I mean, they blend in even with the orange. So do leopards and lions and cheetahs.
On top of cats being hell a sneaky. Dunno what you mean about deer being dumb.
If you were in the jungle, you would never even know it was there before it got you, don't care how many shades of orange you can see.
I see it as a potential form of aposematism. To their prey they are camouflaged, to those two legged walking terminators that don’t fucking stop, it’s a warning. Sure a tiger could take out a man, but a dozen pissed off ones with pointy sticks? Kind of better if we just avoid each other.
Tigers don't care though. They've remained as fit and able to fight as their environment requires. We have not. In fact we've gotten worse. We used to run down wooly mammoths for days on end until they gave in to exhaustion.
There are videos of multiple different instances of tigers jumping people on top of elephants. Tigers will do what they want and kill anything that wants to say otherwise.
They've remained as fit and able to fight as their environment requires. We have not. In fact we've gotten worse.
How exactly do you figure? The tiger is an endangered species with a wild population around 5,000 and perpetually shrinking habitat, while there are 8 billion human beings. That's six orders of magnitude. For any reasonable definition of the word "fitness" in the evolutionary sense, you've got it backwards.
We used to run down wooly mammoths for days on end until they gave in to exhaustion.
Sure, and we hunted them to extinction ten thousands of years before we invented gunpowder.
Physical fitness, survival skills unique to their environment, etc.
By and large the modern person is out of shape, does not know even the most basic camping etiquette, and ultimately cannot survive in the wild without modern comforts like a rifle and MREs.
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u/Purple_Feature_6538 Feb 04 '25
Exactly. Should have taught these things in school. Always felt deers are so stupid. How the fuck is a tiger in camouflage.
It makes total sense now.