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[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

I read somewhere that we find predators cute because we’re predators, so a lot of the things we’re tuned to find cute in our offspring are also things other predators share.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

"Aww it's so cute that it has knives for hands" me when I'm playing with my cat

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

We might “be” predators, but we didn’t evolve to be predators. At least not obligatory predators like tigers.

There’s no good evidence that shows meat from hunting was a major part of our diet for 99% of our evolutionary history.

The vast majority of ancient humans found subsisted mostly on fruits, tubers, grain etc.

It’s likely we started eating more meat only during the past ice age.

We’re more like bears than tigers.

[-] OnlyTrueLiberal@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

But aren't bears, at least brown bears and polar bears considered to be predators, even apex predators? They're in order called "carnivora" so I think they might have evolved to be carnivores and predators. That being said pandas aren't predators. I think you meant that we aren't obligatory carnivores?

I'd say that apes and humans are less predatory than bears. But some species do hunt for food.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Pandas aren't predators because at some point in their evolutionary history they lost the ability to taste meat. So they eat bamboo instead, but still have the digestive system of a carnivore so it's an extremely inefficient way of getting calories.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bears have omnivore digestive systems tho.

Being from the Carnivora family doesn’t make you an obligatory carnivore.

(Though their last common ancestor was most likely an obligatory carnivore yes. But bears are a very old group, and they have evolved away from obligatory meat eating a long long time ago. We also have some adaptations away from being herbivores for example - shorter intestines than gorillas etc.).

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I never said it did? And I'm specifically referring to pandas, which do have the digestive system of a carnivore. Sure they're still capable of digesting non-meat, but it's inefficient.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bears (with the exception of polar bears) actually hunt very little. Black bears barely eat meat even. Their diet is mainly composed of nuts and berries. They eat meat if they find carcasses or are desperate enough.

And like even deer hunt rabbits for food if they are desperate. You wouldn’t call them “predators”.

[-] belligerentkitten@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

kitty!!!!

(i will die if i ever meet a big cat)

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Scritches get stitches sadness

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago
[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

It's the pointy bits you need to worry about

[-] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

pet! That! FRIEND!!!!

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

OHNONONONO look at the top of his head

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Ears say somebody's thinking about knocking a glass off the counter top

[-] asante@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago
[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Social camouflage.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago
[-] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago
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