Have you ever seen a tiger that ate hundreds of people?
Have you ever seen a big cat that can't even beat the world's largest snake?
Speaking of deadly cats, the first thing that pops up in everyone's mind must be the lion and tiger, because we all know that the lion is the king of all beasts, the tiger is the king of the jungle, and they are all overlords in their respective fields.
But do you know that there is a cat with a body length of less than half a meter, its success rate of hunting is even 3 times that of lions, the number of prey caught in one night is more than the rations of leopards for half a year, and it is called the deadliest cat in the world by the American Life Science Network.
Today I will give you an inventory of the ten deadliest cat species in the world.
In Africa's arid grasslands and bushes, there is a kitten weighing less than 2 kilograms that has won the title of "the world's deadliest cat", that is, the African black-footed cat.
African black-footed cat
It is endemic to Africa, and it is also the smallest cat in Africa, because the soles of the feet have black marks, so it is called a black-footed cat, but we can't see that it grows small, so we ignore its lethality.
Due to the extreme heat in Africa, black-footed cats often come out at night to find food, and almost every 30 minutes they make a hunting attempt.
Due to its light body, good at hiding, and the long hair on the meat mat, the black-footed cat is almost silent when creeping forward, and can kill 10-14 birds or niè(niè) tooth animals in one night, which is equivalent to the number of leopards hunted in 6 months, and the hunting success rate is 60%, which is 3 times that of lions. According to statistics, a single black-footed cat can kill more than 3,000 mice a year.
Of course, it can not only hunt those small mice or birds, some research institutions have observed that the black-footed cat can bite springboks that are twice as large as themselves, or even sheep that are four times larger than themselves, although it cannot kill large animals like tigers and lions, but considering the size of the black-footed cat, its ability to hunt is also amazing enough.
Although the success rate of the black-footed cat is indeed high, after all, what it eats is not on the same order of magnitude as the food of other cats, and it is completely small compared with the cheetah.
cheetah
Cheetahs are best known for their running speed, with an average adult cheetah weighing 45 kilograms, 18 times that of a black-footed cat.
It is reported that its running speed can reach 130 km / h, the fastest 100-meter sprint only takes 5.13 seconds, which is 1.86 times that of Olympic champion Usain Bolt, if the cheetah attacks humans, there is no way to avoid it, fortunately, cheetahs generally do not take the initiative to attack people.
It is very good at hunting, and in the process of chasing its prey, it will constantly bite the throat of its prey, causing them to suffocate to death.
This is not to torture the prey, but because the cheetah's canine teeth are relatively small, plus the cheetah, although fast, can not run at high speed for a long time, otherwise the body load will be relatively large, it is easy to collapse.
In addition, cheetahs do not get food through fighting, so cheetahs often choose to sneak close to the prey first, and then jump out to catch up, a quick decision strategy, trying to kill the prey in 1 minute.
In order to gain an advantage in speed, its body has evolved to become slender, its skeleton is light, its legs are thin and long, and it can control the balance when turning with its tail, and even its claws are blunted so as not to slip, and it is the only cat that cannot retract its claws.
The cheetah sacrificed the sharpness of its claws for speed, which also made it once considered an outlier in the cat family, the large cat that is the least good at climbing trees, while the clouded leopard, which likes to roost and hunt in the tree, has a hunting advantage that cheetahs do not have.
Clouded leopard
Because the skull structure of the clouded leopard is extraordinary, the attachment surface of the neck muscles is very large, so the pull between the head and neck muscles is very powerful, which also makes the bite force of the clouded leopard reach a staggering 163 kilograms, even more than the cheetah that is more than 2 times larger than him.
Moreover, the length ratio of canine teeth of the clouded leopard is also the first in the feline family, extremely sharp, the distance between the jaw (hé) between the canine teeth and the premolar (jiù) teeth is greater than that of any kind of living cat, and even the double jaw (hé) of the clouded leopard can be stretched to 90 degrees, which is larger than that of the saber-toothed tiger, plus there are two obvious blood grooves on the tongue and lip surface, which are very similar to the extinct saber-toothed tiger, so the clouded leopard also has the nickname of "small saber-toothed tiger".
