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Tiger Predators (mander.xyz)
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[–] TOModera 47 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] Diplomjodler3 26 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] TOModera 5 points 4 weeks ago

Very good point, I didn't mean to conflate it happened in the last 100 years, more so the data of their deaths that I had access to had that timeliness.

[–] jaybone 1 points 4 weeks 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] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Also statistically (since we're talking evolution) it wouldn't help much against humans, we've got good vision and intellect, the chances to fool us enough times for this adaptation to arise are slim.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Eating a tiger liver would probably kill you with Vitamin A poisoning, a particularly painful affliction.

Easy to just avoid eating entirely, even if the rest of it is safe enough.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TOModera 14 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I didn't know this was something I needed. Stolen!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

i mean i'll concede that it's not entirely ineffective, but i very much question that it would significantly affect their survival.

If a human sees a tiger which they know may well kill another human, they're not going to give a toss about where the tiger is looking, they're going to have 5 friends with them who all carry the best weapons they have available to turn that tiger into a rug.