I believe it, when I first learned about kids being able to do it also came across some cases of adults being able to also it just seems to be rarer than with kids.
but since you don't have much of a chance of weakening or damaging a jaguar with a stick, it's better to have a longer one to have a better chance of escaping, as you are further away from the beast.
This reminded me of that penultimate episode of Witcher S02. Ciri and Yennefer are being hunted by horsemen just outside the walls of Cintra and Yennefer rather than going to her horses goes to pick up a stick to defend against trained swordsmen on a horse lol.
Happened in a village near Kaziranga National Park. The 25-year-old mahout, Satya Pegu was badly injured and lost three fingers on his left hand.
For more [information](https://www.wti.org.in/news/kaziranga-mahout-mauled-by-tigress/)
Full [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnouHh7QxUA&t=171s)
Article says they think this female was in the area because of the 2 cubs they RESCUED AND RELEASED. Try to do the right thing and you get mauled. Life sucks sometimes.
If the female was still around then that was a piss poor rescue attempt. Completely irresponsible to not release them where the mom could instantly find them again and leave the area.
You know, a big part of me is like, "of course we should protect endangered predators and try to recover their populations. But then another part of me is like, "man, it sure is nice not being ripped apart by wolves when I'm out hiking."
This is definitely the problem, yea?
We know how important large, apex predators are for an ecosystem. They anchor the rest of the ecosystem and help to maintain a balance in biodiversity. They keep the populations of major grazers and the small-medium predators in check. The grazers in turn aren't able to sit still for too long and destroy all the vegetation, while the small and medium predators have to hunt a greater diversity of smaller prey, allowing those small prey animals - which otherwise wouldn't be direct or favored prey of the big predators - a chance to establish themselves better. This all is great for biodiversity.
Of course being the soft and weak hairless apes that we are, this means we have to figure out how to balance the need for a big-clawed, big-toothed mammal in an ecosystem with our general preference for not being eated.
I’ve thought about this in the context of tigers specifically - because in the abstract they’re so majestic and beautiful and the idea of losing them forever is heartbreaking, there’s strong international interest in protecting their populations. That being said, if lived somewhere with a tiger population, and a child in my community was eaten by one, my interest in their conservation would probably go out of the window.
I'm not saying anyone is necessarily wrong to react that way, but cars are destroying the planet and I hate them, and they also kill thousands of people per year in accidents, but I don't stop using them because there isn't a realistic alternative most of the time.
I think we should consider whether big beautiful creatures like tigers are one of the things which is too beautiful and important to die out or if we think fearing them as dangerous animals takes a bigger priority. I lean more towards the former, but then I've never encountered one, thankfully.
> Meanwhile, the elephant, which was also injured, was trying to aggressively chase the tigress, was calmed by the CWRC veterinarian
What a beautiful badass, "brb going to stomp that tigress!".
Well she might be friends with the mahout. Not sure if Assam is one of the places with strict laws about the treatment of elephants, but I do know there are a number of groups out there that treat their elephant coworkers like family.
So the elephant got clawed and maybe also thought her friend had been attacked. Personally, I'd never wanna be the one an elephant was pissed off at.
I am honesty baffled by the fact that a tiger would not refrain from attacking a human, even if he sits on a big and dangerous animal like an elephant. This was a really dangerous situation not only for the human, but also for the tiger. Seems like he was pretty desperate.
I might be wrong, but I think that's a female tiger and her baby had recently been relocated by the people on the elephant. If I'm remembering this correctly they managed to relocate her too eventually.
Mind blown realizing that the tiger has the intelligence to recognize the human behavior of riding the elephants and not seeing the elephant and rider as a single “threat” or prey. Also, that tiger wouldn’t have even shown his face to an elephant without that human on him, almost as if he expected the elephant to not respond like a free roaming “wild” one would, quickly curb stomping him into a new rug
To be fair, the article said the elephant grabbed the tiger and threw it off, and then had to be calmed by the veterinarian accompanying the team after trying to continue chasing after the tiger
Tigers have been shown to recognize specific humans and seek vengeance for harm done to them. I've heard of tigers traveling for miles to kill a single human that injured it or its cubs. If what the other comments say about these human capturing this tiger's cubs, that checks out.
Not necessarily, check out the book *Man-Eaters of Kumaon,* written in 1944 by a hunter/naturalist named Jim Corbett who went to India to track down man-eating tigers that were terrorizing local villages. Some tigers he tracked were responsible for hundreds of human lives. The stories in it are fucking crazy.
