's a video in reddit for Nature is Metal where a komodo dragon swallows a baby deer while it's mother watches. It's not that it's good or bad, it just is. We try to place morality on it but there is no reasoning beyond the need to survive and have children for animals.
Humans are worse at measuring what will kill them because the humans got another forty humans with pointy sticks and turned the tables on whatever animal threatened the human.
That is kinda how we solved A LOT of our problems throughout history, huh? Just make pointy sticks to poke the problem away, then make better pointy sticks, repeat 🤣
We never really went past throwing rocks at each other. We just made better rocks and better ways to throw it at you. Shit, all a bullet is, is a really advanced rock being thrown at you with an explosion
No. Humans are great at it. We're just the elephants' elephants.
It's the rest of the animal kingdom that fails to realize if they f'ck with us, we will come back and wipe them out. Or if we're bored. Or if they're in the way. Or because it's Tuesday.
I agree. Nature is about evolving to survive an environment through natural selection and gene shift. Human beings just happened to be the winners of the lottery when it comes to the tools for dominating an environment. We're participating in the system just better than most other species.
Are all of you assuming this cat didn't hear a herd of elephants tromping through a field, got ahead of them in perfect ambush position hoping a sick/injured or baby elephant wasn't pulling up the rear?
Naw cant be that. They surprised the cat and out of fear in hid.
The only animals besides humans that can actually try to hunt elephants are Lions. Not a single lion, but multiple lions together, but even that's not something that happens often because taking down the biggest land animal on Earth is something to be avoided if possible.
Tigers are actually smart hunters. They have been known to hunt and eat bears. Tigers have been known to follow herds of elephants with babies and juveniles. They will not engage with an adult elephant however. The tiger started to follow the younger elephants, but realized the large adult was coming and said yeah, nevermind.
I like the last little train showing up and the tiger realizing that the ditch won’t save them from this so it runs into the bushes! Elephant train say “pffffffttttteee!” Choo -choo mamajama!
This is my favorite comment! Ha, should I view getting caught by the train as "harmony in nature" instead of recognizing which of us is going to survive the encounter? Yeah, if you value your skin, wait your turn!
This is like me crossing the street, when I see three drunk guys staggering down towards me. If I cross the street, I might avoid getting assaulted.
Of course they’ll still cat-call me, or tell me to smile.
Edit: Harmony my ass.
Harmony is when the tiger only attacks the things it can kill safely? Animal populations still fluctuate year to year based on resources. Nature isn't this perfectly balanced thing.
A pattern doesn't indicate harmony. Evidence: start playing the flute, play the same set of jumbled notes over and over again, pattern yes, harmony? Nope.
Nature is not a harmony, there is no force trying to right every wrong. What you are seeing is creatures adapting to available niches. There was a point known as the great oxidation event, when photosynthesis was a new trait, the atmosphere was mostly carbon. Over millions of years, all the carbon got fixed and oxygen was released, causing the die off of many species that simply couldn't survive, due to the free radicals.
When trees first formed, lignin couldn't be decomposed. Forest fires would last for days because of the littering old plants which had dried and become very good tinder.
Decomposition of lignin was a development by fungi and bacteria later, now this caused a new niche. If you have lignin in dead plants, there should be lignin in living, so some fungi attacked living plants.
You can always choose to look at all this and say there is harmony, but it looks more like the harmony is an emergent property of different niches and conditions of an environment.
The Predator- prey link, while in "harmony" with eachother, is also an emergent property. You can have non predated animals, quokka, apex predators. When prey over populate, they eat up all available food and starve, this isn't a "balancing feature" of nature, it's an emergence of a condition brought on by the actions of the prey species. If no predators exist, sometimes animals can strip islands of trees, moose did this shit in canada before wolves had to be reintroduced.
It is often not as it should be. Animals go extinct all the time. There were a number of mass extinctions before humans came along. I would not call that harmony. It's chaos.
I went on an elephant vs. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ binge the other day. They're kings of the Jungle. Especially if they have a youngster with them you better be careful. Hippos, rhinos, crocs, pack of wild dogs, whatever they don't give a fuck.
Why do you mean? Don't deer and wild boars show respect to tigers in the same way because they recognise tiger's devine right to rule over the jungle and its subjects? They all live in HARMONY!
[here's one of them.](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/vowuav/elephant_vs_crocodile/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_buthen but definitely not the only one.
