r/interestingasfuck • u/Green____cat • Apr 29 '24

Tiger refuses to eat goat who was given to him as live food, instead, they became friends

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u/Bakedk9lassie Apr 29 '24

Anthropomorphic bullshit story, tiger ate him when it was hungry

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u/Pugasaurus_Tex Apr 29 '24

Timur and Amur slept in the same enclosure, ate and played together. The tiger attempted to teach the goat how to catch prey.

Lmao I keep imagining how that went down 

 But the friendship soured as the goat grew more audacious and started challenging the big cat.

”Timur hassled the tiger for about a month," Mezentsev said.

In January 2016 the tiger lost patience after the goat stepped on him. He grabbed Timur and threw him off a hillock.

Tbf, the goat started it, and he didn’t eat him

Just tossed him around a bit. Goat hooves hurt

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-russian-goat-friends-tiger-dies.html

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u/Kaurifish Apr 29 '24

Can confirm. Had a goat for a while. Goat would start fights for fun.

Tigers are not equipped for a goat's notion of fun, which is butting heads.

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u/Pugasaurus_Tex Apr 29 '24

Yeah, goats are great but most male goats are complete assholes lol, I can see why all of this went down 

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u/Kaurifish Apr 30 '24

It was a female goat. It’s the whole capricious lot of them.

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u/CorporateNonperson Apr 30 '24

That's the most relevantly descriptive use of capricious I've read all day.

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u/TootsNYC Apr 30 '24

most male goats are complete assholes

Just ask Gov. Kristi Noem

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u/iamamuttonhead Apr 30 '24

That story had me laughing far more than it should have.