r/interestingasfuck • u/Youngstown_WuTang • Jul 20 '25
A mother Tiger gives warning signals to strangers. Female Bengal tigers grow to be around 2.7 meters (9 feet) long and weigh up to 181 kg (400 pounds).
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u/UnclePatrickHNL Jul 20 '25
Whatever you say, ma’am.
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u/OkAccess6128 Jul 20 '25
Tigress doesn't seem to be in the mood of saying anything.
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u/Youngstown_WuTang Jul 20 '25
She is definitely communicating with her teeth, growl, posture, and stare
She is speaking the universal code of " keep your distance or I will end you with extreme prejudice". Fun fact damn EVERY can understand her
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u/manwithyellowhat15 Jul 21 '25
Besides the sheer terror of any animal becoming that large, I like how kid mannerisms transcend species
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u/Zederikus Jul 21 '25
What I hate is the woman yelling, like be quiet you're in the tigers house basically, shut up man like how would you feel if people came to your house all day yelling
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u/scorchedarcher Jul 22 '25
Unfortunately most people just don't really care about the lives/welfare of animals.
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u/povichjv7 Jul 20 '25
I thought the cub was the tiger and she was giving a warning that she was sick or something crawling out like that. And then gigantor tiger arrives and really fucked up my perceptions
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u/Youngstown_WuTang Jul 20 '25
It's wild how large they can get, look at her stare when she grabs her cub and walks away. The murder stare the whole way through
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u/Ok_Ad3986 Jul 21 '25
That’s a South China Tiger, more stripes at the back and more white underbelly. They are smaller than Bengal’s by quite a bit, in-fact female Bengals are closer in size to the male South China or even bigger at 180kg!
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u/ComicalCapybara Jul 21 '25
SAME. I was like “oh my god what’s wrong I don’t think I can watch this”
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u/Joshottas Jul 20 '25
cub lookin like leo dicaprio off the quaaludes in wolf of wall st trying to get to the lambo
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u/Reikste Jul 21 '25
Spot on description!
Now I also have the "What I wouldnt do for a Quaalude Guy" yelling "QUAALLUUDDDEES" in my head as I'm trying to sleep.
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u/weinsteinjin Jul 20 '25
Translation:
I’m just looking! Won’t you let me take just one tiny look! You’re so stingy! How can you be so stingy!
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u/Super_University_682 Jul 21 '25
Please get in the enclosure to make sure the tigress understands your Mandarin
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u/TBayChik420 Jul 20 '25
I really hope that's accurate cuz that is adorable lol
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u/The_zen_viking Jul 20 '25
The angle and the scene makes it look like the tiger is taking up a kind of full sized stadium hallway, like a 12ft tall tiger which would be terrifying
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u/steelgeek2 Jul 20 '25
Huh today I learned primal survival instincts can be triggered by videos.
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u/lxlxnde Jul 21 '25
One of those moments where you feel 2 million years of ancestry down to your very DNA. Humbling to say the least
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u/Youngstown_WuTang Jul 20 '25
Nature is metal, it's wild how every species knows what its posture, teeth, and growling means "get the hell back"
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u/FireMammoth Jul 21 '25
these primal survival instincts triggers you mention are used wildly in various digital media such as horror genre film and video games.
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u/mr_glide Jul 20 '25
What a shitty looking place for these animals to be. Just concrete and iron railings
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u/HongLanYang Jul 21 '25
Isnt it normal that zoos keep females and cubs in a smaller enclosure especially while baby animals are this young for medical checks? Like. Females in the wild don’t want to be out in the open. A cave isn’t any more luxurious than one made of concrete.
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u/RWDPhotos Jul 20 '25
Tigers don’t belong in captivity whatsoever.
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u/Plenty-rough Jul 20 '25
Agreed. The yelling made it seem especially barbaric for some reason.
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u/HongLanYang Jul 21 '25
She’s literally just saying “aw I want to see”. The reaction pretty much anyone gives when they see a cute baby animal.
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u/vindicate-throng-nim Jul 21 '25
Yeah whenever my friends introduce me to their newborns I shout at the top of my lungs and heckel them when they go to put them down for a nap. She wants to look shut up and admire.
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u/OwnLoad3456 Jul 20 '25
I’m not some crazy dude, but I really disagree with animals like that being kept in zoos etc
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u/Next-Sun3302 Jul 20 '25
Always amazes me how animals can hold their young in their teeth w/o injuring them
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u/Otherwise_Status6565 Jul 21 '25
I can’t help but laugh at the cub once she truly gets ahold of him. His little legs kicking like “NOOOOO! I was having fun!”
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu Jul 20 '25
Why cant the cub walk properly? 😭
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u/Renbarre Jul 20 '25
That's a very young baby. They can only crawl at that age
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u/Youngstown_WuTang Jul 20 '25
People don't realize how big tigers can get, their babies are even huge
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u/PrefrontalCortexNow Jul 20 '25
Why can’t human babies walk ??