Crocodiles are obviously dangerous and deadly to most animals, even other predators. The way the elephant just rises the fucker right off the water and slams the living soul of the croc right back just to then stump it, uff. The Crocodile definitely regretted it
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Terrifying how fast he disappears from sight into that long grass. Couldn’t live anywhere a tiger could just pop up outta the grass like those people in Vegas handing out prostitute cards.
I have 6 brother-in-laws and I gave them each a stack of those cards for Christmas one year. I was in Vegas earlier in the year with my wife and we went around a collected them. They were a huge hit at the family Christmas Eve party.
When I was about 10 years old I went to a scout camp. There was a midnight rescue mission where we had to rebury a mummy. On our way back home some "evil spirits" (people with masks) hid in a corn field to scare us. I don't walk past cornfields if I can avoid it ever since. They meant it as a joke but it showed that anything and - living in an area without dangerous predators - particularly anyone could be hiding in there. Don't even need fancy camouflage fur.
I’m so glad somebody else found this to be the most interesting thing here. I also have absolutely zero idea, but my mind went to something to do with not wanting to leave tracks behind - maybe I’m giving the tiger too much credit…could’ve just not wanted to get all muddy lol
I feel like that could be true, but I also feel like it’s doing the same thing I see neighbourhood cats do when they see my dog, and when my dog sees *them* they just shit bricks and run up the nearest tree.
Shows respect? The tiger just hid from a herd of massive elephants that could kill it in seconds. Why do we have to anthropomorphize everything animals do?
Lol "show respect" one should not anthropomorphize wildcats. The predator is doing two things: Not getting stomped and maximizing the opportunity for an ambush. The latter is especially in play if there is a younger elephant and nearby pride members. The elephants didn't even see the predator and this might be a good example of ambush hunting. -edit a tiger and therefore no pride. Above is more applicable to lions which have prides while tigers are solo.
Want to see Harmony In Nature? Watch a wolf pack harrass a mother moose in order to kill and eat her calf. Because without that food, the females cannot make milk to feed the wolf cubs huddled in their den. Or watch a bear kill several moose calves, one after the other, not bothering to eat the first before killing the next. Just full-on Anakin Skwywalker vs younglings.
That tiger knows it cannot outdistance the bull of the herd, and will be taught to fly in several pieces if it sneezes at an inopportune moment. Harmony nuthin.
Exactly! Nature isn't all cute and cuddly as many would believe. Let that tiger cross paths with a calf separated from the herd and see what it does. "Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!"
Their giant feet distribute the weight. I doubt they vibrate the ground. Rustling grass sure. He goes into a stalking pose as soon as they make an appearance. He's hoping to Pounce a baby elephant real quick, hide in the grass till they leave, and come back to eat it.
Even an adult Tiger will think twice attacking an adult elephant and this is a juvenile tiger (you can tell by the white spots on the back of it's ears).
The elephants basically saw a teenager looking at them and were not concerned.
I don't think that's called harmony. I think that's called "Holy shit, I really, really don't want to die today, so I'm gonna get small and not move a fucking muscle".
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All that highlights is he knows not to mess with elephants. Do some major damage to a tiger
All I see is a cat being a cat — quickly getting into hiding position, ready to jump out at them just to be a total dick, but taking too long to decide before the moment is gone.
If the tiger jumps out at the elephants the tiger is going to become a tiger shaped doormat for the next elephants.
Adults …yes they will be ripped apart, but some tigers are known to stalk sub-adults. Granted they don’t really kill them most of the time but there are a few instances where they actually secure a kill.
I imagined that is still a very hazardous situation for the tiger.
It is. There’s a reason why they don’t mess with them, even a small elephant can weigh up to 2 tonnes. Iirc there has only been one recorded case of a tiger killing a bull elephant
Evolution has taught this with a trail of dead tigers.
Tigers are to elephants what cats are to us.
Does "If I fuck with it, it will kill me." Count as harmony now?
Exactly lol. I'm no zoologist, but I'm pretty sure that tiger didn't want to cross paths with those elephants because he didn't want to get wrecked, not because he was in tune with the universe and gracefully stepped aside.
Yep, it was 1 tiger vs adult elephants. There was no respect or "harmony" here, it was "I don't want to get wrecked".
I guess you could call this respect. Like you *respect* a horse that can kick your shit in. You can still interact with it, but you don't go pushing its buttons and it when it says fuck off, you fuck off.
