Warthog attempts to flee Leopard but is quickly subdued
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  • 1343 points Certain_Draft2866

    Yeah buddy ain’t going nowhere anyway with a crater in his rib cage

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    247 points Furlion

    If you look carefully you can see either a lung or heart moving in the hole before he stands up.

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    10 points spigotface

    Nah, that's a ribcage there. You're either seeing muscles on the outside of the ribcage or a slab of broken ribs moving. Lungs and heart are inside the ribcage, deeper to that injury.

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    114 points No-Spoilers

    Yeah this is a bit much.

    I shot one through the shoulder and lungs and the fucker ran like half a mile before he stopped. Pigs are crazy

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    75 points Sir_Gwan

    Yeah, in medieval times, Wild Boars were known to continue charging even after being impaled with spears. They would literally run up the spear shaft just to kill whoever was holding it. This got so out of hand that people invented the Boar Spear, a spear with wing-like protusions around the blade, to stop Boars from running up the length of the spear.

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    9 points shotokan1988

    I love hearing cool history facts like this. These hogs are wild!

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    6 points ojdhaze

    They look beautiful as well, if you're into blacksmithing/metal working etc..

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    2 points Sir_Gwan

    As someone who does Olympic Fencing and HEMA, I really need to start learning how to use a spear, if only for the chance to actually own a Boar Spear lmao.

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    1 points BrianMeen

    is hunting working when it comes to reducing the population of wild hogs? last I heard it isn’t

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    48 points StuntHacks

    Adrenaline can do wild things

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  • 761 points Iwubwatermelon

    "Here, eat me on this side instead"

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    66 points 1SmartBlueJay

    This took me out

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    1 points ihiam

    lmao

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  • 725 points DeathandGrim

    Man the fact that predators like this don't put you outta your misery before eating you really makes me appreciate not being Hunter gatherer societies anymore

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    341 points ShackledBeef

    Suddenly being shot by a hunter ain't so bad.

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    89 points superchargerhe

    Granted but the hunter has horrible aim and hit a non vital part of the body

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    142 points ShackledBeef

    Still better than that warthog, easily.

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    56 points Shinonomenanorulez

    Yeah but unless the hunter is an asshole or you're good running away you will still have a quicker death as you get a second shot from up close

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    17 points Ram2145

    Impossible. I’m the John Wick of the hunting world.

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    13 points Striper_Cape

    Wohn Jick is the hunter, not you

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    9 points Brainhunter2020

    With a pencil?

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    5 points mtldude1967

    A fucking pencil!

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    4 points goodboah21

    Baby’s first deer hunt

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    5 points shmiddleedee

    "Fuck he shot me in the dick" -some deer in South Carolina last week.

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    69 points Valmar33

    Man the fact that predators like this don't put you outta your misery before eating you really makes me appreciate not being Hunter gatherer societies anymore

    The difference with us humans is that as hunter-gatherers, we would put their prey out of their misery quickly.

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    60 points DeathandGrim

    Oh I'm talking about the predators getting US, not us getting them. Imagine you fuck up a hunt and now you're lunch for however long you remain conscious

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    38 points lambdapaul

    We weren’t lunch very often. Even as hunter gatherers we were still apex predators and kinda standout amongst the other apex predators. Humans are really scary animals.

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    57 points Arctelis

    Turns out a group of screaming mostly hairless apes with pointy sticks is an incredibly effective deterrent to just about anything.

    I mean, fuck. Our ancestors hunted mammoths with nothing more advanced than sharp rocks.

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    23 points hereforthesportsball

    Just imagine the terror of a group of humans hunting you to exhaustion

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    11 points swift1883

    …losing a few good men in the process.

    And, people mostly see shit like that in the wrong light. Going to hunt a mammoth was not some noble warrior thing, or casual. It was “goodbye my love I hope I come back alive, some of us won’t”, it was grueling, not always successful, and if there were any berries or potatoes to eat, they would eat those instead and stay home.

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    3 points Anonpancake2123

    Unless the method used was the pit method, then the odds of someone dying drop dramatically

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    5 points Jboycjf05

    "Drop"

    ...I see what you did there.

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    3 points gafgarrion

    Exactly, even as a some times screaming, almost hairless ape, the thought of a bunch of screaming mostly hairless apes with sticks sounds terrifying.

