Monday 27 October 2014

SOME NATURES MOST IMPRESSIVE FIGHTERS: What do you think?

Well every breathing specie on earth has one common character.. FIGHTING!. As we humans quarrel and fight so do animals..

Here are some animals and there fighting characters


  • KANGAROO

It usually relates to reproduction. Males will often fight for reproductive access to a female, and females will often fight to defend their young. Kangaroos can't walk backwards very well and don't walk well at all. But man can they hop -- up to 9 feet per hop and up to 45 feet when they really get going. To fight, they balance on their tails and kick with their powerful hind legs and feet, which have especially nasty fourth toes with long, dangerous nails.



  • RATTLE SNAKE
When two rattlesnake males meet they will size each other up, and if they’re a similar size, they’ll engage in combat.
The front third of their body will stand up in the air, and they’ll wrap their necks around each other and try to wrestle each other to the ground basically pinning each other and pushing each other down.
For the most part, rattlesnakes tangle (literally) to gain mating rights when there’s a female in the area, and they have little interest in the fight turning fatal for either of them.
They don’t do it do the death. I don’t know how they figure out who won, but eventually one decides that he’s been bested and he crawls [away.]



  •  LIONS
  The king of the jungle himself: when African lions fight, it’s usually about social hierarchy and all the benefits that come with being leader of the group.
Lions are famous for living in [prides], with a dominant male and harem of females and cubs,Other males will challenge the dominant male for the right to lead the pride.
And a smaller male probably wouldn’t try it on his own, but sometimes the solitary males form little prides of their own and will try to usurp a dominant male.
Lion battles are riskier than the ritualized combat seen in rattlesnakes, for instance.
When a dominant male is challenged, he’s got a lot of stake in winning that fight because he’s already reproduced, a lot of his cubs are in that pride, and one of the things a new male will do is kill all of those cubs.
As a result,those are pretty vicious fights.

  • CHICKENS
Yeah! don't be surprised. Have you ever watched chickens fight? Its as if they are screaming at each other! lol. There’s a whole industry of fighting roosters. What they’re doing is capitalizing on their natural behavior.
they have really torn each others clothings LOL!

There are four species of jungle fowl, and all of them have these little spurs on their feet, which are for the purpose of fighting other males, noting that they probably also use them to fight off predators.
The brutal practice of cockfighting, in which chickens often fight to the death, is illegal in all U.S. states. In countries where it’s still practiced, cockfighters often enhance the roosters natural weaponry by putting little blades on their foot spurs, and that increases the damage potential,
Even on your run-of-the-mill chicken farm, rooster aggression is well known.
“That’s probably why most farms only have one rooster.”


  • TORTOISE
They have this reputation as being these slow, docile creatures, but they will also fight with each other for the opportunity to mate.
For instance, male gopher tortoises of the southeastern U.S. boast a built-in weapon,a jutting piece of shell called a gular projection that helps it flip the rival tortoise on its back.
 That’s a pretty precarious position for a tortoise. So when one is on its back, the fight is over and the victor is free to court the female!.
So does the victorious tortoise finish his rival off while he’s upside down and at his mercy?
No, but when a tortoise is on its back, it’s really vulnerable to exposure or to predators, so it is sometimes a death sentence. Even the best animal fighters try to avoid risky duels!.
The big fight generally happens when they can’t figure out who would win, and then they go at it!

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