tlb wrote:cthia wrote:But an empathic advantage against a grizzly bear might enable a Cat to blind the bear by clawing out his eyes.
Might. Clawing the eyes would work on any predator, including the Hexapuma and Peak Bear.
Good point. In fact, I can imagine that that is the only tactic available to a single Cat or clan when attacking a Puma; and I imagine that that was the tactic used in the one encounter you posted upstream. Thanks btw.
But a hexapuma is a very big beast and if its strength is proportional to its size, he can kill a Cat with a single swipe of his claws. Even backhanded. I'm talking about a one punch knockout. That leaves the problem of how to get to its eyes. They could try to bring it to its knees, and I don't see that happening, or attacking all at once trying to scurry up its backside. Or, perhaps treecats can use a tactic like ants and form a ladder and leap off the top of the many piles formed.
But all and all I can't shake the image of the documentary that chronicled the aftermath of a pack of hyenas, led by its leader, attacking a lone pack of female lions and killing a cub. The big bad male lion finally returned and she told him all about it. The male lion sought out the hyenas and attacked the entire pack killing the leader and torturing it right in front of the entire pack. It was something to watch. A pack of hyenas is no pushover. But an angry male lion is to be avoided at all costs.
Or it reminds me of King Kong battling all of those tiny creatures attacking at once. They had the numbers, but Kong is a big, huge S O B. Like the Puma.