In 2016, someone photographed a Tibetan mastiff and a snow leopard snatching food and forcing back the Tibetan horse bear, and the Tibetan mastiff, which had been silent for 6 years, once again became a hot topic in the mouths of netizens.
Could it be that the Tibetan mastiff after the wild is really so powerful?
From a climatic point of view, Africa is located near the equator, and under the influence of the equatorial low pressure, it is hot and dry all year round, which forms the savannah landscape.
Even carnivores that live on the African savannah all year round need to be aware of heat waves, such as cheetahs trying to keep their high-speed state time to less than 1 minute, otherwise they will fall to the ground due to overheating, lions and hyenas must retreat in the face of hot weather.
Looking at the Tibetan mastiff, they mainly live in pastoral areas or semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas with an average altitude of 2000 to 4000 meters, for example, the average annual temperature of the Maqu grassland is 03～1.4, so in order to adapt to the cold and humid climate, the Tibetan mastiff evolved thick hair.
The average altitude of the African mastiff is 1200 meters, the Tibetan mastiff is transferred from the average altitude of 3000 meters, transferred to the African grassland, the blood vessels are easy to rupture, when the Tibetan mastiff was fried to a sky-high price, many wealthy businessmen spent huge sums of money to buy the Tibetan mastiff, and died within a few days, one of which is that the altitude environment can not be adapted, and the Tibetan mastiff with poor physique is easy to die, and vice versa.
Once the Tibetan mastiff enters the African savannah, in addition to the need to adapt to the altitude, the most affected is the hot climate.
The average temperature of the African grassland is 24 30, and the thick hair makes them urgently need to dissipate heat, and 100 Tibetan mastiffs immediately lie down collectively, and their combat effectiveness drops sharply.
So can a Tibetan mastiff ever beat a lion?
In terms of weight, the average weight of the Tibetan mastiff is 45 kilograms, the average weight of the adult African male lion is 185 kilograms, and even if the female lion weighs only half of the male lion, it is more than 90 kilograms, far exceeding the Tibetan mastiff.
In the past, I heard businessmen boast about how powerful the Tibetan mastiff is, but later someone measured the bite force and found that the bite force of the Tibetan mastiff was only 845 kilograms, compared to lions.
As the top predator of the African savannah, the lion has a very amazing combat effectiveness, and every lion has grown up in battle since childhood, and the hunting work of the lion pack is undertaken by the lioness, and the young lioness only has half a comfortable day, and then needs to follow the lion pack to participate in the hunt, front 15 years is the learning stage, and after the age of 2, you will officially participate in hunting.
The lion is more fierce, 0At the age of 5, he began to learn to hunt, after the age of 2, he was driven out of the lion group, and worked alone in the grassland, and began to challenge the lion king after the age of 5, and the successful male lion became the new lion king, and the failed continued to exercise, and then repeated the challenge until death, after becoming the lion queen, the male lion had to fight with other challengers, basically regardless of the lion or the lioness, as long as it was a lion, he was fighting all his life.
On the other hand, the Tibetan mastiff is just a domesticated dog, under the protection of humans to undertake the work of caring for the home, it can be said that life is relatively comfortable, we all know that wild animals and domestic animals in terms of combat effectiveness, not half a star and a half.
And the Tibetan mastiff has no hierarchical concept, even if 100 Tibetan mastiffs temporarily form a team, it is difficult for them to have a clear social structure.
In its heyday, it is not a problem for a lioness to press 6 Tibetan mastiffs, if in the African grassland, due to environmental changes, a lioness can completely suppress 10 Tibetan mastiffs, and the lion king can suppress 15 Tibetan mastiffs, so it only takes an ordinary lion group to suppress the Tibetan mastiff breathlessly.
And in the process of fighting, the Tibetan mastiff "has no leader", and the disadvantage of fighting separately is that when it encounters a strong opponent, the Tibetan mastiff will retreat out of instinct and dare not shoot at the lion.
The speed of the Tibetan mastiff is slow, the palm strike force is low, and the bite force is low, so that even if they hit the lion, assuming that the damage is 9, but the lion only needs to hit the Tibetan mastiff once, the damage power will directly rise to 99.
Since the Tibetan mastiff can't beat the lion, what about the class hyena?
Spotted hyenas weigh 45-63 kg in males and 55-82 in females5 kilograms, the whole is larger than the Tibetan mastiff, and has incredibly powerful jaws and teeth, can easily bite bones, so the spotted hyena is also called "bone crusher" by many netizens.
The African savannah is the home of the spotted hyena, and in the same way, each spotted hyena will grow up in battle from an early age, and the spotted hyena has a clear social structure, and its collective combat ability even exceeds that of lions, why?
Because the number of spotted hyenas is larger, some even around 50 or 90 heads, the greater the number of causes that need to be commanded and coordinated, the stronger the group's combat capability, unless the combat effectiveness is too poor.
Obviously, it is not a problem for 1 spotted hyena to suppress 2 Tibetan mastiffs, coupled with climate and other factors, the ratio of 1:3 is not excessive, as long as the number of spotted hyenas exceeds 30, they can single-handedly pick up 100 Tibetan mastiffs, and the flexibility of spotted hyenas is strong, in hot weather, even if it consumes 100 Tibetan mastiffs.
In fact, the prestige of the Tibetan mastiff is hyped out, before 2000, a group of businessmen partnered to "fry" the Tibetan mastiff, in fact, in the local area, relatives and friends of the neighborhood of the small Tibetan mastiff can be sent for free, even if the money is not much, dozens of yuan meaning, just like the countryside before, three catties of sugar for a puppy, the little Tibetan mastiff was raised for the Tibetan people to take care of the home.
As a result, businessmen hyped the Tibetan mastiff to more than 10 million yuan, such as calling the Tibetan mastiff an "Oriental Divine Dog", etc., plus TV programs and ** reports, so there is such a trend.
The combat effectiveness of the Tibetan mastiff is not high in the dog world, but because of the low temperature environment of the plateau, few dogs can adapt, and the Tibetans need to raise a kind of dog to watch the home and nursery, so they choose to raise the Tibetan mastiff.
100 Tibetan mastiffs parachuted into the African savannah, will be used as prey for lions and spotted hyenas, even if the Tibetan mastiff is willing to eat carrion, their stomach acid is not strong enough, let alone prevent the outbreak of microorganisms and biotoxins in the carrion, so in general, 100 Tibetan mastiffs will soon be wiped out in the African savannah.
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