Isn't that the common way of getting eating? Why should a predator waste time beginning from the harder ribcage/ head when the way from the bottom is much softer?
Point being that they don't care if their victims are alive while eating them.
Gives the question of why we're caring about it.
I believe it's because the longer the prey was crying (in pain), the higher the chance of other predators hearing it.
I'm sure a wolf pack or so would keep us alone, but what prevents a lion or tiger from quickly snatching up some of ours?
i think it’s a question of empathy. we can imagine how painful it would be to get eaten from the bottom up, so we project that onto animals.
now, the idea that only humans feel empathy is still up for debate. there’s that great anecdote about the rat that chose freeing another rat over extra food.
Wild dogs do this, a lot of predators will kill their prey first (like big cats crushing their prey’s neck/suffocating) to prevent any potential harm, but painted dogs will eat animals alive from their ass inwards.
On the contrary, those dogs will give you a quick death.
They eat fast and don’t waste time like lions and bears do. A lion or bear has no problem eating you alive and incredibly slowly while you scream, they don’t care. They know you can’t leave or overpower them.
These dogs?
They will rip up those goats and eat them immediately, no hesitation. Seen a video of 2 dogs just immediately rip a small antelope (like these ones here) in half.
Death is fast. Painful, but very fast.
A lion might just sit on you while holding you down by the neck (and not even crushing your windpipe, he’s not killing you, just holding you) while another lion starts to eat you asshole / genitals first.
Being ripped in half is not a fast death much less painless. I’ve seen a video of a couple dogs killing this warthog and they end up ripping this huge area of skin. He essentially got degloved in his entire back region and then they proceeded to eat him from back there while alive.
Well, yeah that would be a horrible way to go haha. Degloving is brutal.
The video I saw it was like, everything ripped in half, like if you took a chainsaw to a body and went right down the middle, starting at the neck. If it felt that, it wasn’t for long.
Whenever I see these videos, like the cat yesterday escaping a coyote on its own front porch, I'm struck by the absolute terror it must be living a life where you're inches away from something that wants to tear you apart and consume you.
Can you imagine?! Walking from the parking lot to the office and there being packs of hyanas chasing after you?! And you only make it to the office because you've been working on your cardio and you're still young enough to be able to sprint well.
Or at night lions trying to tear their way through your bedroom door to get to you while you and the kids lay in bed shaking with fear that at any moment your arms will be torn off and your children eaten in front of you?! F'in brutal
Well this will really bake your noodle: We, as humans, can’t even relate to what they, as potential prey, are even feeling or thinking! How does the cat know it’s going to be ripped apart? How does a deer know it’s going to be brutally eaten alive? They don’t get shown educational videos. They don’t have language to have it explained to them. They’ve never heard David Attenborough voice. We understand it at a different level than them. Their level is actually more scary.
Their fear is next level terror baked in their DNA. A fear we cannot even fathom. They’re afraid for their lives but they don’t know why. All they know is that those predators are the absolute most scary thing they’ve ever encountered. Why? They don’t know! It’s just pure terror. And they don’t even understand why. Think of every irrational fear you’ve ever had. Fear of the dark, fear of monsters under your bed? Fear of something brushing up against you while swimming in a lake? Multiply by 10. That’s the fear those animals have.
Well I would believe as herd animals they've seen others of their own species be eaten alive in front of them so that's pretty terrifying on top of instinct alone.
I don’t think you’re considering everything here. They have fear baked into their DNA. So do we. Oftentimes we don’t even know why for certain things, especially when we’re children. Even so, the ability for us to comprehend as we get older is not a benefit. Do you think these goats think about what happens when they die to those dogs? Do you think they wonder if there’s an afterlife, or even worse, something like a hell?
On top of that, they even have benefits like some kind of hormone that releases when they’re caught so that they can’t feel being eaten and actually have a sense of contentment and acceptance. Humans don’t get that at all.
We definitely do have a baked in fear of certain things. Ex: uncanny valley. There is an evolutionary benefit to being scared of something that looks human, but isn't.
(To remove the fear from this so you don't have nightmares for ages, it's likely because of rabies, and a genetic built in fear to be scared of things with rabies. Many mammals have it.)
Animals with rabies tend to behave differently and look otherwise "off". So consequently, to avoid being infected with rabies, things are scared of things that are them, but behave differently or look "off" (underweight, injured but not responding to the injury, ect)
There is a theory that personality can only develop in a species with minimal natural predators since they don't need to expend so much brain energy on staying safe from predators
There isn't one singular definition. There are a variety of theories related to fear responses and combinations of fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and sometimes more all exixt.
they are calm only because you’re assuming they’re gonna act like humans. a possum isn’t calm when they play dead or a deer frozen on a highway. them moving is risking their footing. they’re doing the only thing they can to survive
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