And, on top of that, cats are incredibly athletic.
A while back I read an anecdote about a small boat of poachers who went into a wildlife preserve (I think in Bangladesh) at night with no lights to avoid detection.
It was a small tributary, and as they slowly proceeded in the dark, they heard a soft splash. When they turned on a spotlight, they saw a tiger dragging a guy up the riverbank by his head.
Apparently, there were high banks on both sides of the stream, and the tiger had leaped over the boat, snatched one of the poachers out of the boat by his head in mid-air, and landed on the other side.
The tiger did not even so much as rock the little boat. Until they were out of there, they all stood back to back with guns at the ready.
After watching that video of the woman in China who got out of her car and was nailed by the tiger, I don’t doubt the veracity of that story I heard for a single second. It looked like it grabbed that woman by her lower back with its teeth on each side of her spine and made off with her with seemingly no effort at all.
And then there is this famous clip:
