Druids (and everyone else) wildshaped into a tiger...

[domino]

They're slated to show up on Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica when the Cylons create a servitor race of attorneys who grow out of their control, and need Captain Obama's know-how to defeat them.

That's ADAMA. Obama is the Democratic golden boy in the US Senate. There's a slight difference.

 

[domino]

they must not have watch Lion vs Tiger on discovery channel.

The Lion kicked the Tigers booty.

That was such a flawed show. The Tiger would slaughter the Lion. They did it wrong.

 

[Pielorinho]

That was such a flawed show. The Tiger would slaughter the Lion. They did it wrong.

I didn't see this, but I gotta wonder: where are they filming the show, that staging animal fights for profit is legal?

That said, I suspect that lions, being social animals, might be more accustomed to dominance-fighting; tigers, not being social animals, might not see the advantage in getting in a fight, and might back off pretty easily.

It's for this reason that rabbit rescuers tell stories of rabbits totally dominating households of cats. Domestic cats are social animals, but not to the degree that rabbits are: rabbits spend much of their existence challenging and reinforcing social hierarchies. What seems like normal dominance play to a rabbit seems like total spazzy jerkishness to a cat, and the cat's going to think, "What the heck is wrong with him?" and run away.

The rabbit will think, "Oh yeah. Who da man?"

Daniel

 

[shilsen]

Sounds like a robot attorney.

Daniel

I've actually seen both tigons and litigons, and they're not particularly unusual in appearance. They look mostly like tigers with faded stripes.

 

[domino]

I didn't see this, but I gotta wonder: where are they filming the show, that staging animal fights for profit is legal?

They don't use real animals. What they do is look at different aspects of the animals, make robotic models with steel heads, jaws, and such, and use those to check out other aspects, and then make a judgement. Hence, flawed, because they only look at a few aspects.

 

[Klaus]

The CGI fights in the end are badly staged. For instance, why would a tiger charge a bear head-on (as it did in the tiger vs. brown bear simulation)? It is a predatory, stalking animal. It will attack from ambush or not attack at all (in India, it is common practice in tiger-inhabited woods to wear a mask on the back of one's head, so the tigers never know when you got your back turned to them and do not attack).

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

It's for this reason that rabbit rescuers tell stories of rabbits totally dominating households of cats. Domestic cats are social animals, but not to the degree that rabbits are: rabbits spend much of their existence challenging and reinforcing social hierarchies. What seems like normal dominance play to a rabbit seems like total spazzy jerkishness to a cat, and the cat's going to think, "What the heck is wrong with him?" and run away.

The rabbit will think, "Oh yeah. Who da man?"

Yup. The natural world is a tough place. Adult animal that have the skills to survive are like Dire Animals when compared to most domestics.

My wife saw a housecat attempt a stalk and pounce on a rabbit. A single well-placed kick square in the chest sent the cat flying four feet. She swears the rabbit never bothered to stop chewing on the grass during the entire episode.

 

[domino]

(in India, it is common practice in tiger-inhabited woods to wear a mask on the back of one's head, so the tigers never know when you got your back turned to them and do not attack).

Of course, I often wonder if that really works. After all, let's say it doesn't work. It's not like someone's going to trust in their mask/hat, get mauled to death, and then tell people that the mask thing doesn't work after all.

 

[Pielorinho]

Yup. The natural world is a tough place. Adult animal that have the skills to survive are like Dire Animals when compared to most domestics.

While this is undoubtedly true (as demonstrated by your anecdote), I was actually talking about how folks with pet rabbits--the domesticated kind--dominate households of cats.

Daniel

 

[Felix]

That's ADAMA. Obama is the Democratic golden boy in the US Senate. There's a slight difference.

That difference will be reconciled in the third season. They're actually the same person; it's sota like VGER and Voyager from Start Trek: The Movie.