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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 2903006" data-attributes="member: 41584">The 'punch' from a cat is only to knock it's prey down.  It then bites the throat, attempting to suffocate or snap the neck of it's prey, using it's claws mainly to hang on tight and prevent it from getting up / getting away.I've raised big cats for zoos and animal parks (jaguars, tigers and lions primarily), been mauled by big cats (a leopard and a mountain lion) and even been thrown across a room by a jaguars 'playful swat' (I weighed 200 lbs at the time.  It wasn't fully grown...).  A 25 lb. tiger kit can generate more forward force than most adult humans.  (Hint, if someone hands you a leash and says to 'take him for a walk,' what they really mean is 'pick him up and carry him back when he's finally tired of dragging you wherever the heck he wants to go...')And that's just a cat.  Bears are stronger and skeer me.  If a cat (or bear) is going for a stranglehold and can't get a good grip, as it wouldn't be able to do on someone wearing a helmet or gorget, it will settle for twisting the head.Medieval armor has absolutely no protective value against something twisting your head...  (Weird car-proof exosuits, on the other hand, sure, whatever.  Good luck enjoying your next nature walk wearing a 250 lbs. of wannabe-battlemech.)People regularly underestimate the strength of animals (and much more regularly overestimate their own durability).  A *swan* can snap a grown man's back with a single blow from it's soft, light and fragile hollow-boned wing.  That cute little 45 lb. chimp that clung to Matthew Broderick in Project X was seven times stronger than him and could have killed him with a single blow to the head *by accident.*When faced with an animal, your advantage is your brain.  Despite being vastly stronger, usually significantly faster, and covered with protective hide and decorated with pointy killing implements, most animals don't *want* to fight a person, don't *want* to get hurt (since they live in a world with no doctors, where an injured hunter is a dead hunter) and are often pretty easy to outwit.Unless it's a shark, and you're in the water.  Then you're pretty much chum...</blockquote>

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