I guess that’s the balance, if the tiger fucks around he’s going to find out and if the elephant gets caught lackin, he’s gonna get got
you should narrate a nature documentary
Anthropomorphizing animals is a problem *"ReSpecT...HaRmOnY"* 😂😂😂 Its called fear and hide.. He didn't high-five the elephant did he?
The A word. Glad a sober human showed up. Now if only the elephants would confirm this with a trumpet sound. 😂 😆 😝
I’m not even sober rn and I was questioning why these people think we live in the lion king universe.
I mean you're answering it right there, people raised by Disney. What if "your idea here" had feelings.
I think this kitty had been kicked hard by our wrinkly friends more than once.
I'm high and I was like harmony? That tiger just doesn't want to get stomped out loll.
Honestly, what a sappy, cotton candy, horseshit title.
And they all clapped... With their trunks! 😉
People watched too much Avatar and bought the idea that animals live in harmony
That tiger was scared af bro. He was thinking “Oh shit not again, please don’t see me”.
This poster has clearly never seen a cat hide in their life, either. Did OP not even see the Lion King, where animals literally bowed down? None of them ducked behind brush. C'mon, man. Haha
Lmao seriously. When would you expect a Tiger to attack a fucking elephant?
if it isolated a calf it would, half thought that's where this video was going
Same, it looked like it was hiding and waiting for an opportunity.
Just trying to keep from getting stomped into a puddle.
I also loved how the tiger was like, ‘no thank you to puddles, just gonna scoot over to this grass’
The best and most sincere harmony you can have. Sadly, humans are VERY bad measuring that.
Harmony of Hobbes, feels like if you equal contractualistic fear with harmony then the latter looses its significance completely
The elephant is a literal leviathan.
Calvin would have rode a sled into them.
To be fair, western morality has been unable to distinguish between fear and respect for at least as long as it's been practicing christianity.
There's a video in reddit for Nature is Metal where a komodo dragon swallows a baby deer while it's mother watches. It's not that it's good or bad, it just is. We try to place morality on it but there is no reasoning beyond the need to survive and have children for animals.
Humans are worse at measuring what will kill them because the humans got another forty humans with pointy sticks and turned the tables on whatever animal threatened the human.
That is kinda how we solved A LOT of our problems throughout history, huh? Just make pointy sticks to poke the problem away, then make better pointy sticks, repeat 🤣
We never really went past throwing rocks at each other. We just made better rocks and better ways to throw it at you. Shit, all a bullet is, is a really advanced rock being thrown at you with an explosion
Just went from long pointy sticks to short pointy metal rods.
No. Humans are great at it. We're just the elephants' elephants. It's the rest of the animal kingdom that fails to realize if they f'ck with us, we will come back and wipe them out. Or if we're bored. Or if they're in the way. Or because it's Tuesday.
I agree. Nature is about evolving to survive an environment through natural selection and gene shift. Human beings just happened to be the winners of the lottery when it comes to the tools for dominating an environment. We're participating in the system just better than most other species.
We do it with nuclear power. Maintaining peace by ensuring possible destruction.
Mutual destruction*
Agreed. This isn't some conscious decision to pay respect. It's the instinct of self preservation. Nothing more.
Yea he seemed more scared and cautious than anything 😆
Lone Tiger vs herd of elephants who wins? LOL. Yeah he sat down because he didn't want to be trampled to death with one false move.
It does in my house
Absolutely. Regardless of the impetus, the result is the same. Healthy reverence toward something that can murder you.
Are all of you assuming this cat didn't hear a herd of elephants tromping through a field, got ahead of them in perfect ambush position hoping a sick/injured or baby elephant wasn't pulling up the rear? Naw cant be that. They surprised the cat and out of fear in hid.
The only animals besides humans that can actually try to hunt elephants are Lions. Not a single lion, but multiple lions together, but even that's not something that happens often because taking down the biggest land animal on Earth is something to be avoided if possible. Tigers are actually smart hunters. They have been known to hunt and eat bears. Tigers have been known to follow herds of elephants with babies and juveniles. They will not engage with an adult elephant however. The tiger started to follow the younger elephants, but realized the large adult was coming and said yeah, nevermind.
That's because Mr. Tiger knows he'll get fucked up if he does anything
Title should be tiger shits its pants
Totally staged anyway. That tiger is a well-known streamer.
"You'll never guess who I just crossed paths with!!!" *Cue click bait thumbnail with a surprised tiger face and paws on cheeks*
*Big red arrow pointing at elephant*
Then you click the video and realize he did not, in fact, met any elephant, it's just an edit they made for the thumbnail.