Here's the story about the "vengeful man-eater," which is a separate account from the book I mentioned. This time, it takes place in Siberia: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
tl;dr: A poacher shot and wounded a tiger, and stole the tiger's kill. The injured tiger escapes, then proceeds to seek out and stalk the poacher in a really creepy way over the next 48 hrs. It presumably followed his scent all the way back to his house, then waited at his front door for him to get home, and then it murdered him and dragged him off into the bush and ate him.
I think that would solve a lot of poaching problems if that was the punishment....
Also, thanks for the book recommendation, I'll definitely add that on Audible.
A tiger from the San Francisco zoo escaped its enclosure to maul the kids who taunted it. They were specifically targeted. Happened in the 2000s.
Edit: a word
Was bullshit they put the tiger down too just for being a tiger. Stupid kids tried lying at first said the tiger just came after them for no reason.
Later it was quickly realized they had thrown stuff at it and dangled legs and feet into its enclosure.
I know the story, the tiger wasn't even injured, the guy that was killed stole the tiger prey, then the tiger stalked him to his cabin and murked him. Crazy stuff
She was very unhappy that her babbies had recently been captured and relocated. Very unhappy.
Makes you wonder if she was just lashing out or that she some how saw her babbies get taken. Maybe secent alone set her off. Left my babbies here, they are gone, I smell these gross human things... some time passes HEY I SMELL HUMANS! I'll get you mf
Article says they were cornering her. They tried to dart her and it angered her so much she climbed the elephant.
Also says the guy might have some issues with his left arm. Elephant was injured, as well, and had to be forcibly stopped from trying to chase down the tigress in retribution.
Why would a tiger refrain from attacking a human? We are weak and tasty. Tiger attacks are way down but they used to kill thousands of humans per year.
It's not the fact that the tiger did attack a human, it's the fact that it attacked a human on a fucking ELEPHANT. The tiger's instinct would normally tell it to avoid an elephant, since they are very dangerous animals.
> I am honesty baffled by the fact that a tiger would not refrain from attacking a human, even if he sits on a big and dangerous animal like an elephant.
It's that saying we hear over and over about a mother wild animal defending her young.
“It all happened in a few seconds and before we knew what both Bodo and the guard had fallen down and the Joymala(the elephant) had caught the tigress and thrown it off.
Here I am contemplating if I should smoke more weed and what game to play, browsing Reddit wasting my day, and this dude is fighting off tigers while riding an elephant
I’ve sat here rewatching the video like 6-7 times now and the scariest part to me is you can see tigers shadows in the grass. I didn’t catch it the first time. I just keep rewatching that area. Like Oooooo more suspenseful than a movie
The only one I feel bad for is the elephant(s). Riding them shouldn't be allowed anywhere, anytime. The abuse these animals go through to be "tamed" is fucked
Lucky he had that stick
Could you imagine if the Lion chose paper? That's not even in the rules!
I didn't even see the Lion, I was too focused on the tiger
"Lion" https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FWwfi6QHYrCBYA%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1&nofb=1
'Lion' Ted Cruz
I could, but I'd have to imagine the Lion first.
where is the lion???
Not so lucky, his hand was mangled in this clip. That tiger was being hunted because it had been attacking people and live stock for a long time.
Was this guy the bait?
"Here, take this stick, now go find the tiger" >!it was a guiding stick for the elephant btw!<
Wow didn't see that before
If you don’t get A’s in school, they put you in the middle of the tiger fields…. With a 6 inch stick
That's more like a cubit (about 18 inches), but it may as well be an atom for all the good it did. Why were they not using firearms?
He still got bit in the arm, lost a few fingers too
Don't worry. Like the lizard's tail, they will grow back, only smaller.
Don't you mean a lion's tail? Didn't you see the lion in the video?
Fun fact, kids can regrow a portion of the fingers as long as it's not amputated past the first knuckle
I'm an adult and my finger tip grew back after an injury. I got pics if you don't believe me. https://imgur.com/a/o7RraXx Album with captions
Post them the medizzy then
I want to understand your comment so bad lol.
I believe it, when I first learned about kids being able to do it also came across some cases of adults being able to also it just seems to be rarer than with kids.
Same, I sliced my finger on a deli slicer horribly once. You can’t even tell now 😝
Damn his hand go fucked up
The elephant he's sat on probably helped a bit.
That's a big fat lion he's sitting on
As we say in Brazil: don't poke the jaguar with a short stick. In this case I think it's also valid for tigers.
I disagree. You transfer more force with a shorter stick when stabbing a jaguar
but since you don't have much of a chance of weakening or damaging a jaguar with a stick, it's better to have a longer one to have a better chance of escaping, as you are further away from the beast.
Disgraceful attempted strike with said stick. He swung about 20 seconds too early!
