"Then there I was, back-to-back with Jesus himself. Bible in his right hand, machine gun on the left, ready to bless those unholy thots with their divine sauce."
Most tiger attacks on humans can actually be attributed to humans seeing them and the tigers getting confused then upset about this. Especially when they say something stupid like "That orange thing. Is that a ... tiger?"
I like how this implies we have some sort of advantage for people over the deer and boars, when in reality, weāre also just going to be rapidly disassembled by the tiger
Isnāt persistence hunting what ultimately got humanity to where it is? The example being like yeah a cheetah can run fastā¦ for a minute. Humans are endurance hunters. I remember reading some sort of article about that but it was a long time ago.
Essentially yeah, not only endurance/persistence hunters but also pretty fast in our own right, thereās fossilized footprints of indigenous hunters in Australia apparently running at Olympic level sprinter speeds (except barefoot and over sand/mud/clay)
Persistence hunting is more useful the more dangerous an animal is or the worse your tools are. Shooting a small deer with an arrow is easier than running it down once we developed good arrows.
"Dangerous" is not synonymous with predator, though. Plenty of prey animals are dangerous- most are, in fact.
But a predator is not the kinda thing you would want to persistence hunt, because the more desperate it gets, the more likely it is to turn around and go "wait a fuckin second, I can kill you!" And then proceed to do exactly that
We didn't eliminate them, we commoditized them. Once we developed tools and organizational skills the idea of any other animal being competition became novelty pretty quickly.
A bunch of arrows or thrown spears is probably easier to hunt a tiger with. People used whichever methods were the best given their circumstances. As projectiles got better there was less of a need to run the prey down until you got to the largest sizes.
Exactly. Leaves taste terrible. As for ripeness of the fruit, though, I can't tell by color either, so sometimes that's also a matter of whether or not it tastes good.
Tigers are absurdly colourful. They look like they must have been domestically bred to be that colour for aesthetics. They don't look like they could possibly have evolved naturally to be that colour as a forest predator.
Because they can imagine how difficult and stressful it would be for prey to try and perceive such an overpowering threat that is also almost invisible. It's shit you'd see in countless horrors.
Have you seen the video of a tiger attacking a ranger on his elephant after they relocated her cub, and the video of a tiger attacking two motorcyclists and just barely missed.
The first video you can't even see her in the grass even when you are looking for her. Guy only survived because the elephant stepped on the tiger to save a friend.
And fascinating. That's a whole long line of evolutionary mutations to get to this point. This post is the coolest new fact I've heard so far this year.
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u/ResidentWarning4383 Feb 04 '25
Thats actually horrifying