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Tiger Predators (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Hippos

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is the correct answer. Why are they so violent?

[–] [email protected] 122 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They've been bullied and fat-shamed their whole lives and they've had enough.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Incel hippos are jealous of good looking tigers getting laid

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

To make sure the tigers don't start getting any ideas

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Herbivores have nothing to lose when hands need to be thrown.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I just imagined a hippo with hands. Nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

You're not imagining. They're real.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not even on the same continent. Hippos are in Africa and Tigers are in Asia. Pretty big desert in between

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The Indian ocean isn't a desert

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Got me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Geo, dude...

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Probably other tigers tbh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah, predators get excited when you turn around and start moving away. These eyes are just asking "what are you doing step bro?".

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bigger, hornier tigers.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

Tigers with horns 😨😨 ?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

umm... hornier?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait until you learn about what dolphins sometimes do to their prey

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Something respectful &/or cute I am sure

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

They boop them with their snoot.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (3 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 3 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are actually doing a bit better than we thought

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/23/1113186725/tigers-population-numbers-endangered-species

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sweet, that's good to know. WWF needs to update their website. Too many chairs to the face I think.

https://wwf.ca/species/tigers/#:~:text=Sadly%2C%20tigers%20are%20on%20the,of%20all%20remaining%20wild%20tigers.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (4 children)

To be fair, they can be fooled the same way.

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/05/science/face-masks-fool-the-bengal-tigers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk4.HisX.KgTDxtb_u_Hz&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

in the Ganges Delta in India, where tigers living under protection in a reserve had been killing about 60 people a year.

Geez that's a lot.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean, deer kill about 400 people a year in the US and they aren't even trying. 280 million people live in the Delta alongside a predator that is actually trying to kill them, so it mkaes sense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

There's also a fuckton of deer and they're dumb as fuck.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I learned this from Calvin & Hobbes

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Their predators are other tigers. There are tribes in Asia who wear masks on the backs of their heads with large eyes to deter tiger attacks. Apparently the tiger is very much about stabbing you in the back, and not so big on open confrontation.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tigers are only CR4. There's lots of stuff more dangerous that that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you think you’re hot shit as a tiger and then here comes a Hellwasp…

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or feline AIDS. Can’t fool that with fake eyes.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact the South American short face bear is the only Ice aged giant that is thought not to be driven extinct by humans and fact humans could not hunt it, Tigers would be a pleasant snack for them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well that begs the question what the hell drove the short face bear to extinction? The long face bear?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Same thing that killed the humans, climate change.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

No living thing has a feature "to" do anything. That implies decision making, which is intelligent design.

Tigers have spots on their ears, which can confuse attackers.

Tigers did not develop those spots "to" confuse attackers.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I hear what you're saying, and you're 100% correct, but I think most people will realize it's a figure of speech, and easier to say than "Via the process of gene mutation trial and error over many, many generations of tigers, spots have developed on their ears that look like eyes, resulting in predation from behind being discourged."

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

All models are wrong, but some are useful. Thinking of evolved features as having a purpose is wrong, but it is also incredibly useful.

Why do we have eyes? In some sense, there is no reason, just a sequence of random coincidences, combined with a slightly non-randon bias refered to as "survival of the fittest" (itself an incorrect model).

However, saying that we have eyes to see has incredible explanatory power, which makes it a useful model. Just like Newton's law of Universal gravity. We've known it that is wrong for a century at this point, but most of the time still talk as if it's true, because it is useful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, they did though. That's the purpose of this evolutionary trait. I see what you're getting at, but you seem to be implying this was a concidence

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wild tigers, as apex predators, have few natural threats. Their primary competitors include Asiatic wild dogs (dholes), which can harass tigers in packs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

my new head canon is that tigers are so fed up with asiatic wild dogs that they started calling them d holes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've heard of A-holes and B-holes, but the existence of D-holes and the implied C-holes is news to me.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Joe Exotic?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Other tigers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Well, they are kind of solitary animals. No one will warn them about something big getting close from behind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Do they have them when they are little too? Or maybe it worked out that it was less likely predators would yoink their babies because it seemed like they were always watching. Can't sneak up on someone with eyes on the back of their heads, that never close, even while sleeping.

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