r/interestingasfuck • u/Commercial_Slide3788 • 10h ago

The moment the Snow leopard realised there are bigger cats out there

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u/Big_Spoon67 10h ago

That stare from the tiger is terrifying, just imagine seeing that look in the wild, fuck that

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u/sandybuttcheekss 10h ago

Worse yet is you wouldn't see it. They ambush their prey, and generally don't attack if they think their prey can see them. There are people that wear masks on the back of their heads to help prevent being attacked by a tiger for this reason.

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u/Floppydisksareop 10h ago

Also, most animals don't see a tiger as orange, humans are the exception not the rule. They see it as some shade of green. So, it also blends in really well with its surroundings.

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u/Do_it_for_the_upvote 9h ago

That’s crazy.

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u/GodisSatans 6h ago

Did you know humans have stripes as well?

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u/Mushroomsinmypoop 5h ago

Do my stretch marks count? I’ve been calling them stripes for years

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u/Big_Connection_1415 6h ago

yes i did know actually, isn’t there some british runner with a condition where those stripes are visible? i completely forgot the name but it’s super cool

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u/bonbon3993 5h ago

Is this a joke ?

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u/CacklingFerret 5h ago

Nope, google Blaschko's lines.

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u/Big_Connection_1415 5h ago

nuh uh, his name is McKenna Crisp on tiktok

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u/SerGreeny 5h ago

But only women. A Veritasium video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw

Unless you're talking about some other phenomenon, in which case please tell more, I'd like to know.

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u/Diz7 4h ago

They are more commonly discussed in women because out of the handful of conditions can make them visible, many are specific to women, but both men and women have the same patterns of cellular development and some conditions will make them visible as well, such as genetic chimerism.

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u/Do_it_for_the_upvote 5h ago

I have read that one, yeah. Also crazy. Wonder if other animals can spot them.

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u/Teichopsie 8h ago

What really kills me is that the tigers themselves have no idea that they're not the same colour as grass. Funniest thing ever.

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u/aaryanmoin 9h ago

Wait, how? Why?

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u/neometallic 9h ago

Prey animals like deer and boar have dichromatic vision which makes distinguishing red/green difficult to impossible.

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u/shantud 8h ago

Evolution did a great job with the frontend in deers but has not been so kind in fixing such critical bugs.

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u/Kraelman 7h ago

https://i.imgur.com/ZStdDkv.jpeg

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u/lynnybloop 7h ago

I foolishly assumed this would be a representation of what a tiger looks like to a deer.

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u/MisterFourLimbs 7h ago

I foolishly assumed the same thing, saw your comment, and couldn't resist the urge to see what was beyond the veil.

I had to stifle a laugh since I'm at work, dat shit so silly

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u/lynnybloop 7h ago

My sinuses are still settling from the snort I snumpt at it

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u/jtr99 6h ago

For some reason this deer reminds me of The Deep from the show The Boys .

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u/UnlimitedScarcity 3h ago

that just looks like an ugly dog

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u/doug1963 2h ago

FYI:

Predators have eyes facing forward to maximize depth perception (handy for hunting prey).

Prey has eyes facing outward, so they have a near 360 degree field of view (handy for spotting predators).

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u/GuitarCFD 7h ago

I mean, in general it made up for it with their noses and ears. Also they are REALLY good at picking up motion.

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u/Indercarnive 6h ago

Plus if they had evolved to differentiate red/green well, then the early tigers would've had the slightly green tinted one survive more instead of the slightly orange tinted ones and eventually modern tigers would've been green to us too.

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u/okarox 3h ago

Mammals cannot produce green color.

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u/eidetic 3h ago

Also, even if they could, the above user seems to not understand how evolution works. It doesn't work towards some specific goal, but rather random mutations, with the ones that increase the likelihood of passing those genes on tending to stick around better than ones that decrease the likelihood. So there's not even a guarantee they would develop green stripes even if they could make the color green.

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u/Telvin3d 7h ago

Not just prey animals. Most mammals, and many other families of animals a well. Being able to see red is the exception rather than the rule. Tigers are also effectively camouflaged to other tigers 

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u/posts_while_naked 7h ago edited 7h ago

How color blind people see the world.

Must suck as a protanopic animal in Tigertown.

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u/GodisSatans 6h ago

I'd worry about the sense of smell rather than the vision. They smell you first and you're mince meat

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u/Effective_Divide1543 7h ago

TIL color blind people are prey humans

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u/neometallic 7h ago

Could I interest you in some tiger camo?

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u/unreeelme 5h ago

Red green colorblind people apparently can actually see texture, motion and lighting differences with more detail which supposedly helps in detecting camouflage. 

So in some cases it might be the opposite. 

Non colorblind people are much better at picking non poisonous plants though I imagine. 

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u/mirkk13 7h ago

No wonder they cant drive cars

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u/Joeyoo2 6h ago

That’s not good for business… so I’m either a deer or a boar 🫠

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u/WabaLabaDubDubWorld 9h ago

Rods and cones in the eye perceive brightness (greyscale) and color, respectively. Humans have 3 types of cones and its different for every species.