However, the limbs of the clouded leopard are somewhat thick and short, which is to reduce the body center of gravity, with sharp claws, the clouded leopard can not only jump easily on the canopy, but even walk upside down on the horizontal branches, quite against the sky, and its teeth pierce into the body of the prey when hunting, which can bite off the spine of the prey.
The bite force of the clouded leopard is already amazing, but there is a feline that is more deadly than it, that is, the snow leopard, which is also known as the king of the snowy mountains.
snow leopard
As the king of the snowy mountains, the snow leopard does not live in the trees, but relies on the protective color that is very similar to the rocks, and almost dominates the snowy mountains.
It is a highly specialized predator, the main food is a variety of goats that are good at rock climbing, of course, other animals living in the plateau it does not pick, and sometimes even runs to farmers' homes to hunt livestock and poultry.
Because he is very good at ambushing or sneaking attacks, he can jump very flexibly on the high mountains, jumping as far as 15 meters, jumping up to 6 meters, and can walk on the wall on the steep high mountain, coupled with the bite force that is not weaker than the clouded leopard, the success rate of the snow leopard in hunting prey is also 25%.
And it is not gluttonous, after eating enough, it can not look for food for a week, once a snow leopard attacked the herder's flock, but only hunted a sheep, compared with the wolf who likes to slaughter, it looks very Buddhist.
But that doesn't mean the snow leopard has a good temper, and in 2002, a photographer witnessed a scene where the female leopard avenged her son:
Because the young child was killed by the vulture, the seriously injured female leopard, in order to get revenge, pretended to be dead until the murderer approached, and then suddenly jumped up, directly bit off the vulture's neck, and finally fought with more than 20 vultures and died together.
puma
The cougar is the second largest cat in size in the New World after the jaguar, also called the mountain lion, although it sounds domineering, but its temperament is as gentle as the cheetah, if it is raised from an early age, it can even live in peace with cats and dogs.
However, the personality is the character, the strength is the strength, as the first cat with bouncing ability, the running ability is second only to the big cat of the cheetah, and the hunting ability of the cougar is very strong.
Although it is not the top predator on the American continent, it will take the initiative to avoid brown bears, black bears, etc., but its strength cannot be underestimated, and even sometimes mountain lions will fight with these birds of prey for food or protect children, and even kill black bears.
They are extremely good at tracking and sneaking attacks, they are very cunning hunters, like to hunt deer, horses and other ungulates, of course, some small prey will become its plate food, and even they will eat penguins that lay eggs on the shore, but because of their mysterious actions, there are many aliases such as "Indian Devil" and "Elvis Presley".
Leopard
The golden leopard is also called the leopard, because the pattern on the body is very similar to the ancient copper coin, so it is called the golden leopard, because it looks very similar to the cheetah, and is often mistaken for a relative of the cheetah, but the cheetah belongs to the cat subfamily, and the golden leopard is a leopard subfamily, closer to the lion.
Its bite force reaches 226.8 kg, the canine teeth are sharp, the cracked teeth are developed, and it can play a huge role in hunting. His temperament is extremely fierce, his strength is amazing, and he can hang prey heavier than himself on a tree to prevent it from embalming, and then come back to eat it when he lacks food.
And it is also a master of sneak attacks, able to take advantage of the lack of defense of the prey to catch it, and the senses are sharp, good at climbing trees, monkeys and birds roosting in the trees are usually difficult to escape its encirclement, even wild boars are difficult to deal with animals, in front of the golden leopard will obediently obey.
They are extremely patient and physical, when there is a lack of food, the golden leopard can trek tens of kilometers, looking for food, and even from the evening until the sun rises, of course, sometimes have to be thieves, running into the farm to steal chickens, ducks, cows and sheep to fill the hunger.
The golden leopard can kill porcupines and armadillos, which is very strong, but the jaguar that looks like it has a more amazing bite force, more than twice that of the golden leopard.
jaguar
It shares a common ancestor with the golden leopard, lion, snow leopard, and tiger, because its body size is second only to tigers and lions, and its body size is more like a tiger, so it is also called jaguar.
