What’s the most terrifying animal in the ocean?
The Bobbit Worm. This animal is straight out of a horror movie. I’m convinced they came from the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. The worm falls into…
How can a giant panda defend itself against predators like tigers, brown bears, wolves?
It’s a bear – and quite a big one. It’s unlikely to encounter any of those animals, and most of them would have more sense than to try…
Why are male polar bears afraid of walruses?
Let’s take a look at our two contestants: – The polar bear, the biggest and heaviest living land carnivore on earth, weighs at around 450 kg (992 lbs),…
What’s the smartest thing ants have been observed doing?
When I was still at university I set up an anthill between two sheets of glass, so that I could observe the behavior of ants in their daily…
Do cats really think we are cats too?
Paul Leyhausen, a scientist who studied the behavior of cats (wild, domestic, big and small) concluded that they have three ways of classifying other animals: as prey, as…
Who would win a one-on-one fight between a crocodile and an elephant in the water?
Take a look at this: That is a fully grown Bull Elephant walking through a river infested with hippos. If I showed you the actual video, you would…
How do you survive a Komodo Dragon attack?
In the Komodo Islands of Indonesia, one of the seven wonders of the natural world, 3,000 giant lizards are known to be throughout the world as glutton, meat…
If you are in an open area of the Arctic tundra and are approached by an aggressive polar bear, what should you do?
A polar bear will kill you, stone dead, without provocation. It does so because it is both a hyper carnivore and an apex predator. It does not recognize…
If Siberian tigers were released in Yellowstone National Park, would the area’s population of grizzly bears be decimated? Would the bears amount to easy calories for the big cats?
Roman records answer this question definitively. The now extinct Atlas Brown Bear (9 ft/2.7m long and weighed up to 1,000 lbs/450 kg) and the Palestinian Brown bear, similar…
Can an ostrich outrun a lion and a tiger?
“Can”? Most definitely. Listen, Lions and Tigers are both exceptionally fast and explosive predators. They have just about every single advantage on the ostrich. But Ostriches aren’t just the…