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    2 points StuntHacks

    And yet people still debate if 100 men can beat a single gorilla

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    0 points history_nerd92

    Eh it was a long road from little tree dwelling apes to apex predators. Many of our ancestors were prey before we figured out how to make tools and weapons.

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    3 points Anonpancake2123

    Toolmaking is ancestral to the homo genus. Our ancestors grew in size and brain capacity as evolution wore on, but notably that size allowed us to use larger and larger tools as weapons.

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    1 points history_nerd92

    That's why I said "from little tree dwelling apes". It took millions of years to get to the point where we were big enough and had the tools to stop being constant prey for big cats, snakes, and giant predatory birds.

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    1 points Anonpancake2123

    idk why you are being downvoted.

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    3 points snow_boarder

    It wasn’t for the animals sake, it was to make it easier for the hunter. If you have to chase wounded prey for miles you lose much of the benefits you were seeking from the animal.

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    2 points nick4fake

    Lol, no. Only when it benefits us

    Like, remind me how we eat lobsters? oysters?

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    36 points Double-decker_trams

    That's why bears are the worst.

    I mean yeah, they look pretty cute and have cute ears, but.. they just start eating you..

    The worthog wasn't dead here, but I'd say that's out of the ordinary. Cats generally go for the jugular - a quick safe kill.

    Bears just.. basically pin you down with their weight and start eating you. They're not very good hunters tbh - they're very strongly omnivores and they actually get the majority of their calories from non-meat stuff. Like eating all sorts of plants - berries, roots, nuts. They're mostly opportunistic carnivores. Depending on the area and season - insects, salmon. And when they have the opportunity - also other bigger animals. Polar bears and pandas are an exception - respectively seal meat and bamboo.

    But since cats are "obligate carnivores" - i.e they need meat (they can't get essential nutrients from plants as bears can), they just became really good hunters. So almost always they kill you first (hopefully quickly) and then start eating you. Not the case with bears.

    And even polar bears - although they eat pretty much just meat - aren't as efficient as cats. I guess they don't need to. https://www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/comments/1j2hlij/a_polar_bear_handling_and_chewing_on_live_seal/

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    11 points [deleted]

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    12 points DrSitson

    It's the bear necessities.

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    5 points enyois

    Well then I just need to learn how to hibernate ez

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    3 points Eunuchest

    My vote is on komodo dragons

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    1 points hereforthesportsball

    They didn’t become great hunters, they always were.

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    11 points ScalyDestiny

    They generally do. Live prey is much more likely to inflict an injury than dead prey.

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    6 points Ok_Antelope_1953

    it's hard to quickly kill prey with thick necks. warthogs, buffaloes, hippos, etc all tend to have painful drawn-out deaths.

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    3 points arcelios

    Humans created the term “sociopathy” but it’s normal for predators. All predators are born sociopaths. They were built to hunt, but empathy directly contradicts that. They just don’t have the empathy or certain emotions. They only know how to hunt their prey and eat. It’s normal for them. Nature

    But most predators do protect their loved ones. They’re territorial. But Everyone else is food

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    2 points nyaminyamiz

    Usually leopards will put you out of your misery quick, but that specific menu item is built different

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    -1 points Caboose2701

    Eh the reason humans were good hunters wasn’t their speed, but their endurance.

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    -20 points KingOfTheIronGroan

    Except that big cats absolutely do kill their prey before eating them. I’m not saying this is ai, but it’s rare for them to eat prey alive.

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    13 points BadBloodBear

    Bro I have seen so much footage of cats eating their prey slowly I am starting to wonder if them killing quickly is some sort of properganda.

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    -9 points KingOfTheIronGroan

    I suppose that’s the conclusion you’d form when you spend your time learning about nature from ai slip TikTok videos instead of real documentaries.

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    6 points ddg31415

    Not true at all.

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    -8 points KingOfTheIronGroan

    Nice to know how dumb the internet is getting

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  • 183 points Tylenol_Ibuprofen

    The small spurt of blood in that gaping wound, good lord.

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    41 points br0mer

    I think it's actually his heart you can see

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    21 points Fog_Juice

    I figured it was a lung inflating

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    28 points narf007

    You'd be closer to correct than the others. The heart lies nearly central and that is definitely not it. It could also be various internal muscles including intercostals.