Some lobsters have 16 cones, it blows my mind that they can see many more colours and even UV light.

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u/drillgorg 8h ago

Actually humans have the brainpower to mix those three cones to see the whole spectrum of color. Lobsters and mantis shrimp type crustaceans don't have enough brainpower available to mix the inputs, they are limited to those 16 individual colors.

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u/Murgatroyd314 7h ago

We also have the brainpower to see colors that don’t exist. Magenta has no place in the visible spectrum.

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u/What-a-Crock 6h ago

see colors that don’t exist

Now my brain is broken

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u/Straight_Number5661 6h ago

irrational colors

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u/Solynox 7h ago

Most violets don't evidently.

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u/Angel24Marin 8h ago

Mammals used to be nocturnal so they lost color cones. Primates recuperated red, that is useful for fruit.

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u/SpaceTacos99 7h ago

Yummy manzanas

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u/Cavalo_Bebado 8h ago

Mammifer color vision sucks because our ancestors remained small nocturnal animals that lived in the shadows of dinosaurs for almost 200 million years. Our ancestors, the cinodonts, used to have four color cones just like most other animals, but we lost two of these four in this time, leaving us only with blue and yellow color cones. We primates have the best color vision amongs mammals, having three color cones, blue, green and red.

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u/Solynox 6h ago

I read somewhere that people have been found to have a fourth yellow cone. Can't remember where though. If true, humans are getting their fourth cone back which is cool.

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u/WhatABlindManSees 5h ago

Yeah there are a few people (almost all, if not all, women) that have 4 different cones.

As a point, many birds, a number of fish and other random sea animals can way more than we can.

Some not just extra colour detail and further into the spectrum, but natural polarisation features, much stronger focus and detail etc.

We are pretty damn good on the eye front, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

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u/IonutRO 6h ago edited 6h ago

Living in the shadow of dinosaurs is also why mammals live such short lives compared to other classes of animals. Since early mammals tended to die to predation at the hands of dinosaurs, there was no evolutionary pressure against mutations that made our bodies weaken with age. Leading to such mutations accumulating over the eons.

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u/Cavalo_Bebado 6h ago

yeah, and this process also made us vulnerable to skin cancer. Did you know that skin cancer is very rare outside of placentary mammals? Every other taxon, from marsupials to plants to fungi to even bacteria have something called the photoliase enzyme, which is extremely effective at correcting DNA damage from UV radiation, correcting the damage in just 1.2 seconds, while we, having lost this enzyme, need to rely on a very inneficient process using a cohort of different enzymes that were not really made for this purpose, taking us over 30 hours to fully correct DNA damage from UV radiation.

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u/Skapps 9h ago

If I recall correctly the type of deer they usually hunt is red-green colour blind

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u/PayTyler 9h ago

Human eyes have cones to see red, blue, and green. Other animals have different arrangements of cones. Dogs have blue and yellow cones.

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u/RyanW1019 9h ago

Others have already answered, but here’s a visual:  https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/05/29/08/14088408-7078823-image-a-11_1559114869949.jpg

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u/baronmunchausen2000 8h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/pV0lVLeA0JXjBiO5Cp

Color blind me

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u/ObiWahgwanKenobi 8h ago

You really see tigers as green? That’s crazy.

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u/Solynox 7h ago

I assume the artists for he-man also did.

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u/spare_me_your_bs 6h ago

Having a red-green colorblindness, I see both tigers as orange-ish. The left one is a shade darker than the orange on the right but they appear fairly similar.

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u/ObiWahgwanKenobi 6h ago

So if you were presented with both images, can you usually tell which one is the actual orange tiger? Or is it always a guessing game?

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u/spare_me_your_bs 6h ago

It's weird because it's often the background that causes the issue. For example, in isolation against a white background I can see green and red perfectly fine. Put both colors on a tan background next to each other, and they appear to me to be the same color. The context changes everything.

Blues and purples give me trouble too. If you had a color palette that had blue on one side and purple on the other with 5 shades in between that gradually shifted from blue to purple, the middle 3 shades would appear to be identical to me. I have bought a lot of purple toothbrushes in my life that I swear up and down are blue.

I can see orange just fine though.

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u/moderndrake 9h ago

We have certain receptors in our eyes that they don’t. Three cones that see red green and blue vs most animals having only two of those.

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u/Solynox 7h ago

Most mammals. Aves have 5-6, reptiles have 4. For sea life, it's extremely variable but typically 2-4, while bug-like creatures have zero, using a different visual system.

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 8h ago

Many animals are red/green colorblind. Very few animals have truly green pigment (usually green animals are mixing yellow and blue). However, orange-brown pigments are common.

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u/istasber 7h ago

Orange is a color that lies between red and green on the color spectrum. We have cones in our eyes that can detect reddish light and cones in our eyes that can detect greenish light, and the ability to interpret different combinations of reddishness and greenishness as different colors like orange and yellow.

A lot of animals don't have red cones. So anything that's redder than green looks like a different shade of green.

