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Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 27, 2007, 07:31:40 PM
Old old film

In spite of the obviously..ahem man made tiger growels
This fight actually becomes pretty intence

Nice peice of footage

And thats a BIG flippen snake

Tiger vrs Python (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFCcvZFP6D8)
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: lasersailor184 on January 27, 2007, 08:31:33 PM
That video looks so set up.
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: Halo on January 28, 2007, 12:15:30 AM
I'm amazed the tiger didn't simply crush the python's skull.  Seems that was the general idea.  Can't believe the python could have survived that, and equally amazing the tiger got so wrapped up but not put away.

Kind of funny the hunter climbing a tree to watch a tiger-python fight.  That's like running into the ocean to escape a shark.  Maybe they were just saving him for dessert.
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: VooWho on January 28, 2007, 12:30:14 AM
Oh they were just playing. The tiger and python are just great buddies. :D


I think the fight was real, but the guy was just filmed later in that spot to look like he was there at the time of it. Who knows, even old time movies still confuse us on if it was real, or fake.
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: Halo on January 28, 2007, 12:38:51 PM
Yeah, lots of artful splicing in the old movies, and black & white made it much easier to match up.  But although the elevated viewpoint matches the camera angle on the fight, it's still funny showing the hunter climbing a tree to "safely" watch two tree-climbing predators.  

Then again there is no safe place to watch a tiger-python fight except maybe a buttoned-up Stryker.
Title: Re: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: Ack-Ack on January 28, 2007, 01:57:47 PM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Old old film

In spite of the obviously..ahem man made tiger growels
This fight actually becomes pretty intence

Nice peice of footage

And thats a BIG flippen snake

Tiger vrs Python (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFCcvZFP6D8)


It's an old Disney wildlife educational film.  These films were notorious for staging supposedly "normal" activities of animals.  The most famous one Disney staged was the wildlife educational film about the Lemmings.  The film captured hundreds of thousands of Lemmings leaping to their deaths for no apparent reason and started the myth of the suicide lemming.  What the film didn't show were "lemming wranglers" gathering up the Lemmings and then a helicopter flying off camera and very close to the ground herding the lemmings off the cliff.


ack-ack
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: SirLoin on January 28, 2007, 02:13:38 PM
If it was an equal sized boa..tiger woulda been toast.
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: Angus on January 28, 2007, 05:02:55 PM
Looks like a small tiger to me. Bear in mind that tigers have been known to kill corocodiles more than their size.
What surprized me was that the tiger din't crush the python's head or rather spinal chord.
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: ghi on January 28, 2007, 10:47:56 PM
monkey vs dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcchyicTNo4)
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: skernsk on January 28, 2007, 10:52:32 PM
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Originally posted by Angus

What surprized me was that the tiger din't crush the python's head or rather spinal chord.


Spinal Chord?  Aint them there critters sans-spinal chord?
Title: Tiger Vrs Python
Post by: Slash27 on January 29, 2007, 02:34:33 PM
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Originally posted by skernsk
Spinal Chord?  Aint them there critters sans-spinal chord?


Something has to get the message from his brain to his bellybutton to start crawling.