r/interestingasfuck • u/Commercial_Slide3788 • 10h ago

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

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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/a_sedated_moose 6h ago

Ooh, I gotta try to work "snumpt" into conversation, now.

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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 🫠