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What is definitely wrong in this article is the claim, that only bears eat living prey. Also wolves do that. There are many cases where wolves attacked animals

What is definitely wrong in this article is the claim, that only bears eat living prey. Also wolves do that. There are many cases where wolves attacked animals (cows, sheep, deer), and as soon as those are immobilized, start feeding. Sometimes these animals survive with horrible wounds. Many images and videos can be found via google.

technothrasher 2y ago
I've personally witnessed both wild dogs and lions in Botswana starting to eat their prey before it is dead.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
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ericmcer 2y ago
Nature is brutal, we should all be really thankful that we get to die in a bed being made as comfortable as possible. For every other animal in history death was almost guaranteed to be something scary and painful.
- vundercind 2y ago
  Nature’s like living in a 24/7 horror movie for most things that aren’t humans. All those pretty birds you see are like one mistake and bit of bad luck from being ripped to shreds—at all times. Yikes.
ziofill 2y ago
Yep. That keeps happening e.g. in the mountains in northern italy. Cows with huge wounds stumble back from the field, it's horrific. And when the farmers kill a wolf it's an outpour of indignation from animal welfare :/
- pvaldes 2y ago
  Mastiff dogs are the real culprits in more cases that people would expect. Had been videotaped doing exactly this. A wolf pack will kill the prey, two mastiffs just bite, sit and wait watching the cow die. They can't kill the cow efficiently. They will respect animals in their "family" herd, but don't have this restriction against cattle from other herds or species that are not defending, specially when not feed accurately by the owners (If they guard sheep they can still see young cows as fair game). The main difference between wolves and shepherd dogs is that dogs aren't neither afraid to cows or men.
suzzer99 2y ago
Hyenas too. They sometimes chase their prey for hours until it drops, then leisurely consume the softest parts first, like the genitalia.
krig 2y ago
I doubt that statement was meant to be some kind of absolute rule, big cats will definitely eat you alive if they feel like it. But at least you are perhaps more likely to get a quick death.. The advice I grew up with (in swedish bear country) is to do these things, in order: 1. Make noise while in the woods, bears will generally avoid you if they know you are there. You don’t want to startle a bear. 2. If charged, stay calm, make yourself big and talk to the bear, move slowly. 3. If attacked, play dead. With luck, the bear will lose interest once it doesn’t perceive you as a threat. If it’s hungry, well, bad luck. There have been cases of people scaring bears off by punching them in the nose, so as a final resort I guess that’s something to try.
- suzzer99 2y ago
  Grizzly: play dead. Black bear: fight back. Polar bear: make your peace with God.
  - butisaidsudo 2y ago
    If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, good night.
    - hackeraccount 2y ago
      If it's jelly, put it in your belly. If it's teddy, take it to beddy.
      - jaredhallen 2y ago
        Sedges have edges, rushes are round. Grasses are hollow and grow in the ground.
  - Log_out_ 2y ago
    In the hierarchy of fucking with things and getting fucked with ,think of yourself as one of the first. If your solution to problems is sentences that start with so, you are food. What can help is a warmup to kill display. Means,you show a little magic show of dexterity while moving forward. Throw a knife up and down,raise internal doubts.Suprises kill the predator mood.The predator being used to your presence is thus bad.
s1artibartfast 2y ago
I think it is extremely common in the animal world, if not the default. Thinking of other biomes Fish and reptiles almost always do it. I suspect anything which a substantial size difference does it and it is only avoided when you have pretty that is very dangerous to the predator.
teddyh 2y ago
> What is definitely wrong in this article is the claim, that only bears eat living prey. Also wolves do that. And horses¹. And deer². 1. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYNmGMsU18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYNmGMsU18> 2. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk>

technothrasher 2y ago

I've personally witnessed both wild dogs and lions in Botswana starting to eat their prey before it is dead.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago

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ericmcer 2y ago

Nature is brutal, we should all be really thankful that we get to die in a bed being made as comfortable as possible. For every other animal in history death was almost guaranteed to be something scary and painful.

vundercind 2y ago
Nature’s like living in a 24/7 horror movie for most things that aren’t humans. All those pretty birds you see are like one mistake and bit of bad luck from being ripped to shreds—at all times. Yikes.

ziofill 2y ago

Yep. That keeps happening e.g. in the mountains in northern italy. Cows with huge wounds stumble back from the field, it's horrific. And when the farmers kill a wolf it's an outpour of indignation from animal welfare :/

pvaldes 2y ago
Mastiff dogs are the real culprits in more cases that people would expect. Had been videotaped doing exactly this. A wolf pack will kill the prey, two mastiffs just bite, sit and wait watching the cow die. They can't kill the cow efficiently. They will respect animals in their "family" herd, but don't have this restriction against cattle from other herds or species that are not defending, specially when not feed accurately by the owners (If they guard sheep they can still see young cows as fair game). The main difference between wolves and shepherd dogs is that dogs aren't neither afraid to cows or men.

suzzer99 2y ago

Hyenas too. They sometimes chase their prey for hours until it drops, then leisurely consume the softest parts first, like the genitalia.

krig 2y ago

I doubt that statement was meant to be some kind of absolute rule, big cats will definitely eat you alive if they feel like it. But at least you are perhaps more likely to get a quick death.. The advice I grew up with (in swedish bear country) is to do these things, in order: 1. Make noise while in the woods, bears will generally avoid you if they know you are there. You don’t want to startle a bear. 2. If charged, stay calm, make yourself big and talk to the bear, move slowly. 3. If attacked, play dead. With luck, the bear will lose interest once it doesn’t perceive you as a threat. If it’s hungry, well, bad luck. There have been cases of people scaring bears off by punching them in the nose, so as a final resort I guess that’s something to try.

suzzer99 2y ago
Grizzly: play dead. Black bear: fight back. Polar bear: make your peace with God.
- butisaidsudo 2y ago
  If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, good night.
  - hackeraccount 2y ago
    If it's jelly, put it in your belly. If it's teddy, take it to beddy.
    - jaredhallen 2y ago
      Sedges have edges, rushes are round. Grasses are hollow and grow in the ground.
- Log_out_ 2y ago
  In the hierarchy of fucking with things and getting fucked with ,think of yourself as one of the first. If your solution to problems is sentences that start with so, you are food. What can help is a warmup to kill display. Means,you show a little magic show of dexterity while moving forward. Throw a knife up and down,raise internal doubts.Suprises kill the predator mood.The predator being used to your presence is thus bad.

s1artibartfast 2y ago

I think it is extremely common in the animal world, if not the default. Thinking of other biomes Fish and reptiles almost always do it. I suspect anything which a substantial size difference does it and it is only avoided when you have pretty that is very dangerous to the predator.

teddyh 2y ago

> What is definitely wrong in this article is the claim, that only bears eat living prey. Also wolves do that. And horses¹. And deer². 1. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYNmGMsU18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYNmGMsU18> 2. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk>