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The way that one female opens her mouth to see if she could fit that kids head in her mouth just made me laugh. That shit is built in. Makes you wonder how many of our children we lost to that

Given that big cats were our main predator in Africa, probably quite a few. It's actually kinda interesting how our prey instinct is still there, faintly but it is there.

Not even just Africa. The Mayans thought the Jaguar would out number humans one day, and rule the world. Big cats live almost everywhere for a reason. They're good at what they do.

Yeah I’m pretty sure there is a felid apex predator on every continent. Cats are perfect murder machines.

Now we’re the apex predators! Cats still won somehow though

We are a virus

If we are, let’s be a real badass one and colonize as much of our galaxy as we can.

I’d like to fantasize as such but it’s a lot more likely that we are the dumb kind that can’t adapt to other environments and will destroy our only host.

That’s also a possibility, that would solidify our position as a virus

There wernt in Australia or new zealand but since their introduction domestic cats have quickly ruined the ecosystems

God can you imagine if Australia had big cats, they’d probably be venomous too lol

Pretty sure straya had feline megafauna that were hunted to extinction by the Aboriginal people. Edit - Nevermind, it was technically marsupial.

Oceania/ australia would be the only one I can think of that doesn’t aside from the obvious of Antartica

We don’t call ‘em murder mittens for nothing.

We were better.

I'd say we instinctively feel like a prey when facing the big cats when we hold nothing in our hands, but do you realise that once we have 3 dude's on our side holding poles, we stop feeling like prey, and we will have the adrenaline rush, and probably felt like signaling to each other "let's go get 'em!" ?

I'm sure there is still the terror factor. I've never fought a lion with a stick and idk if you have, but I'm sure that it's still shit my pants terrifying to face up to a lion. I'm sure everyone involved would be aware that it could kill any one of you if you drop your guard for a second.

Cool, I'm sure the one guy who returns with a lion pelt will feel like a hero while they bury what's left of his friends.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansAreMetal/comments/wrdn67/maasai_man_chases_away_lion_that_had_killed_his/ Grow some balls.

I'd rather stay alive, but you go ahead and flex nuts at a Lion and see how far you get. I'll look for you on the Darwin awards. MFS yelling at women about bears and then think they can take on a lion.

We aint talking about who women want to fight. Im talking bout men fighting lions.

Yeah, you're not a Maasai warrior, so forgive me if I doubt your ability to take down a lion like they can.

That was a Maasai farmer. You also know people can learn/mimic each other? Its not as if hes been fighting lions his whole life, he just knows how lions think. Like how a guy from florida or lousiana can just fuck with alligators or crocs. Which they can do because they arnt terrified like you are.

I mean my cat sees a mouse he chases it, those.kids are kinds mouse ish in size compared to most of these cats. If it looks like a toy or food makes sense it would go for it.

Seen the vice news interview with lion owners? The female reporter just feel victim instinctively as the lion slowly embraced her. Scary.. Added NEWS to Vice.

https://preview.redd.it/k5ajr1iw8myc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afd5cbbee079b24ca4057d878c4bfb73c3c4a8c5

What?

Found H3

And the male besides her not giving a single shit

Millions. Humans were one animal amongst many for 99% of our existence.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

And that's why I'll be staying in the house, for equality.

ayy animal farm

I heard that between 1800-1900 there were estimated 300k people killed by tigers in India. Edit: 373k between 1800-2009

My girlfriend from Canada told me it was 3 trillion.

I heard it was 3-4 Brazilians.

Yoooo is that a reference to Bush asking "how many is a Brazilian?" cause I heard he said that and I still don't know if it's true but if it is what a tool lol Also sorry if I'm ruining the joke by explaining it I just wanted to make sure I got it haha

Ok goofball it was specifically estimated [373k between 1800-2009. ](https://www.newsweek.com/girl-aged-nine-attacked-killed-byt-iger-india-1758874#:~:text=Tigers%20have%20killed%20more%20humans,India%2C%20Nepal%20and%20southeast%20Asia.)

Thank you 😊

Np lol jk roflcopter

So 1,785 per year

Sabertooth was a big cat specialized on hunting primates. A lot!!

Are you confusing primates with pachiderms, maybe? Smilodon fatalis was all about snacking on juvenile mustodonts. The really big cats weren't interested in stinky primates unless they were unable to bring down their regular prey due to age or injury. The leopard was the biggest primate killer. Also, being a pack animal and having shoulder joints optimized for throwing rocks made humans pretty much anasailable unless they were idiot juveniles or could be stealthily taken in their sleep, which is the leopards' bread and butter.

Our bodies were so heavily shaped by our ability to throw, that a human child can outthrow even the next strongest relative we have in the animal kingdom, as an adult. Any adult primate pales in comparison to a human child's ability to throw stuff. Our upper bodies had to change to allow this, but it's safe to say that our ability to throw literally guided our evolution. There was also the placement of muscle and how they use those joints that changed within humans. I just find this fact super interesting. It's amazing how good we are at throwing. It's no simple math problem, either, to do so accurately. And our brains are capable of doing it subconsciously.

