A comparative study of bite force adjusted for body size ranked it as the top felid, alongside the clouded leopard and ahead of the lion and tiger.

On the National Geographic Channel television program, " Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr ", Dr. Brady Barr measured the bite force of an adult female hippo at 8100 N ( 1821 lbf ); Barr also attempted to measure the bite pressure of an adult male hippo, but had to abandon the attempt due to the male's aggressiveness.

These jaws can bite down with immense force, by far the strongest bite of any animal.

" The rotation of the drum can drag either one or both of the shoes into the friction surface, causing the brakes to bite harder, which increases the force holding them together.

However, pit bull-type dogs exhibit " bite, hold, and shake " behavior, which is seen in all breeds of dogs, and at times refuse to release when biting ; methods to force pit bull-type dogs to release their grip include breaking an ammonia ampule and holding it up to the dog's nose, or using a " break stick " to lever the dog's jaws open if it bites a person or animal.

Some bruxism activity is rhythmic with bite force pulses of tenths of a second ( like chewing ), and some have longer bite force pulses of 1 to 30 seconds ( clenching ).

Normally when the mouth is closed, the upper and lower front teeth overlap: The NTI prevents this overlap and translates the bite force from attempts to close the jaw normally into a forward twisting of the lower front teeth.

The volume of the biofeedback tone and the bite force required to trigger the device are adjustable.

The NTI dental guard is technically also a biofeedback device ( translating physical bite force into an uncomfortable feeling in the front teeth ), so it is mentioned here as well as above in the section on dental guards and splints.

The resultant bite forces calculated for Stegosaurus were 140. 1 N ( Newton ), 183. 7 N, and 275 N ( for anterior, middle and posterior teeth, respectively ), which means that its bite force was less than half that of a Labrador retriever.

Therefore, natural selection seems to lead to the evolution of an effective crocodilian snout by creating a mechanical compromise between bite force and hydrodynamic efficiency.

The jaws, thought to have had a comparatively weak bite force, would have been useful for eating prey alive but not as useful for quick, forceful dispatch of the prey ( since modern animals that do this have unique specializations that dromaeosaurs lacked ).

This study concluded that Deinonychus likely had a maximum bite force only 15 % that of the modern American Alligator.

A 2010 study by Paul Gignac and colleagues attempted to estimate the bite force based directly on newly discovered Deinonychus tooth puncture marks in the bones of a Tenontosaurus.

Using the tooth marks, Gignac's team were able to determine that the bite force of Deinonychus was significantly higher than earlier studies had estimated by biomechanical studies alone.

They found the bite force of Deinonychus to be between 4, 100 and 8, 200 newtons, greater than living carnivorous mammals including the hyena, and equivalent to a similarly sized alligator.

Instead, they probably used their high bite force in defense or prey capture, rather than feeding.

`` get a bite, spit on it '' was a proverb.

He rammed his mind into focus and said to the two ladies who lay pinkly nude beside him in the desert, `` That was a good bite.

In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.

In one account, she put an end to her life, as it was believed, by the bite of a snake ( an asp ) conveyed to her in a basket of figs.

The defense's expert testified that the mark in question was not an adult bite mark, while experts put on by the State concluded that there was no bite mark at all.

Upon further examination, it was concluded that if the marks were bite marks, they did not match the teeth of any of the three convicted.

If Pierre takes a second bite, it is not caused by his pleasure from the first ; If Pierre says, " That was good, so I will take another bite ", his speech act is not caused by the preceding pleasure.

When Heracles took the cattle of Geryon, he shot Hera in the right breast with a triple-barbed arrow: the wound was incurable and left her in constant pain, as Dione tells Aphrodite in the Iliad, Book V. Afterwards, Hera sent a gadfly to bite the cattle, irritate them and scatter them.

After tests proved that the bite marks were his, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges, while the sodomy charge was dropped.

Techniques developed in engineering have been used to analyse how ancient organisms might have worked, for example how fast Tyrannosaurus could move and how powerful its bite was.

