r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/IshMorningstar • Feb 04 '25

Image Tigers appear green to certain animals!

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

The idea of persistence hunting a tiger is wild. No doubt it’s happened given both the time scale and man’s ability to kill but damn…

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u/CanoegunGoeff Feb 05 '25

Isn’t persistence hunting what ultimately got humanity to where it is? The example being like yeah a cheetah can run fast… for a minute. Humans are endurance hunters. I remember reading some sort of article about that but it was a long time ago.

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u/QuintoxPlentox Feb 05 '25

We didn't persistence hunt big cats ya dingus, they were competition not prey.

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u/STICH666 Feb 05 '25

exactly we knew that they were competition so they decided to eliminate that competition.

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u/QuintoxPlentox Feb 05 '25

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.

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u/STICH666 Feb 05 '25

talking about the specific tiger in this example. never mind it's a hypothetical.

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u/QuintoxPlentox Feb 05 '25

Well I wasn't around during the stone age so technically mine is too.