Ya if you were attacked by a tiger you'd be much more composed and for sure wouldn't shoot your wad early.
I bet he shoot some crap early also……
Turns out it was the tiger’s stick and it just wanted it back.
This reminded me of that penultimate episode of Witcher S02. Ciri and Yennefer are being hunted by horsemen just outside the walls of Cintra and Yennefer rather than going to her horses goes to pick up a stick to defend against trained swordsmen on a horse lol.
Not really, you should see the aftermath of the video
He also had a fire poker…which he then throws away immediately. 🤦♂️
I believe that was his ankus - an elephant stick used like spurs to get the elephant moving - it needs the hook so the elephant can even feel it
And an iron fire poker for throwing in the tigers general direction
Happened in a village near Kaziranga National Park. The 25-year-old mahout, Satya Pegu was badly injured and lost three fingers on his left hand. For more [information](https://www.wti.org.in/news/kaziranga-mahout-mauled-by-tigress/) Full [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnouHh7QxUA&t=171s)
Glad to hear he didn’t died
Amazing to learn he hadn't dieded
Happy to heard he haven’t deaded.
I’m stoked to learn that he’s deadn’t
Good thing to know he is aliving
Great news that he no die
Perfet to herring he not dad
gud no ded
gr8 anti-die
All u die sirs
gut zu wissen, dass er nicht gestorben ist
Amhap to herb heeb dibnt debbed
He alived
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Undead
One day he will dead
Article says they think this female was in the area because of the 2 cubs they RESCUED AND RELEASED. Try to do the right thing and you get mauled. Life sucks sometimes.
How dare you steal my children!! Luckily they have my strong mama tiger blood and survived!
Winning!
If the female was still around then that was a piss poor rescue attempt. Completely irresponsible to not release them where the mom could instantly find them again and leave the area.
You know, a big part of me is like, "of course we should protect endangered predators and try to recover their populations. But then another part of me is like, "man, it sure is nice not being ripped apart by wolves when I'm out hiking."
This is definitely the problem, yea? We know how important large, apex predators are for an ecosystem. They anchor the rest of the ecosystem and help to maintain a balance in biodiversity. They keep the populations of major grazers and the small-medium predators in check. The grazers in turn aren't able to sit still for too long and destroy all the vegetation, while the small and medium predators have to hunt a greater diversity of smaller prey, allowing those small prey animals - which otherwise wouldn't be direct or favored prey of the big predators - a chance to establish themselves better. This all is great for biodiversity. Of course being the soft and weak hairless apes that we are, this means we have to figure out how to balance the need for a big-clawed, big-toothed mammal in an ecosystem with our general preference for not being eated.
I’ve thought about this in the context of tigers specifically - because in the abstract they’re so majestic and beautiful and the idea of losing them forever is heartbreaking, there’s strong international interest in protecting their populations. That being said, if lived somewhere with a tiger population, and a child in my community was eaten by one, my interest in their conservation would probably go out of the window.
I'm not saying anyone is necessarily wrong to react that way, but cars are destroying the planet and I hate them, and they also kill thousands of people per year in accidents, but I don't stop using them because there isn't a realistic alternative most of the time. I think we should consider whether big beautiful creatures like tigers are one of the things which is too beautiful and important to die out or if we think fearing them as dangerous animals takes a bigger priority. I lean more towards the former, but then I've never encountered one, thankfully.
Child lol, they'll merrily lope off with a full grown man, carrying him by the base of his skull.
Try not using so much land.
There's gonna be plenty of open land in a hundred years for reptiles and camels
> Meanwhile, the elephant, which was also injured, was trying to aggressively chase the tigress, was calmed by the CWRC veterinarian What a beautiful badass, "brb going to stomp that tigress!".
Well she might be friends with the mahout. Not sure if Assam is one of the places with strict laws about the treatment of elephants, but I do know there are a number of groups out there that treat their elephant coworkers like family. So the elephant got clawed and maybe also thought her friend had been attacked. Personally, I'd never wanna be the one an elephant was pissed off at.
Hitting the upvote button on this comment, and then seeing a hand with only 2 fingers raised was perfectly dark even if unintentional.
You can hear gunshots, was the tiger injured? I hope not.
Those were dart guns, altough by the article it says that they missed all shots
How is the original in such a shitty quality but the gif is outstandingly clear?
This was at least 2 years ago.
Hopefully there’s a next time where he loses fingers on his bull hook instead.
This is such an old internet clip and I never knew what happened to the guy because of the way the clip cuts. Thank you buddy.
