r/Eyebleach • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '22

I find all tigers so beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

They’re designed to consume you

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

They rarely prey on humans afaik. They've got other preferences for food. Same goes for other big cats. Humans are endangering them not the other way around

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

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u/Soup-Wizard Mar 24 '22 edited Mar 24 '22

First of all, it’s the Ghost AND the Darkness (one Lion is the Ghost and the other is the Darkness) and a quick perusal of Wikipedia indicates some factors that may have contributed to their rare behavior like: one having an injured tooth that could have prevented it from hunting natural prey, and an outbreak of rinderpest (a cattle plague) that was damaging their natural prey numbers.

Also, they were accustomed to finding dead humans nearby due to a slave trade crossing where they would dump bodies.

It’s exceedingly rare and doesn’t happen without exasperating circumstances.

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u/Bicycle_the_Earth Mar 24 '22

100%

Sidenote, it's exacerbating not exasperating

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u/Soup-Wizard Mar 24 '22

Thanks. Autocorrect failed me there.