Hi, Lunch.

I was watching some of those old news reels that used to come before movies in the fifties or something, and there was a video of a black jaguar. He was drowning a crocodile. Then he went on to chase a 300 pound snake into the water, drag it out, kill it, then wandered off with his girlfriend because he was bored or something.
That was the coolest big cat ever.
I later saw a video in which a golden eagle chased away a full grown grizzly bear.

I figured that if they were ever combined into a gryphon it would be the most awesome creature ever. EVER. Like, take on a full grown dragon that's three times its size and walk off victorious awesome.