On Dehradun-Rishikesh Highway....
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September 24, 2022
"[T]he incident once again highlighted the increasing man-animal conflict in India."
Economic Times reports on this viral video:
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I had a dog that would do that.
Not shocking that it happened, but shocking that the cat would do on the side of busy highway.
I've - got - a - tiger by the tail it's plain to see...
Typical there are too many people on the planet story. It’s totally bogus.
I think it's a leopard.
Wife: Rajesh, did you bring home some butter like I asked you?
Rajesh: I was on my way to the store on my bike, when a tiger (leopard) leaped out of jungle and attacked me. It knocked my off my bike. I pedaled as fast as I could in the other direction. I was almost killed and eaten. It was terrifying. I thought I was going to die and would never see you or the children again.
Wife: So you're saying you don't have any butter.
Why was the camera following the bicyclist before the incident?
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I think it's a leopard.
Not big enough for a tiger but it's big enough to match a north American cougar. I've seen people attacked and killed by cougars.
Somebody just happens to be following the guy on their camera phone?
Abort the human, spare the pussy her burden.
I think the music should have been a bit more dramatic.
How are these videos made at "just the right moment?" I smell a set-up of sorts.
Someone in the Twitter comments tracked the video back to a tweet in June.
It was a leopard. It was in Kaziranga, Assam, where there is a nature preserve. There is a discussion in the tweet I linked over whether the leopard is trying to attack or to cross the road. Based mostly on my observations of how (much smaller) cats attack, I think it was trying to run across the road and was surprised by the cyclist, saving it from being hit by the car.
“I think it’s a leopard.” Probably deaf and a Love Bites fan. So that poor bicyclist is just another victim of the British Invasion.
'Not big enough for a tiger but it's big enough to match a north American cougar. I've seen people attacked and killed by cougars.'
Lots of North American cougars in my neighborhood.
But they mostly drive Range Rovers and Escalades : )
a large feline, the size of a small feline
I had a leopard attack me at the San Diego zoo. It was at the very top of a terraced enclosure, about 40 yards out and up, it was growling. I was 13 at the time, so snarled back. Within two or three leaps, seeming instant, it was down and leapt at the fence, would have absolutely torn me apart if that fence wasn't there. It wasn't in any mood to put up with the silliness of a young teenage boy that day.
It gave me a good helping of fear for large cats I've not forgotten since.
My cat likes to do that to me at 3AM.
There’s something too providential about the camera work.
Manimal, faby, latinx, and other mutant entities were first viable on the island of doctor Diverseau.
Gerda Sprinchorn said...
Why was the camera following the bicyclist before the incident?
India has thousands of remote traffic cams monitoring in real time. Big Brothers and big cats are everywhere.
This article has good pictures of all the big cats in India.
Leaning towards leopard myself.
Article says clouded leopard only hunts at night.
On the other hand this attack looked defensive in nature. A lot of animals seem to be fixated on spinning wheels.
I wonder what percentage of the usage of the word "increasing" in news articles actually can be substantiated by credible evidence of an increase.
The video was recorded using a surveillance camera mounted on a pole in a national park quite a few years ago.
When you have 1.4 billion people in a country 1/3 the size of the US. It’s hard to worry too much about the animals.
The video was recorded using a surveillance camera mounted on a pole in a national park quite a few years ago.
The video operator seemed to know to focus on that bicycle.......uncanny.
Paddy O: “ I had a leopard attack me at the San Diego zoo. It was at the very top of a terraced enclosure, about 40 yards out and up, it was growling. I was 13 at the time, so snarled back. Within two or three leaps, seeming instant, it was down and leapt at the fence, would have absolutely torn me apart if that fence wasn't there.”
My daughter and I had the same experience at the San Diego zoo, except we were just quietly standing there. Quite the thing watching a murder-bent mountain lion hurl itself at the steel mesh enclosure only a few feet away.
"The video operator seemed to know to focus on that bicycle.......uncanny."
The video camera is using it's hyperfocal distance to keep everything in acceptable focus. (Point and shoot cameras work the same way.) The road's paint stripes are in acceptable focus near and far.
Wikipedia: "In optics and photography, hyperfocal distance is a distance beyond which all objects can be brought into an "acceptable" focus. As the hyperfocal distance is the focus distance giving the maximum depth of field, it is the most desirable distance to set the focus of a fixed-focus camera."
You're more likely to run into monkeys on your bicycle in India.
They're everywhere, running free.
"The video operator seemed to know to focus on that bicycle.......uncanny."
More uncanny is that the camera pans and zooms to keep the bicycle in the center of the frame. Its not just a focus thing. Perhaps it was edited later to keep the bicycle center-frame, or perhaps it was staged somehow.
Most of the panthers that are killed on the highways in Florida seem to be trying to pounce on cars.
Turned around and went home for clean underwear.
Paddy O said...
I had a leopard attack me at the San Diego zoo.
Several aholes throwing rocks at tigers in San Francisco Zoo. One guy dead, two scarred for life.
tiger
To those who find the focus on the rider uncanny, did you note that the complete video at the link shows two different riders being attacked in the same way at the same place at different times. I highly doubt that they were attacks number 1 and 2 of 2.
---More uncanny is that the camera pans and zooms to keep the bicycle in the center of the frame. Its not just a focus thing. Perhaps it was edited later to keep the bicycle center-frame, or perhaps it was staged somehow.
Zooms in just before the attack. Does it again with the second example. Had to be staged.
"To those who find the ... camera pan and zoom to keep the bicycle in the center of the frame uncanny, ... did you note that the complete video at the link shows two different riders being attacked in the same way at the same place at different times. I highly doubt that they were attacks number 1 and 2 of 2."
I should have known better than to use a common meaning for the word focus where it could be interpreted as solely meaning a specific technical attribute.
The spot on the road edge where the animal leaps out is consistent. If someone is operating the camera live, where else would one think they would have centered? Likewise if the video is being cropped after the fact from a wide-shot to bring attention to the action.
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