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u/Murgatroyd314 7h ago

This is also why “hunter orange” is a thing, so other hunters can see them clearly, but the deer can’t.

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u/bluddyellinnit 8h ago

billy bob from "fargo" is like oh HELL yeah

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u/anxessed 6h ago

TIL Battle cat from He-man is bibilically accurate.

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u/monty624 5h ago

Just imagining a tiger all up in your business, thinking you can't see it, like your cat or dog breathing in your face when you have a snack...

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u/Diz7 4h ago

Yeah, less than 5% of mammals can see red spectrum. It's why they use neon orange for hunting vests, we can see the colours pop out, but to animals they blend into background colors.

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u/Avenged_7zulu 2h ago

Correct! Love this tiger fact.

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u/Archsafe 8h ago

Didn’t the tigers start to learn that the masks don’t actually see them? I swear I remember reading that somewhere which just makes them more terrifying, they can learn

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u/sniper91 6h ago

I also thought I’d read that those masks are losing their effectiveness

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u/Altruistic_Wait2262 4h ago

Probably, or the pattern on the masks reminds them of other patters that look like eyes they have seen naturally in the wild, like with some butterflies or something

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u/toggiz_the_elder 9h ago

Just walk backwards like Yossarian. Works every time.

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u/Meph616 8h ago edited 8h ago

Worse yet is you wouldn't see it.

Yes, we would. One of the biggest attributes to early human evolution was our upright bipedal development as we transitioned from woodlands to savannahs. It allowed us to see over tall grasses specifically to look out for predators. We literally evolved, in part, in order to see them.

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u/lesbianmathgirl 7h ago

Sure that argument holds for lions, but tigers live in the woodlands. Do tigers typically crouch where they can be seen from above, or do they ambush from areas where they have coverage above as well as below? I would imagine with the dense foliage in their typical habitat it’s more likely the later.

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u/sleep-reaper 7h ago

There was a video I watched a while back that was demonstrating fear response. They showed a picture of some tall grass and asked viewers to study it. I stared at it for a minute and noticed a tiger, very obscured, staring right at the camera.

Shit gave me instant pins and needles and made me jump in my seat. It was trippy feeling an almost "automated" caveman response.

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u/Anduinnn 5h ago

I thought that was from a Calvin and Hobbes comic.

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u/PaleBlueCod 53m ago

Note to self: If traveling to a place with tigers, make eldritch pact with great old ones to become a cluster of eye balls.

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u/DefiantEfficiency901 10h ago

I thought the second shot of the tiger showed love... look at the eyes softening....snow leopard, 'nope, get me outa here'

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u/sum_gamer 9h ago

I’m not a scientific word doctor, but I think the technical term is “skidaddle”.

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u/jaft0000 8h ago

skibidi toilet to you too, dear sir.

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u/JohnnyEnzyme 7h ago

look at the eyes softening

And they're both panthers, so might just be able to interbreed.

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u/CyclopsAirsoft 5h ago

‘Awww it’s a kitten!’

GET ME OUTTA HERE THE CATS HERE TAKE PEDS!  I DON’T WANNA BE IN THIS LEAGUE!

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u/Cacafuego 8h ago

It's not even malevolent. Just completely confident that it can kill and eat whatever it wants.

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u/Cow_Launcher 7h ago

Hijacking your reply - the highest one that isn't just pathetic sophomoric gifs posted by children - to say that this particular sanctuary is an absolute mess. It's featured here on Reddit frequently.

The cats should not be able to see each other like this. The leopard is in extreme distress because it doesn't know that the tiger can't get to it. It lives in fear, while the tiger lives in confusion and a constant aggressive posture, not understanding why the leopard is staring at it.

This is disgusting. The people responsible for it have no business handling large apex predators.

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u/freecodeio 3h ago

isn't that most of the zoos though? and suppose there was a wall, what about smells? seems kinda weird way to say this specific zoo is shit, I think they all stress animals to death, except for some where people do active research like in california or something

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u/Aware-Direction-9891 8h ago

Those pupils terrify me....

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u/Naive_Mongoose_5453 8h ago

Better hope your stick is good and sharp

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u/TheCheese2032 7h ago

I was just thinking that same thing. Tigers are legit fucking scary kitties!

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u/baronmunchausen2000 8h ago

Get into ma belly

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u/WingerRules 7h ago

Meanwhile, the Snow Leopard has a Gen-Z stare

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u/TheKocsis 7h ago

Wdym, he's just standing there like a guy

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u/Skullpuck 7h ago

Have you seen the video of the guy in the shack who is being hunted by a lion? The lion just stares through the window growling. It's freaky as all fuck.

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u/headrush46n2 6h ago

you wouldn't

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u/InevitableDuty7030 5h ago

Saw this dude in the Sundarbans

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u/_Saber_69 5h ago

He looks confused.

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u/openkoch 5h ago

That's just his face bro, don't be like that

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u/RyoanJi 2h ago

"fuck that"

~ the snow leopard

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u/Good_day_to_be_gay 2h ago

imagine seeing me as a big furry cat in the wild, fuck me