A small study found that finding a bite to the side of the tongue was very helpful when present: while only a quarter of those with seizures had such a bite ( sensitivity of 24 %), the finding was very specific for seizures, with only 1 % due to other causes ( specificity of 99 %).

In a similar incident in 1998, a girl's talking Po doll was thought to be saying " faggot faggot, faggot faggot, faggot faggot, bite my butt ", as well as " fatty, fatty.

Neocles died when he was young by the bite of a horse, and Diocles was adopted by his grandfather, Lysander.

A UK newspaper, The Independent reported that on 6 April 2010 a 59-year-old man from rural Victoria state was mauled by a wombat ( thought to have been angered by mange ) causing a number of cuts and bite marks requiring hospital treatment.

He found the Burchell's zebra easy to break, and considered it ideal for domestication, as it was immune to the bite of the tsetse fly.

It was said that Isis tricked Ra ( i. e. Amun-Ra / Atum-Ra ) into telling her his " secret name ," by causing a snake to bite him, for which only Isis had the cure.

They are calmer and less likely to bite ; they can tolerate greater crowding ; they breed earlier and produce more offspring ; and their brains, livers, kidneys, adrenal glands, and hearts are smaller ( Barnett 2002 ).

In the off-season, Rocky Neck is popular with locals for hikes through the woods ( the wooded areas of Rocky Neck feature some great hiking trails, but make sure to avoid them in the summer heat when the deer flies, whose bite is nasty, make hiking less than a pleasure ).

Despite public warnings from two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. claiming that if a driver does not respect the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the place " will bite you-hard " Montoya shrugged off the advice claiming that all four corners were exactly the same and that the track required less attention than the road courses in the CART series and in European racing.

An adult human can die from a single bite in less than 15 minutes, making the king cobra one of the most feared and deadly snakes in the world.

An alternative method is to bite the end off and then tear the fruit in half length ways, exposing a larger surface with less curvature and using one's teeth to scrape the pulp out closer to the skin.

Breed-specific bite rates are not known, and less responsible owners being drawn to certain breeds may be a factor.

These enzymes can cause localized tissue necrosis ( which may be similar to that caused by a recluse bite ), though the symptoms are less severe and do not result in the systemic effects occasionally seen with recluse envenomations.

Typically, starch produces a shorter ( cleaner bite, less chewy ) texture than gelatin.

However, the gray rat snake is less likely to bite than other members of its species, and wounds from a bite rarely require more than a bandage.

Although bites from Sistrurus species are regarded as less dangerous to humans than those from Crotalus rattlesnakes, primarily due to their lower venom yield, every venomous snake bite should be considered serious and prompt medical treatment should always be sought.

estimated that the bite force of Giganotosaurus was three times less than that of Tyrannosaurus and that the lower jaws were optimised for inflicting slicing wounds ; the point of the mandibula was reinforced to this purpose with a " chin " and broadened to handle smaller prey.

Even the most extreme fell runners will tend to ” bite ” at a record that stands 24 h or less — often a " round " that ends at the start line.

While it is almost unheard of for a Brachypelma to bite a human, they are quick to kick urticating hairs in self-defense, though their hairs are reportedly less irritating than those of other species, especially the goliath birdeater

The Tatler Schools Guide used to cite Bedales as " a bohemian idyll with bite ", and The Good Schools Guide states that, although the school is " less distinctive than in the past ", it is " still good for ' individuals ', articulate nonconformists, and people who admire such qualities ".

He received his first cobra bite less than a year after he started his immunization program.

Feverstone is fond of muffins, which he can devour in one bite, although there is some controversy among Lewis scholars about whether these are traditional English muffins or, less likely, American muffins.

Though its venom is capable of causing significant morbidity, a bite from it is not generally fatal and less venomous than other deadly Australian snakes.

Domestic rats differ from wild rats in many ways: They are calmer and less likely to bite, they can tolerate greater crowding, they breed earlier and produce more offspring, and their brains, livers, kidneys, adrenal glands, and hearts are smaller.