lol, yeah.

Saying that, when my cats play fight, they always scratch and bite around the necks. Maybe it's because thats not how they hunt that they do that.
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Oh...so confuseing.

You'd think jaguars did the same. you learn something new evreyday, I guess.
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I don't think jaguars bite at all to kill - they kill with a single punch like action to the body...generally the rib cage. The probably use their teeth to hold the animal in place, but it's the punch that does the damage.

Other wounds, such as claw marks, have been found on dead livestock...anyway, the point was that there's no evidence whatsoever that it's the work of dogs. All the evidence points to big cats
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Uh-huh. It just seems strange though.

CR, can you tell me a bit more about how per-rarn-uh's hunt. And how to spell that why you're there, lol.

Just an intrest of mine.
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Why are we still discussing this.Everybody agrees these are illegally smuggled cats,which they are.So case closed!

Are the urban legends true? Like that they strip cows of all but the bones, for example?

Sorry, but when you get a species like pirahana, your bound to get some good stories, even if they're not all true.
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Hmmmm...

Thats kind of cool.

Do pirhanas fight eachother?

And what size groups are they usually in?
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Jaguars, for example, don't kill by biting the neck. They instead deliver a single savage blow to the body.

I watched a documentary about jaguars once...one of them killed a girraffe

Cheetah's and lions are the only big cats that suffocate their prey by biting the neck.

Typically, jaguars kill large prey animals such as capybaras by biting into the head and crushing the skill. They have the most powerful jaw muscles of any cat, since they go after such tough targets as skulls and turtle shells.
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Typically, jaguars kill large prey animals such as capybaras by biting into the head and crushing the skill. They have the most powerful jaw muscles of any cat, since they go after such tough targets as skulls and turtle shells.



A giraffe? Was is in captivity?



All big cats except the jaguar use a suffocating bite to the throat or clamp the mouth shut as their main method of killing.
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Larger cats often hunt prey with a body size equal to, if not larger, than their own and here the nape bite is not always successful in dispatching the victim. In such circustances the throat bite is used. Here the cat will hold the struggling animal with it's paws whilst applying a bite to the victims throat. Unlike the neck bite, which despatches the victim quickly. the throat bite takes longer to kill prey. It is also debateable as to the exact cause of death and indeed this probably varies depending on the relative sizes of prey and predator. The most probable and common cause of death from the throat bite is that of suffocation, with the windpipe of the victim being crushed by the cats powerful jaws. Some also suggest that the lower parts of the skull may be damaged in the bite, thus affecting the victims central nervous system.

One further variation to the throat bite has been observed in the big cats such as the leopard. Here the cat locks it's jaws around the muzzle or mouth of the victim and holds it until the animal has suffocated.

Good find  -

Anyone know the Las Vegas performers "Seigfreid & Roy" - Roy was bitten on the neck by his white lion during his performance. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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It was a 7 (?) year old leucistic male bengal tiger.
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So what catagory does the Siberian Tiger come under??

This guy made it to Ripley's Believe it Or Not & Guinness World Records for trying to look like a cat: