So, alligators?
Tigers are only CR4. There’s lots of stuff more dangerous that that.
Yeah, you think you’re hot shit as a tiger and then here comes a Hellwasp…
Or feline AIDS. Can’t fool that with fake eyes.
If you can’t get it in because you think the back is the front then maybe you can
i always thought it was fucked up that feline aids was CR10, but when you explain it like that it really makes sense.
Probably humans, given they went from 100k to 5.6k in population in 100 years and are still in decline.
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.
That’s not long enough to evolve something like this, though.
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?
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.
Considering evolutionary time scales, this trait may have been a response to something large and dangerous that’s extinct now.
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.
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.
They are actually doing a bit better than we thought
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/23/1113186725/tigers-population-numbers-endangered-species
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 tigers are on the,of all remaining wild tigers.
I didn’t know this was something I needed. Stolen!
Joe Exotic?
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.
Well that begs the question what the hell drove the short face bear to extinction? The long face bear?
Same thing that killed the humans, climate change.
Why the long face ?
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.
Just like house cats
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.
Probably other tigers tbh
Yeah, predators get excited when you turn around and start moving away. These eyes are just asking “what are you doing step bro?”.
Makes sense to me. Tigers are ambush hunters and they love to attack from behind.
You’ve never seen a mockingbird peck at a cat’s butt all afternoon
Epsteins?
Other tigers?
Bigger, hornier tigers.
umm… hornier?
Wait until you learn about what dolphins sometimes do to their prey
Something respectful &/or cute I am sure
They boop them with their snoot.
Tigers with horns 😨😨 ?
Wild tigers, as apex predators, have few natural threats. Their primary competitors include Asiatic wild dogs (dholes), which can harass tigers in packs.
Who knew wild dogs could be such dholes
my new head canon is that tigers are so fed up with asiatic wild dogs that they started calling them d holes
I’ve heard of A-holes and B-holes, but the existence of D-holes and the implied C-holes is news to me.
Make sure you get your a-hole and m-holes checked regularly
Well, they are kind of solitary animals. No one will warn them about something big getting close from behind.
To be fair, they can be fooled the same way.
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.
I’ve seen people get out of vehicles to try to take selfies with grizzly bear cubs. I could kinda see black bears but like wtf. But yeah you get slapped once by either and you’re pretty much dead if you aren’t within 10 minutes to a hospital.
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.
I’ve read somewhere that tigers usually aren’t trying to kill people, humans are not their natural prey and they normally ignore them. The ones that do kill people seem to have a bad experience with humans, like being shot at. Fuck humans.
There’s also a fuckton of deer and they’re dumb as fuck.
I learned this from Calvin & Hobbes
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.
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.
