Clyde beatty`s words on lions vs tigers
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Clyde beatty`s words on lions vs tigers
by boldchamp Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:00 pm
here is a document of what clyde had to say of a fight between a lion and tiger;
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Re: Clyde beatty`s words on lions vs tigers
by SchamahKing Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:53 pm
He worked with lions and tigers for over 40 years , right ?
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Re: Clyde beatty`s words on lions vs tigers
by boldchamp Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:16 pm
....yeah, here is further statements from beatty, later in his career;
"if what i have witnessed in the arena applies to an encounter in
the open, the tiger would try to get away. the lion would pursue him
and try to engage him. in
an enclosure-and this is based on forty years of observation-the lion
is almost invariably the aggressor and the tiger habitually tries to
avoid him"
"if it were possible to walk into a stadium and witness a fight
between these two most powerful of the big cats, first placing a
pari-mutual bet on the outcome,
i would put my money on the lion. i would be backing a belief that he
would win through a combination of superior power and tactics designed
to get the tiger
to wear himself out. the lion would fight calculatingly, and one of his
objectives would be to conserve his strength. one of several ways of
accomplishing this
would be to avoid becoming paw-weary, a condition that would handicap
him as much as arm-wearing depletes a boxer.
paw-clouting is one of the favorite methods of attack of the big
cats. it is their form of boxing. sometimes, as shown in illustration
number twenty-seven in
the photo section, they raise up on their hind legs when they deliver
these blows, which can be shattering when they connect. a miss can be
shattering too-to
the animal that misses. a series of such misses can bring on the
paw-weariness referred to. from my own observations, the tiger misses
much oftener than the
lion and therefore is likely to tire faster. by the same token, the
tiger leaves himself "wide open" more frequently than the lion.
on one of my movie-making excursions to hollywood, one of my
toughest lions (sultan the first) was in a scrappy mood-perhaps
disliking the role of
motion-picture actor-and one by one took on and whipped every tiger in
my act. it was an amazing performance since my entire entourage
consisted of big, young,
powerful animals. so these were not pushovers that sultan defeated.
this remarkable lion, feinting like a clever boxer and making his
opponents miss, would
then send the off-balance enemy sprawling across the arena with a
tremendous clout..........occasionally i am told that i am prejudiced
on the subject. if i
am, it is a prejudice born of experience. the sum total of what i have
witnessed in the arena tells me over and over again that the lion is the
"king of beasts". or at least the mightiest of the big cats"
"if what i have witnessed in the arena applies to an encounter in
the open, the tiger would try to get away. the lion would pursue him
and try to engage him. in
an enclosure-and this is based on forty years of observation-the lion
is almost invariably the aggressor and the tiger habitually tries to
avoid him"
"if it were possible to walk into a stadium and witness a fight
between these two most powerful of the big cats, first placing a
pari-mutual bet on the outcome,
i would put my money on the lion. i would be backing a belief that he
would win through a combination of superior power and tactics designed
to get the tiger
to wear himself out. the lion would fight calculatingly, and one of his
objectives would be to conserve his strength. one of several ways of
accomplishing this
would be to avoid becoming paw-weary, a condition that would handicap
him as much as arm-wearing depletes a boxer.
paw-clouting is one of the favorite methods of attack of the big
cats. it is their form of boxing. sometimes, as shown in illustration
number twenty-seven in
the photo section, they raise up on their hind legs when they deliver
these blows, which can be shattering when they connect. a miss can be
shattering too-to
the animal that misses. a series of such misses can bring on the
paw-weariness referred to. from my own observations, the tiger misses
much oftener than the
lion and therefore is likely to tire faster. by the same token, the
tiger leaves himself "wide open" more frequently than the lion.
on one of my movie-making excursions to hollywood, one of my
toughest lions (sultan the first) was in a scrappy mood-perhaps
disliking the role of
motion-picture actor-and one by one took on and whipped every tiger in
my act. it was an amazing performance since my entire entourage
consisted of big, young,
powerful animals. so these were not pushovers that sultan defeated.
this remarkable lion, feinting like a clever boxer and making his
opponents miss, would
then send the off-balance enemy sprawling across the arena with a
tremendous clout..........occasionally i am told that i am prejudiced
on the subject. if i
am, it is a prejudice born of experience. the sum total of what i have
witnessed in the arena tells me over and over again that the lion is the
"king of beasts". or at least the mightiest of the big cats"
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