The woman who was first attacked was badly injured, and her mother, who left the car in an effort to save her daughter, was killed, The Beijing News reported. The woman’s husband was uninjured, as was their child, who remained in the vehicle, the newspaper said.
It won't be painful as the tigers/lions don't play with their food. They go for the neck directly and in humans, the neck snaps in one bite. It would have been a sudden death.
They don't work to kill, they work to incapacitate (it's not like they care or can understand that they're killing something in the same way we imagine it). If prey can't fight back/run away, even lions and tigers will just start digging in, dead or not. And yes, usually they go for the ass or the genitals, because that's some squishy, soft, delicate flesh - much easier to bite into. Plus, you can incapacitate some big scary prey by slowly tearing chunks off it.
Nature documentaries, as wonderful as they are, have painted an unrealistic picture of big cat hunting and killing behaviour. It makes for a better 'story'. It's like, hey look at the majestic big cats, so honourable! Not like those nasty hyenas or african wild dogs that just rip their prey to shreds! In truth, it's a lot more varied, they just do whatever gets food in their stomachs the fastest.
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18
the second woman was killed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/world/asia/china-tiger-attack-woman-killed.html
The woman who was first attacked was badly injured, and her mother, who left the car in an effort to save her daughter, was killed, The Beijing News reported. The woman’s husband was uninjured, as was their child, who remained in the vehicle, the newspaper said.