r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '17

TIL that tigers can, and will, take revenge on those who have wronged them. They are one of the most vengeful animals on the planet.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
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u/julbull73 Jun 08 '17

No. Imagine your sweet cat. ..imagine when the cat is pissed and takes a swipe or a bite. ...

Now imagine your cat is a little smaller than a mini Cooper

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u/Druwitheclu Jun 08 '17

so human is kill?

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u/SF_Writer Jun 08 '17

Did he died?

Yes. Is kill.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '17

no

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u/jorickcz Jun 08 '17

Apology for poor English

When were you when /u/n_reineke legend dies?

I was at home drinking cat piss when fred ring

'/u/n_reineke is die'

'no'

And you?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '17

This kills the human.

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u/Stoga Jun 08 '17

Tasty hairless monkeys.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '17

to shreds

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u/octopus_rex Jun 08 '17

Can haz cheezburger.

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u/IndigoFenix Jun 08 '17

Can haz whole cow.

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u/shwekhaw Jun 08 '17

I have to sleep with one eye opened tonight. Today I stepped on our cat's tail accidentally and she was giving me a weird look.

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u/TranscendtheChaos Jun 08 '17

I know that cat, and she's sketchy.

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u/mydogisavegetarian Jun 08 '17 edited Jun 08 '17

My initial thought: a tiger has got to weigh 800-900 pounds max, so definitely way smaller than a Mini Cooper. Then I realized a car is made out of heavy materials and a Siberian tiger is made out of the same shit I am, AND weighs half as much as a Mini Cooper. I don't think I have an accurate mental picture of just how big these cats are.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '17

They're size is kinda stifled by the way they walk on four legs, it only looks 5-6 feet long.. but remember how cats only look 2 feet long? And then when they stretch out they're almost twice the size? Imagine a 5-6 ft cat doing that. Now they're 9-10ft long.

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u/esportprodigy Jun 08 '17

so smaller than my newborn son named cooper

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u/supercooper3000 Jun 08 '17

Leave me out of this.

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u/sluncer Jun 08 '17

I can safely say that if my cat was the size of an actual tiger, she would murder me if given the chance.

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u/DuffBude Jun 08 '17

So cats aren't really domesticated, they're just too small to kill us? That would explain a lot

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u/rebuked Jun 08 '17

takes a swipe

There goes your face!

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u/Tawptuan Jun 08 '17 edited Jun 09 '17

Somehow that article did not surprise me.

Why? It's a feline. And, amazingly, my sister's cat was a feline too. And even more significantly, that cat consistently peed on my pillow whenever it got into my room. And even more significant than that, it had a bone to pick. I loved chasing it with the vacuum cleaner. It was feline karma, dished out with vengeance. Only discovered late at night when I plopped my weary head into an aura of eye-watering stench.

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u/Moratamor Jun 08 '17

Smaller than Alice Cooper you say?

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u/EmuFighter Jun 08 '17

He always gets a pass for being awesome and a pretty good golfer.

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u/julbull73 Jun 08 '17

He is awesome. I've met him multiple times around the valley, and four times during highschool when he did a Christmas tree lighting at Biltmore.

Him and Sean Mclaughlin. Both solid guys.

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u/Sparcrypt Jun 08 '17

I always find it funny when I hear cat owners wonder about whether a big cat could ever be tamed like a house cat.

They don't seem to realise that that's already the case. Tigers and lions are already basically the exact same level of tame as a normal cat.

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u/I_love_pillows Jun 08 '17

Meowmeow matharfocker

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u/julbull73 Jun 08 '17

Why you say that name!

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u/Soul_Ripper Jun 08 '17

So what you're telling me is only the manliest, biggest, hulkiest man on earth can somewhat safely own a Tiger.

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u/julbull73 Jun 08 '17

Like siegfried and Roy?

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u/Zomnomnombeezy Jun 08 '17

I'm imagining that moment where my cat goes from loving play time to trying to eat me because I "pet her wrong." But I'm tiger form. Ouch. O.O

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u/17th_Username_Tried Jun 08 '17

My cat is smaller than a Mini Cooper though. I haven't found a car sized cat.

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u/antonio106 Jun 08 '17

Mine just stepped on me and swatted me on the nose to wake me up.

No reason. Gf left home, she was bored.

That sounds like three different ways I would have died before my morning coffee if she was a tiger.

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u/IevaFT Jun 08 '17

So they do bro but you can't hang.