Cats and alligators (WAS Re: Attacking elephants Re: Tyrannosaurus Tail Torque)

[Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>]

The elephant attack aside, you might rethink crocodilian aggressiveness 
after watching two being intimidated by much smaller cats at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sAF8gMN9c0

Maybe these two should be stripped of the archosaurian union cards.

Dan


 On 11/24/2010 8:46 AM, Richard W. Travsky wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, David Marjanovic wrote:
>
> > >  This in contrast to cats, which make sure the victim is well and
> > >  truly dead (except lions, which are sometimes desperate enough to
> > >  start eating while a pridemate is still maintaining the chokehold).
> >
> > Or when they attack elephants, which are simply too big to kill any
> > other way.
>
> Speaking of attacking elephants...
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11795932