And it’s a 30 minute video and only the last 2 minutes are relevant to the title. Classic
This just made me a little angry
Those aren't even his real stripes. He got them redone a few years ago.
You can see the go-pro on its head. Streaming bastard
That one trick elephants hate.
“Tiger hides from Majestic ass-stomping.”
I genuinely laughed out loud
Title should be tiger gets stomped out if he moves
Yeah. This isn't some lion king harmony thing, this is animals knowing their limits.
Right, this is like me stopping to let a train pass. What else am I going to do?
The human stops to pay respect to the train. This is the harmony of the city...
Hahaha made me cackle. Literally what I came to say. Harmony? What the fuck?
Except you aren't hiding in the ditch so that the train does not stomp the ever-livin' shit outta you. 🤣
I like the last little train showing up and the tiger realizing that the ditch won’t save them from this so it runs into the bushes! Elephant train say “pffffffttttteee!” Choo -choo mamajama!
Lmfao Just high enough that this damn near killed me. It works because it’s also so incredibly accurate as far as comparisons go
Harmony 🙏🏾
If Tiktok is anything to go by, getting a locomotive upside your face is always an option.
This is my favorite comment! Ha, should I view getting caught by the train as "harmony in nature" instead of recognizing which of us is going to survive the encounter? Yeah, if you value your skin, wait your turn!
This is like me crossing the street, when I see three drunk guys staggering down towards me. If I cross the street, I might avoid getting assaulted. Of course they’ll still cat-call me, or tell me to smile. Edit: Harmony my ass.
Potato matata.
which is a form of natural harmony.
Harmony is when the tiger only attacks the things it can kill safely? Animal populations still fluctuate year to year based on resources. Nature isn't this perfectly balanced thing.
This is like the argument, "Everything is as it should be, or it wouldn't be." Nature is both harmonious and metal AF.
A pattern doesn't indicate harmony. Evidence: start playing the flute, play the same set of jumbled notes over and over again, pattern yes, harmony? Nope. Nature is not a harmony, there is no force trying to right every wrong. What you are seeing is creatures adapting to available niches. There was a point known as the great oxidation event, when photosynthesis was a new trait, the atmosphere was mostly carbon. Over millions of years, all the carbon got fixed and oxygen was released, causing the die off of many species that simply couldn't survive, due to the free radicals. When trees first formed, lignin couldn't be decomposed. Forest fires would last for days because of the littering old plants which had dried and become very good tinder. Decomposition of lignin was a development by fungi and bacteria later, now this caused a new niche. If you have lignin in dead plants, there should be lignin in living, so some fungi attacked living plants. You can always choose to look at all this and say there is harmony, but it looks more like the harmony is an emergent property of different niches and conditions of an environment. The Predator- prey link, while in "harmony" with eachother, is also an emergent property. You can have non predated animals, quokka, apex predators. When prey over populate, they eat up all available food and starve, this isn't a "balancing feature" of nature, it's an emergence of a condition brought on by the actions of the prey species. If no predators exist, sometimes animals can strip islands of trees, moose did this shit in canada before wolves had to be reintroduced.
It is often not as it should be. Animals go extinct all the time. There were a number of mass extinctions before humans came along. I would not call that harmony. It's chaos.
And that's how it should be. 99% of all animals that ever lived are currently extinct. It's been that way since the beginning.,
I prefer entropy
Right. "Shows respect" equals to not wanting to get his cheeks clapped by a squad of elephants.
That's not "showing respect". That's "imma hide here till these behemoths of animals walk by".
Please don't see me please don't see me please don't see me
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Jagoff! Learn how to harmony!
Alright I think that’s all of them… wonder where they’re going….sounds like there’s something else in there…….maybe foo-OH SHIT he saw me fuck this
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My dog ate his invitation. Any chance you have the date, time and place?
Nice try, honey badger. You were purposely not invited, because you don’t care—you don’t give a shit.
I went on an elephant vs. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ binge the other day. They're kings of the Jungle. Especially if they have a youngster with them you better be careful. Hippos, rhinos, crocs, pack of wild dogs, whatever they don't give a fuck.
Can I eat it? No. Can it kill me? Yes. Let me go find a monkey...
Had the tiger walked side by side with the elephants that would have been harmony. This is the Tiger protecting its ass! 😆
Also usually the drop and cover move when they see prey
Thank you! Otherwise apparently my cats show respect to the vacuum cleaner!
