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?
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months agoThat’s not long enough to evolve something like this, though.
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Damage@feddit.it 2 months 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.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Considering evolutionary time scales, this trait may have been a response to something large and dangerous that’s extinct now.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Eating a tiger liver would probably kill you with Vitamin A poisoning, particularly painful.
Easy to just avoid eating entirely, even if the rest of it is safe enough.
TOModera@lemmy.world 2 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.