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While I can't dispute your claim to getting some inside info from Roy's doc and I don't doubt that he has indeed suffered multiple injuries form the cats. This whole notion that the tiger was being paternal is a load of shit. It doesn't take someone who is well versed in tiger beahvior to figure this out.
First off, this was a male tiger. They have ZERO paternal instincts, once the tigress is pregnant she drives the male away becuase he would most likely kill the cubs. Let's suppose this wasn't the case and indeed the cat was being protective. A mother tiger moves the cubs becuase she has too, usually when they're too small to move themselves ( anyone who has spent any time with tigers babies knows they start running arond and getting into everything very quickly). So a 400lbs mother tiger is capable of moving a baby weighing less than 5 lbs without biting it in half, but is incapable of moving a grown man without alomst biting his head off? The dexterity that they are capable of with the mouths is impressive to say the least. This was a bite with bad intentions. The cat wanted to kill Roy, period. I have said it in other posts and I will say it again. It's not a matter of whether or not a tiger will try and kill you. It's when a tiger is going to try and kill you.
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