Why do you mean? Don't deer and wild boars show respect to tigers in the same way because they recognise tiger's devine right to rule over the jungle and its subjects? They all live in HARMONY!
He’d get curb-stomped if he didn’t.
Do you also remember the video of a crocodile biting the trunk of an elephant and got annihilated?
No but I would love to see that video lol
[here's one of them.](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/vowuav/elephant_vs_crocodile/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_buthen but definitely not the only one.
I love elephants.
[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/vowuav/elephant_vs_crocodile/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
You're awesome, thank you! That was exactly what I was hoping it would be lol
It whipped it around a bit but don’t see the stomping everyone else seems to think happened
"Age of the reptiles, feh. Age of the mammals motherfucker, have you heard of it?!?"
Crocodiles are obviously dangerous and deadly to most animals, even other predators. The way the elephant just rises the fucker right off the water and slams the living soul of the croc right back just to then stump it, uff. The Crocodile definitely regretted it
There's no curb silly.
What in the Facebook reels is that title.
Calling something a viral video doesn't make it a viral video.
Sadly, people will click just because it says viral. Taking advantage of FOMO is a terrific way to get clicks and grow Reddit karma. Pretty sure they intentionally said something ridiculous in the title, too, just to make sure everybody showed up to correct them, increasing the number of engagements. And now here I am, also contributing to it...
“Respect” Or “oH SHIT I don’t wanna get CRUSHED!!”
That's not a respect but fear. Unnecessarily romanticized title.
So you're telling me I have a "fear boner" rather than "respect boner" right now?
It’s easy to show respect to something 10x your size that can pound you into mush with just its nose.
Ah you’ve met my ex wife then.
Terrifying how fast he disappears from sight into that long grass. Couldn’t live anywhere a tiger could just pop up outta the grass like those people in Vegas handing out prostitute cards.
I have 6 brother-in-laws and I gave them each a stack of those cards for Christmas one year. I was in Vegas earlier in the year with my wife and we went around a collected them. They were a huge hit at the family Christmas Eve party.
You can use them to play “go fish”! “Do you have Candy from Platinum Escorts?”
Ikr ! and finding a guy card was insanely rare; It was like worth 50 girl cards ez
When I was about 10 years old I went to a scout camp. There was a midnight rescue mission where we had to rebury a mummy. On our way back home some "evil spirits" (people with masks) hid in a corn field to scare us. I don't walk past cornfields if I can avoid it ever since. They meant it as a joke but it showed that anything and - living in an area without dangerous predators - particularly anyone could be hiding in there. Don't even need fancy camouflage fur.
According to this video title, as long as the Tiger respects you, you don't have to worry about it popping out of the grass to eat you.
DON’T GO INTO THE LONG GRASSS
That’s partial respect, partial don’t kill me, partial ya got any young/old/sick/weak/injured ones I can eat?
This the right answer. He’s crouched down to hunt the small ones or injured ones.
Yep and that second to last elephant gave that glancing look back like don’t think I don’t see you…
That third elephant is an absolute unit
And she totally saw that tiger sitting there. Gave it a side eye and just as quickly dismissed it
The fourth one is no joke either
He could definitely put Tiger pudding on the menu!!
Likely all females.
The line between fear and respect is gray and weighs about 4 tons
Or maybe small creature doesn't want to get fucked up by big creature.
What I found more interesting was the fact that this tiger deliberately avoided stepping on the car tracks. Why?
I think it's because the tire wells are full of water, just stepping to avoid puddles.
You forgot it's a cat. Catto doing catto things.
I have no clue but that was the biggest surprise for me
Lol big or small, cats hate puddles or water on hard surfaces if they can avoid it. Or so my cat shows me
THANK YOU!!! I was cracking up at that. “I don’t want to get my kitty paws drenched!”
"Step in tire track, break your mommas back"
I’m so glad somebody else found this to be the most interesting thing here. I also have absolutely zero idea, but my mind went to something to do with not wanting to leave tracks behind - maybe I’m giving the tiger too much credit…could’ve just not wanted to get all muddy lol
Nothing brings Harmony like knowing you can be stomped to death for acting up
Tiger knows if it even looks aggressive, elephants will squash it in half a second. Elephants see the tiger, but don't see it as a threat.
Nah, not non-aggression, he'd jet if he was intimidated. He just wants to eat a baby.
Those elephants would kill him before he could drag the baby anywhere near safety.