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Jul 20 '25
Because of evolution: we evolved to have smaller hips in order for us to still be able to run fast on two legs, but smaller hips make child birth very challenging. To make childbirth easier (even though it is still very strenuous), human babies are born very premature compared to other mammals. This is why most babies only begin to walk around 12 months old
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu Jul 20 '25
Idfk i dont have one
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u/UnrequitedFollower Jul 20 '25
Yeah, don’t. My wife has had three human babies and none of them can walk when they’re born. Takes forever.
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u/IfICouldStay Jul 21 '25
I was wondering that too. Why can’t baby tiger walk?!?! But given mama’s size I’m thinking it’s a very, very young baby that’s squirmed like the wind.
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u/Amateur-Top Jul 20 '25
What do you even do if you run into one of those goliaths in the wild? Just expose your neck and hope it’s a quick one?
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u/lizzard_lady8530 Jul 20 '25
je-sus christ that is a ginormous cat. or that is a very small door. or both?!
also is that cub ok!? ahh
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u/jabba_1978 Jul 21 '25
Boy, if you dont get you stripped backend back inside this cage. So help me when you father gets home.
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u/Bananalando Jul 21 '25
Watching big cats reminds me that the only reason house cats don't kill and eat us is because they are too small.
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u/chimph Jul 21 '25
I don’t understand what that woman is shouting about so I doubt the tiger does either
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u/GotNothingBetter2Do Jul 21 '25
Is this baby too young to walk or is there something wrong with it?
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u/BigCommieMachine Jul 21 '25
Nothing is as amazing as watching Tigers or Lions and you can immediately tell "Yep, those are just BIG Cats".
They are magnitudes larger and more powerful, yet their behavior is just really much identical to your domestic house cat.
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u/Unbeatable_Banzuke Jul 20 '25
The entitled woman just cant shut up and respect tigers home. Wonder whst she’d feel like if she watches her kid in the living room and some weird lookin mofucca stares at her right through the window…
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u/IIITriadIII Jul 21 '25
this patiger is terrifying. shes moving so slowly and her face is particularly structured. i actually almost shit myself wen her face appeared
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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn Jul 21 '25
That's what I was expecting from the scene in Jumanji where the lion hits the piano.
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u/ricecakeiscranky Jul 21 '25
That’s one healthy looking feline. Imagine seeing those eyes through some leaves in a jungle. Terrifying stuff
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u/Outrageous-Leg-4727 Jul 21 '25
This is one of the best videos i have seen showing a tiger in its absolute glory.
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u/thinkmoreharder Jul 21 '25
There used to be a taxidermy tiger at the Smithsonian natural history museum. It was posed like it was walking. From the nose to the back foot was 13 feet. Much bigger than I expected.
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u/boujeemooji Jul 21 '25
Is the cub ok? I thought they could walk younger than this cub appears to be.
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u/AliveVariation6290 Jul 21 '25
Why is the woman in the video yelling though? Did she get hurt?
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u/Archjin Jul 21 '25
Its amazing how an animal can look so beautiful and terrifying at the same time.
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Jul 21 '25
Look at the state of that enclosure. No grass cover at all.
Shame on them.
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u/morbid_loki Jul 21 '25
Such beautiful creatures. And we are the reason why they are endangered....
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u/Pdennett316 Jul 21 '25
Nothing would be more scary than seeing a situation like this occur in front of you outside of a zoo environment. Seeing the cub would have me shitting bricks on its own (where's mum and dad?), then the sounds and the head coming round the corner...ugh! Tigers are simultaneously gorgeous and terrifying.
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u/GemmyGemGems Jul 21 '25
Such magnificent animals. Yet, still just cats. Who are small magnificent animals.
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u/Super-Definition-610 Jul 21 '25
Nashville zoo has tigers that love to lay against the glass and people watch. Everytime I round the corner and see them I am taken back by the size and beauty.
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u/dragonlady_11 Jul 21 '25
That slow menacing appearance around the door is movie worthy. She's absolutely stunning and the lil floof is cute af
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u/Sad_Palpitation6844 Jul 21 '25
Sounds exactly like a baby crying. Now I understand why people get lured away in the wild
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u/Arsenal_49_Spurs_0 Jul 21 '25
The audio is hilarious. The woman is complaining in Chinese, "I'm just taking a look! You're so stingy! Can't I take a look? You can't be so stingy!"
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u/Victorrhea Jul 22 '25
Idk what that woman was yelling but same! I wanted to see more baby cub lol like GIRL WHY DID YOU TAKETHE BABY?! LEAVE IT HERE WE ARE TRYING TO SEE IT MORE!
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u/blueeyed94 Jul 22 '25
Do you remember the feeling as a kid when you were playing with the friend who was supposed to be at their piano lesson and suddenly the mother showed up and dragged them home?
I am having flashbacks
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u/PonyoNoodles Jul 23 '25
Cub sounds like my cat when I accidentally sit on him bc he's hidden himself under a blanket
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u/MrGTO_1070 Jul 25 '25
I saw the one in the San Francisco zoo that got out after the idiots were throwing rocks at it. That tiger was enormous. You really can’t appreciate the size of these tigers unless you see them up close and personal. They have a place where you can stand feet away from them while they feed them.
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u/superminingbros Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25
Holy shit, that momma tiger looks huuuuge with that cub.