Unlike big cats, which swim but don't like water, jaguars love to swim and live close to water sources, where rainforests and seasonally flooded swampy areas are common habitats.
They usually use a dormant assault to hunt, very crisp, and not picky at all, will not bite the neck like a cheetah and bleed, but directly to the skull of the prey, 567 kg of bite force can directly bite through the skull of the prey, quite powerful, even the bottlenose Caiman is difficult to handle, even the world's largest and heaviest snake - the forest hopper (rán) is not the opponent of the jaguar, the bite force is one of the best in the cat family.
And as the cornerstone species of top predators – they have no predators, are at the top of the food chain, determine the survival of many other species, and play a pivotal role in balancing ecosystems.
The African lion, which also belongs to the leopard subfamily Leopard genus, has the reputation of "king of all animals" as the largest cat in Africa.
African lion
As the only big cats in all cats with significant male-female differences and social life, they are very different from the mountain lions of the cat subfamily.
African lion ears are shorter than mountain lions, and relatively round, strong limbs, broad claws, with strong muscle groups and elastic spine, although the bite force is only 453 kg, not as good as the jaguar, but with sharp teeth and claws, and teamwork, can prey on zebras, antelopes, buffalo and other medium and large animals, so at the top of the food chain, known as the "king of all beasts".
Social life also sets lion hunting different from other cats, as the group consists of a male lion and multiple female lions.
Female lions hunt in teams, while male lions patrol the territory and protect the cubs. Of course, scientists have also found lions in Kenya's Samburu National Reserve that prefer to be alone and live alone unless they mate with female lions.
The king of all beasts has appeared, the king of the jungle should naturally appear, and the Siberian tiger, as the largest tiger and the largest cat, stands out with a bite force of 500 kilograms.
Siberian tiger
Siberian tigers, also known as Siberian tigers, also like to sneak up on their prey, wild boar and red deer are their favorite food, accounting for 80% of all their food, but occasionally eat sika deer and Siberian roe deer (páo) and other small and medium-sized ungulates, and sometimes even prey on black bears and brown bears.
Russian President Vladimir Putin once released a Siberian tiger named Boris, and when he was 2 years old, he killed a 3-year-old black bear.
Even in 2020, it killed a brown bear of more than 200 kilograms, which is extremely strong. Of course, the tiger father has no dog, and Boris's son Thunder has also hunted black bears in the small Xing'anling region of the mainland.
When prey is scarce, the Siberian tiger will also go to grab the prey of the Northeast leopard, which can be said to be very domineering.
However, today's Siberian tigers are already endangered species, and there are only more than 50 in the wild in the mainland's Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park.
In the last place C is the deadliest cat, the Bengal tiger
Bengal tigers
Bengal tiger bite force is not as good as Siberian tiger, only 465 kg, and the size is not as large as Siberian tiger, why is it the deadliest big cat?
This has to mention the Bengal tiger's strong hunting ability and deterrent power, as the most grumpy tiger, it will indiscriminately attack all living creatures that appear in front of it, and even adult Asian elephants will take a detour when they encounter it.
Bengal tigers are not picky eaters, sika deer, wild boar and other mammals can be a plate meal, even the 4-meter-long swamp crocodile, and the white-limbed bison 5.5 times heavier than them are not a problem for them.
A British television station once recorded a female Bengal tiger named Margery killed an adult swamp crocodile in 1 hour, although the price was to break a canine tooth, but it can be seen that the lethality of the Bengal tiger is really amazing, and in Marjorie's 20 years of life, a total of 5 giant crocodiles were killed, known as the Tiger Queen.
But it's not yet the most feared Bengal tiger, as there was a tiger named Champatwa in northern India and Nepal more than a hundred years ago, which ate 436 people in a few years and was even recorded in the world record until it was shot in 1970.
Because the Bengal tiger has the most recorded cannibalism compared to other cats, this inventory lists it as the deadliest cat.
Which cat do you think is the most terrifying?