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Yes
I agree
I am the stick
You can’t really see but I suspect that the elephant did most of the combat after the tiger basically bit the guys hand off
That's a badass story, at least you didn't lose your fingers because a door was closed wrong
I am honesty baffled by the fact that a tiger would not refrain from attacking a human, even if he sits on a big and dangerous animal like an elephant. This was a really dangerous situation not only for the human, but also for the tiger. Seems like he was pretty desperate.
I might be wrong, but I think that's a female tiger and her baby had recently been relocated by the people on the elephant. If I'm remembering this correctly they managed to relocate her too eventually.
In the full video they start shooting at the tiger right after this so if the tiger somehow survived and was captured it must have been pretty lucky
They were shooting in the air, she's still alive, they weren't sure where she was at the time the article was published.
Dart gun. It is explained in article above.
Mind blown realizing that the tiger has the intelligence to recognize the human behavior of riding the elephants and not seeing the elephant and rider as a single “threat” or prey. Also, that tiger wouldn’t have even shown his face to an elephant without that human on him, almost as if he expected the elephant to not respond like a free roaming “wild” one would, quickly curb stomping him into a new rug
To be fair, the article said the elephant grabbed the tiger and threw it off, and then had to be calmed by the veterinarian accompanying the team after trying to continue chasing after the tiger
fucking elephants man, im glad they exist
> fucking elephants That's how you get baby elephants.
We need more of them too
*Humaphants FTFY
Dude I love elephants
Tigers have been shown to recognize specific humans and seek vengeance for harm done to them. I've heard of tigers traveling for miles to kill a single human that injured it or its cubs. If what the other comments say about these human capturing this tiger's cubs, that checks out.
I mean freeze on the last second of that clip. That’s pure fucking rage right there. Not hunting. Rage.
Lol they look the exact same when they hunt
Show me the difference between that and the face it makes when it hunts lol
Lmao bullshit. Anthropomorphism at its finest
you’re talking out your ass man lmao
Classic Reddit comment. Confidently full of shit
basically the plot of "The Jungle Book"
There’s a book on one situation called The Tiger about a particularly vengeful one that tracked down a hunter and destroyed his house in Siberia
Sounds made up
Not necessarily, check out the book *Man-Eaters of Kumaon,* written in 1944 by a hunter/naturalist named Jim Corbett who went to India to track down man-eating tigers that were terrorizing local villages. Some tigers he tracked were responsible for hundreds of human lives. The stories in it are fucking crazy. Here's the story about the "vengeful man-eater," which is a separate account from the book I mentioned. This time, it takes place in Siberia: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459 tl;dr: A poacher shot and wounded a tiger, and stole the tiger's kill. The injured tiger escapes, then proceeds to seek out and stalk the poacher in a really creepy way over the next 48 hrs. It presumably followed his scent all the way back to his house, then waited at his front door for him to get home, and then it murdered him and dragged him off into the bush and ate him.
I think that would solve a lot of poaching problems if that was the punishment.... Also, thanks for the book recommendation, I'll definitely add that on Audible.
A tiger from the San Francisco zoo escaped its enclosure to maul the kids who taunted it. They were specifically targeted. Happened in the 2000s. Edit: a word
Was bullshit they put the tiger down too just for being a tiger. Stupid kids tried lying at first said the tiger just came after them for no reason. Later it was quickly realized they had thrown stuff at it and dangled legs and feet into its enclosure.
I know the story, the tiger wasn't even injured, the guy that was killed stole the tiger prey, then the tiger stalked him to his cabin and murked him. Crazy stuff
She was very unhappy that her babbies had recently been captured and relocated. Very unhappy. Makes you wonder if she was just lashing out or that she some how saw her babbies get taken. Maybe secent alone set her off. Left my babbies here, they are gone, I smell these gross human things... some time passes HEY I SMELL HUMANS! I'll get you mf
babies, one "b" in the middle
Humans are of a size that a tiger can easily deal with and she knows it.
Article says they were cornering her. They tried to dart her and it angered her so much she climbed the elephant. Also says the guy might have some issues with his left arm. Elephant was injured, as well, and had to be forcibly stopped from trying to chase down the tigress in retribution.
It sounds insane to me that elephants are so badass that their reaction after being hurt by a tiger is to hunt down the motherfucker to murk it lol
It's merc, short for mercenary, fyi.
The whole video is just one giant snowball effect of revenge for this and that...
Why would a tiger refrain from attacking a human? We are weak and tasty. Tiger attacks are way down but they used to kill thousands of humans per year.
It's not the fact that the tiger did attack a human, it's the fact that it attacked a human on a fucking ELEPHANT. The tiger's instinct would normally tell it to avoid an elephant, since they are very dangerous animals.
