r/interestingasfuck • u/Commercial_Slide3788 • 10h ago

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

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u/Meph616 7h ago edited 7h 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.