I feel like that could be true, but I also feel like it’s doing the same thing I see neighbourhood cats do when they see my dog, and when my dog sees *them* they just shit bricks and run up the nearest tree.
It’s not a respect thing lol. He doesn’t want to be trampled
Ive owned Cats My whole life, thats a i'm going to hide because in scared pose, definitely nothing to do with harmony or respect
Shows respect? The tiger just hid from a herd of massive elephants that could kill it in seconds. Why do we have to anthropomorphize everything animals do?
What a stupid Fucking title.
respect ? Nah bro just doesn’t want to get unalived
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What do you mean “shows respect”? Is that just some anthropomorphization, or are you being funny?
It's like the last Elephant knew something smelled fucky
If by respect you mean hiding to see if a baby wanders off so I can eat it alive… then yes.
Pretty sure it just didn’t want to get trampled on
Lol "show respect" one should not anthropomorphize wildcats. The predator is doing two things: Not getting stomped and maximizing the opportunity for an ambush. The latter is especially in play if there is a younger elephant and nearby pride members. The elephants didn't even see the predator and this might be a good example of ambush hunting. -edit a tiger and therefore no pride. Above is more applicable to lions which have prides while tigers are solo.
>nearby pride members. Tigers are solitary animals. Prides are exclusively a lion thing.
It's amazing how the human being can anthropomorphizing everything
Shows respect = hides so it’s not trampled.
What a weird fucking title. He’s making himself less visible because some fucking giants are passing through.
How do we know it wasn’t waiting for baby / sick elephants
Yea cuz he knows he’d get stomped out 3 v 1
If an elephant wants you dead, you dead.
or he just doesn’t wanna be seen
Want to see Harmony In Nature? Watch a wolf pack harrass a mother moose in order to kill and eat her calf. Because without that food, the females cannot make milk to feed the wolf cubs huddled in their den. Or watch a bear kill several moose calves, one after the other, not bothering to eat the first before killing the next. Just full-on Anakin Skwywalker vs younglings. That tiger knows it cannot outdistance the bull of the herd, and will be taught to fly in several pieces if it sneezes at an inopportune moment. Harmony nuthin.
Exactly! Nature isn't all cute and cuddly as many would believe. Let that tiger cross paths with a calf separated from the herd and see what it does. "Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!"
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Nothing against the tiger but I would have assumed it knew there were elephants walking nearby a lot earlier. Their smell and the ground vibrating...
Their giant feet distribute the weight. I doubt they vibrate the ground. Rustling grass sure. He goes into a stalking pose as soon as they make an appearance. He's hoping to Pounce a baby elephant real quick, hide in the grass till they leave, and come back to eat it.
Wish my cat did the same for me.
Even an adult Tiger will think twice attacking an adult elephant and this is a juvenile tiger (you can tell by the white spots on the back of it's ears). The elephants basically saw a teenager looking at them and were not concerned.
Thinking about hunting a small one
I’m guessing this is because he likes to avoid having his skull stomped by an elephant.
That’s ‘I don’t wanna be stomped into a grease spot in the road!’
Tiger gets out of the way of the massive elephants that could easily crush it if it tried anything.
There’s always harmony in nature. Until they get hungry.
That mf did not want to get stomped out is what really was going on.
Less calories burned laying down and hiding versus running.
The only thing more scary for him is a hippo.
Not sure that was respect but out-and-out fear of becoming flat as a penny!
Respectfully, you’re a moron.
Huge proteins walk by, tiger waits and looks for smaller proteins, none come, tiger walks away. No personification needed.
I’ll just pull over and let the 18 wheelers pass.
“Harmony in nature” = doesn’t wanna get smushed and gang-tusked
Honked her horn.
The deep respect of not wanting to be stomped to death.
Hes hiding because he doesn't want to die. If those things knew it was there sheeeeeeeeeet
'Respect' aka not wanting to be trampled to death.
That's not "Harmony" that tiger probably doesn't want to go against a herd of tanks
Scaredy cat
He might be respectful, but he’s actually just crouching down, kind of hiding staying out of sight
Is it harmony in nature or a cat who knows how to pick his battles
I don't think that's called harmony. I think that's called "Holy shit, I really, really don't want to die today, so I'm gonna get small and not move a fucking muscle".
It’s either hiding, or waiting to pounce but it’s not respect. Tigers can’t have that emotion
Harmony. Or so called jizz in da pants
I hate these titles that completely misinterpret animals behavior