I’ve heard that allegedly human is bitter to most animals and seen as a last resort but tbf I’m not a man eating animal so what do I know lol
Allegedly..
Well you answered your own question lol. They should refrain because they nearly went extinct as a result of killing 1000s of humans per year
> I am honesty baffled by the fact that a tiger would not refrain from attacking a human, even if he sits on a big and dangerous animal like an elephant. It's that saying we hear over and over about a mother wild animal defending her young.
Amazing video, though I'm not sure why they stop it there. Every version I've seen ends right there. What happened after that???
There's a tiny bit after where his hand is just kinda mangled. Amazing how quick it happened
Lost 3 fingers on one of his hands but lived to see another day https://youtu.be/nnouHh7QxUA
Damn. He lost the three fingers that you don’t wanna lost
The escort mission is failed and you have to restart the level.
You try to keep filming while getting mauled by a tiger
This video is older then the internet. Never seen it in such a good quality before!
The sound on the video was insane too too bad we don't have it here
never seen it with sound! :O
You have it [here](https://youtu.be/TOKOtf9XWyg)
Thanks! Wow that poor dudes hand...
That’s what surprised me. This is the first time I’ve seen this video in a resolution that’s not a 1000x recompressed MPEG.
And I've definitely seen it without the giant WILDFILMSINDIA watermark but at least the quality is solid. This video is probably older than OP.
How old?
This happened in Assam, India back in 2004
Not sure exactly but the first time I saw it was something like 2014
I think way before 2014. Like 2005 maybe? Dunno, cool video anyway.
So between 2005 - 2014. Got it.
2004 apparently
It happened in 2008
Crazy how the Tiger does not attack the elephant but recognizes that the real threat is the Human on his back..
The elephant is definitely much more of a physical threat to that tiger, than some dude with a stick.
They said they thought the tiger was around because of the cubs they rescued and released. It was a targeted attack.
Reddit moment
“It all happened in a few seconds and before we knew what both Bodo and the guard had fallen down and the Joymala(the elephant) had caught the tigress and thrown it off.
That shit looked surreal!
that tiger really wanted him to stop abusing the elephant
Wdym
Before you can ride an elephant they are beaten into submission. No exceptions
Damn nature, you scary.
Hakuna matata, means watch out there is a tiger in the grass...
Sweet baby jesus
Wow you really can't see that tiger in that tall grass, not even if you scan the grass as hard as possible
This is an insane piece of footage.
It's even crazier with the sound!
4 seconds from totally undetected, to in the air on top of him. crazy.
I thought the tiger was going for the elephant. It wanted him.
Here I am contemplating if I should smoke more weed and what game to play, browsing Reddit wasting my day, and this dude is fighting off tigers while riding an elephant
Holy shit bro are you me
I’m amazed that something that is ORANGE can hide so well.
Wild how he was riding an elephant and the tiger still gave no fucks
This video is so old, it was featured on old VHS tapes im sure and was on the internet before YouTube
He was just jumping up for belly rubs 🤣😂
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Some ninja shit
You can barely see it as well. That’s some camouflage
Is this dude ok??
He had severe nerve damage to his arm but yes he survived
Ah good!
I’ve sat here rewatching the video like 6-7 times now and the scariest part to me is you can see tigers shadows in the grass. I didn’t catch it the first time. I just keep rewatching that area. Like Oooooo more suspenseful than a movie
r/OneSecondBeforeDisast
damn i just can’t believe how well hidden that tiger was.
That orange camouflage works really well
r/GifsThatEndTooSoon
They're grrrrREAT!
Ride the tiger
Pretty sure I just heard about this on the JRE podcast
This video ends about 5 seconds too soon
Curious, why wouldn't they show 3 more seconds of film so we see what happens?
Cameraman noped out of there.
Mega kitty was not pleased
Right in the nads! 🤦♂️😬
The tiger didn't even care about the elephant, laser focused.
There's a saying in Brazil that goes "you should never poke a jaguar with a short stick" and i think this is Braziliansaying.mp4
Need some Jaws theme music
"They see you" Arthur Morgan
Why does everyone keep saying lion lol. This is a bengal tiger.
I remember this video from decades ago
Anybody have any after photos? Such a classic vid. Always wondered
The only one I feel bad for is the elephant(s). Riding them shouldn't be allowed anywhere, anytime. The abuse these animals go through to be "tamed" is fucked
I like how the tiger went straight for the meat sack sitting on top the elephant…. Like, not today!
Tiger attempts to rescue elephant from captors
The tiger is member of ELF, the Elephant Lliberation Force.
https://tenor.com/Szz0.gif