Tibetan Mastiff (Definite Introduction)
Tibetan Mastiff is well known for its bravery and sincerity. In the eyes of many people, Tibetan mastiffs are cruel. They have strong fighting power and sincere character. It is true that the Tibetan Mastiff has very strong combat effectiveness, but this is only for the dog itself. We have all heard that the Tibetan Mastiff can defeat a tiger, or that a Tibetan Mastiff can defeat several wolves at the same time. In fact, this has been given a certain legendary color. We should treat the Tibetan Mastiff correctly. Even if we like it, we should not overly legend it.
"People's Daily" once published a true news about a leopard fighting with eight Tibetan mastiff dogs in a Tibetan area. Three Tibetan dogs ended up fighting. The mastiffs were sacrificed and five were wounded, but the leopards were wounded and retreated. From this we can see that no matter how powerful the Tibetan Mastiff is, it is ultimately a type of dog, and there is a certain difference between it and those ferocious beasts that have been fighting and killing each other for many years. Naturally, those Tibetan Mastiffs crawling out of snow pits to catch snow leopards, and the Tibetan Mastiffs eating wild animals in the wilderness are like going to a restaurant together. They are all unrealistic words, and at best they can be treated as after-dinner topics. However, many people are still willing to believe in this, probably because of the reverence that some people have for Tibetan Mastiffs.
Many people think that the Tibetan Mastiff’s job is to fight with local wolves and snow leopards. In fact, fighting is only occasional. Most of the time, they are in The guards controlling the flocks of sheep or yaks, after all, the desert is bitter and cold, and the number of ferocious beasts is very small. Even if you don’t even look for it, you may not be able to find it, so how can you kill it by killing it? And the Tibetan Mastiff is not "the only dog that is not afraid of wild beasts" at all. Many hounds and shepherd dogs in the world are brave enough to fight wild beasts, such as the Dogo, which is originally designed to hunt wild boars and pumas; the Rhodesian Ridgeback in South Africa Dogs are used by people to help hunt lions; in Russia, when people hunt the largest and most prestigious cat, the Siberian tiger, they also need hounds to help.
There is a saying that two mastiffs are the enemy of one tiger. This is not very reliable. Perhaps many people have no idea what tigers are and how powerful they are in combat. Needless to say, the fighting ability of tigers that have lived in the wilderness for a long time, and they also have rich hunting experience, which is not comparable to Tibetan mastiffs, and their powerful tiger tails and tiger claws are also Having strong bite force is an advantageous weapon for them. Tibetan Mastiffs have powerful teeth, has a strong character, which is true compared to other canine animals, but other beasts such as wolves, leopards, tigers, lions, and bears also have them, and may be more than Tibetan mastiffs. Tibetan Mastiffs may be not afraid of wild animals as people say, but in fact they may not be as powerful in combat as we imagine.
Compared with ordinary leopards, Tibetan mastiffs are far less developed than leopards in certain muscle structures, such as forelimbs and neck muscles. Mastiffs don't have any advantages when it comes to hiding in their skulls. Although they are indeed stronger than wolves, they still can't compare with leopards. Judging from the area on the leopard's skull for the attachment of the masseter and temporal muscles, its bite force is much greater than that of the Tibetan Mastiff. The canine teeth of other leopards are much more developed than those of Tibetan mastiffs. The canine teeth of the Tibetan mastiff are not as developed as those of the wolf in terms of ratio. In terms of body weight, the balanced body weight of a male leopard is 70-90 kilograms, and the maximum recorded weight of the Amur leopard is 130 kilograms. As for hunting ability and fighting ability, the two are even more incomparable. I once witnessed a fight between a strong male military dog and a leopard. Before the war, the dog's owner claimed that his dog could easily snap the neck of a gray wolf and contain a leopard with no problem. As soon as the battle started, the leopard disemboweled the leading dog with just one paw. As for the tiger, it is even more impossible to look at them equally.
So we must use a correct view to treat Tibetan Mastiffs. Tibetan Mastiffs are brave and sincere and are indeed loved by many people, but liking them does not necessarily require them to be legendary. , let others have a wrong idea about it.
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