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Tiger Predators (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Probably humans, given they went from 100k to 5.6k in population in 100 years and are still in decline.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's not long enough to evolve something like this, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Even arrows or spears wouldn’t have been long enough to develop such a trait. And with those tools, still I don’t think Tiger would have been a primary target for humans. Seems like for most societies felines and canines were just not things we eat. Though maybe hunted for the pelt? In which case maybe they do eat the meat?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Considering evolutionary time scales, this trait may have been a response to something large and dangerous that’s extinct now.

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