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He films deadly fight between a snake and a wild cat with his 'slap method'

2023-03-16T17:07:30.835Z


A photographer captured the fierce combat in a California forest and the images went viral. Photographer Robert Martinez was in the "Angeles National" forest near San Fernando, California , between the San Gabriel and Pelona mountain ranges. He was looking for nature, images that would amaze him to reflect on his social media accounts. And he found what he wanted. His 2021 video continues to be one of the most viewed on different platforms and social networks about animal behavior. In O


Photographer Robert Martinez was in the

"Angeles National"

forest near San Fernando,

California

, between the San Gabriel and Pelona mountain ranges.

He was looking for nature, images that would amaze him to reflect on his social media accounts.

And he found what he wanted.

His 2021 video continues to be one of the most viewed on different platforms and social networks about

animal behavior.

In October of that year, in that forest, Martínez decided to leave his camera on to record in a wooded area that seemed ideal for the passage of wild animals.

It was in a clearing between the trees, where he observed some small caves in the earth.

And in that place there was a memorable encounter between

a bobcat and a rattlesnake.

The bobcat watches the rattlesnake and prepares to evade an attack.

That typical feline that inhabits southern California knows how to hunt rattlesnakes, but something always plays against him:

they are not immune to snake venom.

How did he do it then?

In the sequence it is seen how the wild cat managed to perfect his combat technique.

As he walks through the woods, a noise catches his attention.

He approaches some bushes and at that moment the rattlesnake is heard, which surprises him.

Suddenly they get into a fight to the death in which he watches as the cat uses its

lethal method on him.

Bobcats are regular inhabitants of the forests and arid preserves of California, Utah, and Arizona.

With amazing skill,

he slaps and slaps the reptile

, while with lightning speed he dodges the incessant attacks that he receives.

Finally, the turning point comes when the cat manages to, in one of those attacks, with the snake already tired from the slaps, sink its claws into the head of its enemy and in less than a fraction of a second it attracts it to her body and

bites her behind the eyes

.

The combat stops and the snake dies.

The ending is very catlike: it takes its dead prey a few meters from the "ring", hides it and

returns to the battle arena to roll around

right there, as if celebrating its victory in situ.

Source: clarin

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