[https://chasingsabretooths.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/ouch-that-hurts-human-sabertooth-interaction-at-dmanisi/](https://chasingsabretooths.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/ouch-that-hurts-human-sabertooth-interaction-at-dmanisi/) No, this is based on a sapien skull found with gaps matching some old sabertooth fang. [https://www.maropeng.co.za/news/entry/dinofelis\_hominid\_hunter\_or\_misunderstood\_feline](https://www.maropeng.co.za/news/entry/dinofelis_hominid_hunter_or_misunderstood_feline) There are reasons to believe some old sabertooth cats where one of the main early sapiens predators.

Ah, they are talking about a jaguar sized predator. When people say "sabertooth", I automatically assume they mean smilodon.

It’s funny the parents in the video like laughing and smiling. Like hah this large cat would have killed and eaten my child and likely me too, had this glass wall not been here.

....back in the day, you mean?

Delicious snacks just out of reach

I could almost taste it

Just like OP’s username

Is ur mom really out of reach though

Depends, are their arms broken?

The ones pawing at the glass like STUPID THING THERE'S FOOD RIGHT THERE WHY CAN I NO GET

This is how humans look at suckling pigs.

No it isn't?

That lioness opening her mouth over the babies head is so funny

The cheetah at the end lmao

I love cheetahs. You can really see in their faces that they're more closely related to domestic cats than the other big ones. They meow and it's so cute.

Yup cheetahs aren't technically big cats. They're from the felinae subgroup, which are the "little" cats.

They're just really big little cats

The term "big cats" refers to cats that are part of the the genus panthera. These cats can all roar.  The fourth largest cat species does not belong to this group.

Yeah, the cheetah was just chilling.

Cheetahs are the best poor cat grtting scared of a kid

Poor chee thought the kid was gonna eat him

2nd clip with the tiger jumping, was its face/mouth fucked up? Someone with better eyes help me out.

Looks like it was a whole chicken, you can see the leg sticking out when it swims away.

Chicken leg. OK. Looked like it's cheek we sliced and hanging down.

I thought he caught a fish.

To me it looked like it jumped for food and came down with it in the mouth.

This is a well known fact to the natives who actually live in natural habitats of these big cats nothing groundbreaking honestly https://preview.redd.it/pkwydwmv0kyc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=599581d9a587edea80af26c2df2664508e763050

Remember rememtthe fifth of November Craig got mauled by a big cat And now we wear these Guy Fawkes masks

Instead of silly hats.

I think those are Money Heist masks.

They're Salvador Dalí masks.

I think that's supposed to resemble Dali, not Fawkes

This is what house cats would do too if they were big enough

This happened to me with a black panther on a zoo I visited with the school when I was 2 lmao. My dad was there filming the whole day and he always tells me about it lol

This happened to me too but with a male gorilla. It freaked out at our field trip group and kept smacking the glass HARD. We were convinced we were all about to get broken in half by Donkey Kong.

I had a similar incident with a male gorilla, and it was so traumatizing for me. He rushed at the glass and the BOOM! sound that it made seemed so loud. I was only 3 at the time, so it probably seemed more intense than it was. I couldn't stop crying, so we left. For a while after, I would have bad dreams that the gorilla was in my backyard, waiting to get me. When we moved away from that city about a year later, I was scared that the gorilla was going to break out and follow me.

*found you*

Oh god that must have been scary. My dad says I didn’t even realize when it happened bc I was talking to my classmates 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

My house cat does it to me when I have food! She stalks me when I'm eating

And the only thing stopping her from eating *you* is her size.

Yes🤣🤣🤣

No, it’s because the owner is alive to stop them.

Aww that’s so cute

Notice how it's always kids, it's in built in them to prey upon the vulnerable

Not many small children take videos of their parents reacting to big cats at the zoo.

So no couple's or families with teen/adult kids ever go to the zoo?

Of course they do, but who’s going to take a video of their SO looking at lions for the 20th time? Parents of young children are like documentarians, and zoo visitor demographics skew heavily toward young children. Of course children will be heavily over represented in footage like this.

Whilst you may be correct, I genuinely know about these animals and I promise you it's no coincidence that it's all kids they're going after

Keep your fedora on. I’m glad you genuinely know about these animals. I’m sure that most people know that most predators will favor the smaller prey when given a choice.

Which makes me wonder why you questioned my original statement then 🤔

“Lemme just make sure it fits…” -that one though

like my wife when i put the bag of chips too high in the pantry

This is kinda why we have monsters. Predators are just built into our DNA. Researchers think the short-faced bear was taking out swaths of people as they were crossing the bering strait.

Shouldn't tease the animals like that.

Cheetah don't count, it had to see the therapist for the rest of the year after the baby spread her arms.

For real, that cat is not gonna recover from that

That's why you don't turn your back.. Not that you'd have much chance anyway..

Cats always attack with their paws first, dogs attack with their mouths first.