    But I'm a human doc, not a pumba-ologist.

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    3 points 45khz

    I think so too

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    5 points kashuntr188

    I think its the organs moving.

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  • 53 points SubtractAd

    I mean if a large hole in the side of you isn't concerning. What's the point of worrying eh?

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    33 points dynamicdylan

    Hakuna matata

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    5 points Esacus

    ‘Tis but a scratch!

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  • 21 points FCK_GOVERNMENTS

    That’s wrestling 1x1

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  • 16 points iEatFalseMorels

    Damn I wish pain receptors didn’t exist (obviously I know they’re necessary) but I hate seeing suffering

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    8 points foomp

    A large component of the pain response is emotional, which varies from person to person and creature to creature. That's one of the reasons some people say they have a high pain tolerance -- they have a lower emotional response.

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    0 points BrianMeen

    so is it safe to say people that are more emotional tend to not be able to handle pain as well?

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  • 14 points TheDaemonair

    Rip Pumba

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  • 10 points Distinct_Put1085

    That boar has massive tusks im sure it didn't go down easy, that leopard is a bad mf

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    7 points Blue_Butterfly_Who

    Yeah the warthog is about the same size as the leopard as well. Talk about kick-ass hunter

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  • 8 points NoReasonDragon

    Damn leopards are topping the charts in December.

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  • 8 points Muerteds

    He didn't try to run, he made one last attempt to gut that leopard.

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  • 7 points PeaceAccomplished289

    When my borrito decided to roll on the other side

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  • 7 points achmed242242

    For some reason I was expecting to see an a-10 warthog get shot down by a leopard tank SMH

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  • 6 points SlipNSlider54

    Kinda hard to flee with a gaping wound in your armpit

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  • 3 points whybutts

    Last kicks of a dying warthog

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    2 points ojdhaze

    Great album title or band name.

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  • 2 points zarnovich

    When your lunch gets up halfway through and fries to run away, it's such a pain

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  • 2 points BlackBirdG

    First time I saw a leopard eating a warthog alive. Most of the time, it's lions or wild dogs doing that.

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  • 2 points Eunuchest

    Mofo aint done with living. Gotta respect it

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  • 2 points RednoseReindog

    No way a leopard did that sort of damage to that warthog. That is brutal.

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  • 2 points macetheface

    leopard livin his best life

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  • 2 points SurgeHard

    Cats usually kill before eating their prey. There’s more to this. Also impressive grappling/ top control by the cat

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  • 1 points UntappdBeer

    Luau! If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat Eat my buddy Pumbaa here because he is a treat

    Come on down and dine On this tasty swine All you have to do is get in line

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  • 1 points Squid8867

    Its like when the waiter tries to take your plate too early

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  • 1 points Raithed

    Hey, it tried.

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  • 1 points peezytaughtme

    It always sucks to watch them fight it; but, then again, it'd probably be depressing if they didn't.

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  • 1 points ChrisLetsPlayYT

    Every day I'm reminded how lucky I am to be a human and most likely never experience that amount of pain

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  • 1 points Practical_Smell_4244

    It eats it alive because it has more body temperature and higher temperature makes the since of taste more tastey so you really enjoy the taste and amora more

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  • 1 points Yahya_sindhi1502

    Change the title to "Leopard performs open heart surgery on Warthog"

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    1 points haikusbot

    Change the title to

    "Leopard performs open heart

    Surgery on Warthog"

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  • 1 points WolverineAgitated602

    Nature is wild

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  • 1 points AnonymousRedditor-

    Anyone else think the warthog was gonna get a killing shot in on that leopard as the last attempted freedom?

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  • 1 points No_Freedom_4098

    That warthog is the same size as the leopard. They are tough, strong animals; sometimes warthogs gut attacking leopards with their tusks. You can tell the leopard is tired after this struggle with a formidable foe. How long did it take the leopard to bite out that hole in the warthog's chest?

    Periodically people write that predators don't take risks for fear of injury. Not true for leopards and lions; taking risks with prey is common for these big cats. Domestic cats are the risk averse ones -- rarely attacking anything more than 1/4 of their size. They're labeled great hunters: Not hard when most of your favored prey is rodents less than 1/20 your weight.

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  • 0 points enyois

    Omg I got a hole in mah body said the piggy 😭

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  • -38 points kinghalifax902

    Ai

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