Probably other tigers tbh
Tiger Predators
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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psmgx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mango@lemmy.world 5 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?”.
abracaDavid@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Makes sense to me. Tigers are ambush hunters and they love to attack from behind.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Bigger, hornier tigers.
LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tigers with horns 😨😨 ?
kippinitreal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
umm… hornier?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wait until you learn about what dolphins sometimes do to their prey
TOModera@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Probably humans, given they went from 100k to 5.6k in population in 100 years and are still in decline.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s not long enough to evolve something like this, though.
TOModera@lemmy.world 5 months 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@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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?
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
They are actually doing a bit better than we thought
TOModera@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sweet, that’s good to know. WWF needs to update their website. Too many chairs to the face I think.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months 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.
Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
To be fair, they can be fooled the same way.
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 months ago
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.
_bcron@midwest.social 5 months ago
I’ve seen people get out of vehicles to try to take selfies with grizzly bear cubs. But yeah you get slapped once by either and you’re pretty much dead if you aren’t within 10 minutes to a hospital.
AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I learned this from Calvin & Hobbes
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That makes sense. Tigers are just big cats - they’re all kinda jerks to each other (let alone other animals), but I suppose that comes with being an apex predator.
barsoap@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Tigers are territorial and solitary but quite social, they don’t usually get into fights when they meet, that only happens when they have an actual territorial conflict because there’s too many tigers on too little land. They’re perfectly fine with others visiting their prowling grounds, they might even hunt together, just don’t overstay your welcome. Actually not that terribly different from how humans treat their houses.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
Tessellecta@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Just like house cats
pinkystew@reddthat.com 5 months ago
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.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.”
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
One way of thinking of it could be that since all of our intention and decision making originates in such a process, the line between them isn’t that clear.
homura1650@lemmy.world 5 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.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yes, they did though
pinkystew@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Every evolutionary trait is coincidence. If it was adaptation we’d be able to regrow vital organs.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The spots might be helpful for baby tigers?
BLAMM@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tigers are only CR4. There’s lots of stuff more dangerous that that.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, you think you’re hot shit as a tiger and then here comes a Hellwasp…
jaybone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or feline AIDS. Can’t fool that with fake eyes.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
Towwebbed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well that begs the question what the hell drove the short face bear to extinction? The long face bear?
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same thing that killed the humans, climate change.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Why the long face ?
kandoh@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Wild tigers, as apex predators, have few natural threats. Their primary competitors include Asiatic wild dogs (dholes), which can harass tigers in packs.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
my new head canon is that tigers are so fed up with asiatic wild dogs that they started calling them d holes
Klear@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve heard of A-holes and B-holes, but the existence of D-holes and the implied C-holes is news to me.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Who knew wild dogs could be such dholes
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Joe Exotic?
luciole@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Other tigers?
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Well, they are kind of solitary animals. No one will warn them about something big getting close from behind.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 5 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.
mihor@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Epsteins?
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So, alligators?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’ve never seen a mockingbird peck at a cat’s butt all afternoon
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Hippos
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
This is the correct answer. Why are they so violent?
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 5 months ago
They’ve been bullied and fat-shamed their whole lives and they’ve had enough.
boydster@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
To make sure the tigers don’t start getting any ideas
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Herbivores have nothing to lose when hands need to be thrown.
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think Africa is a rough biospehere to live in so everything’s gotta be super tough, the Amazon is like that too
geogle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not even on the same continent. Hippos are in Africa and Tigers are in Asia. Pretty big desert in between
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Indian ocean isn’t a desert
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Look, I’m trying to lose the COVID weight, okay? Insults are unnecessary!
4oreman@lemy.lol 5 months ago
no ; it’s humans.