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Tiger Predators
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
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
Geez that's a lot.
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.
There's also a fuckton of deer and they're dumb as fuck.
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.
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 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.