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Who said a cat can't fend off TWO alligators?

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Let me know when such cat is able to do that to a Nile crocodile.
American Gators are pussies compared to Nile Crocs.
 
Gators aren't normally aggressive on land. Growing up in gainesville, fl, I've been very close to gators on land (< 1'). Usually, they just come up on land to warm themselves. They are dangerous as fuck in the water, though. That's where they actually kill their prey.
 
someone tell me what in the living hell those people were doing standing so close to those gators...
 
eits said:
someone tell me what in the living hell those people were doing standing so close to those gators...
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like the one guy standing there leaning against the tree while the gator's 4 feet away looking at him...
 
Fayd said:
like the one guy standing there leaning against the tree while the gator's 4 feet away looking at him...
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Again, gators aren't particularly dangerous on land. They're slow as hell when not in the water. They go up on land to sun themselves & get kind of dopey, before going back into the water to hunt.
 
Iron Woode said:
true, but cats on land can defy the laws of physics.
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Yeah, I've seen my cat leap 5 feet in the air from a standstill when I surprised her.

I've been trying to find a video of this for awhile, but maybe 5 years ago I was watching a show on animal planet about desert animals. I believe this was in either Australia or Africa. The desert fox with giant ears was one of the animals they followed. But they also followed a feral cat that lived in the desert. He looked like a regular cat, only tan with a spiky ridge of fur down his spine...he also panted constantly due to the desert heat and cats don't generally pant (probably because they're lazy). The cat they followed chased the desert fox out of its own den during a sandstorm for a place to hide. But most impressive was the scene of the cat killing and eating a rattlesnake for food and fluids. The cat baited the rattlesnake into striking at it repeatedly, only to leap backwards just out of kill range and slash at its head and neck at the same time. It did this a number of times before the rattlesnake's head was so shredded it finally died.

That said, I'm sure 50 cats died for every one that learned how to take down rattlesnakes in the desert!
 
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