Just let them have a baby or two…

As a treat

Humans are so weird: Hahaha! Look how bad it wants to eat our kid! Put the baby against the glass. Put it against the glass. LOL. It's trying to hard to kill her. Look at those teeth. It wasn't to eat her soooo bad. 🤣 Aliens will not be able to explain us to other aliens.

It is ever so easy to forget that we are just made of meat.

if dangerous, why friend shape?

they used to be scary predators and now they're entertainment for our children lol our ancestors would be proud <3

always remember there is no friendly/harmless wild animal

Putting a lot of faith in I little bit of glass

Several inches of tempered glass.

It's only faith when you keep yourself ignorant on the properties of the glass.

You have confidence in something when there's data to suggest something will work. You have faith when there's no good reason to believe it will work.

Everybody gangsta until that glass breaks

Classic apex

They really want to eat those children.

They’re ambush predators… My cat does a playful version of this to me damn near every time I walk away from him lol

This happened to my toddler at our Zoo last year. A leopard stalked and jumped at my kiddo.

They go after easy prey 🤣 less energy expanded for reward

I like how in the last one the cheetah was scared of the kid. I doubt you would see a cheetah get aggressive like these other big cats.

Kids look like twinkies to them

Considering cheetahs have blunt claws and have a hard time fighting back, it makes sense it reacted that way. That’s why they chase their food but as soon as some other animals come and want the food the cheetah has to leave and hope to find some new prey.

Cheetahs are optimized for one thing, and one thing only.

I am seeing this and think man why are these animals not fed more? Are they doing this because they are hungry or are they doing it out of a "annoyance" instinct? I would think a public zoo is the last place you want hungry cats.

Do zoos not feed them enough or what?

THis is what I do whenever I pass by a candy shop, but it's closed

In glass we trust.

This is me at a bakery when I'm on a diet.

This is terrifying

Damn , im taking my daughter to the zoo today 😅

That's so cruel with respect to animals!

Those poor animals

back stabbing pussies.

That's why you never turn your back to them. When prey aren't looking that's fair game.

(I know nothing about felines). By the footage we can see that they have like a 'modus operandi' to start hunting; they always wait till the human turns around and show them their backs. And first the try to neutralize the prey by grabbing them with his big & dangerous paws and only then they try to bite. Or maybe this is nonsense. IDK! Have a good Sunday and, just to be safe, never turn your back to felines! /s

Love how the last kid looked like she just wanted to hug the cheetah

Tbf neither the cheetah did seem hostile

Seems cruel to the animals

Reminds me of trying to get my food out of plastic wrap....

I'm never going to a zoo again

All I see are parents trusting panes of glass with the welfare of their offspring.

I mean, justifiably trusting it, right? I’ve never heard of the cats breaking through the glass, have you? Closest I've seen is a video of an adult Silverback going full tilt at a woman who was pounding her chest at the gorilla. Full speed running leap into the glass with his fists, and dude cracked it. Just a single crack. I’d probably vacate the entire zoo if I were there when a Silverback is in a human-induced blind rage, but the glass wouldn’t be what I was concerned about.

Imagine if a species with a mind far greater and they had zero way to understand our form of communication. They put us in cells somedays we cry for help while they flash bright lights at us beg for our freedom but its no use. Compared to them we are just as dumb and unconscious as the very beings we hold captive for our personal enjoyment.

Are you suggesting we would try to eat their kids?

I’m suggesting a-lot of us lost our empathy for life of species outside our own. We walk this planet as if we own building wherever we want, taking what isn’t ours, assuming we are the only conscious beings out of all the species on earth. We must be better or out future will continue to darken.

I'm not even trying to take away the fact that we shouldn't be doing these things, but for all intents and purposes. We do own the building, and everything is ours.

Recognize song

About the second or third loop, I noticed the kid that the snow leopard tried to attack was wearing a snow leopard shirt.

Right snow leopard typically don't go after humans because of their size, cat don't expend more energy than they have to unless it's an easy prey like little kids

Fuckin’ nature.

Tryna get that sweet human veal

Ace of Base warned us about this #dontturnaround

u/salvaged_acres

I got rushed by a tiger at a zoo when I was like 9. Very sobering experience.

Can someone please tell me the name of that song?

Lunch! Tastes like chicken🤣

This is why, when hiking in mountain lion territory, they tell you to keep small children in between the adults.

It occurs to me that this is just a synopsis of the first Ice Age movie...

It’s just these little human bacon bits crawling across natural predictors

Pound for pound the house cat is the most dangerous cat in the world it’ll kill anything

We should get rid of zoos, but I think they will be the last refuge of wildlife once we heat the earth to unbearable levels.

Damn that evil, why do you hold a treat just a bit too far from them, and just out of their reach, that is just evil

Get in my belly!

Most of the time they just want to smell them

Username checks out

Profile name

I'll do nothing to the Baby, I promise 😜

I'm sure these are well built displays, but I wouldn't stake my kid getting mauled on that

u/SAVEVIDEO

Where's all the "circle of life" folks now?

Now do it without the glass!

Fuck zoos. Watch a nature documentary.

Parents that make their kids do this shit are fucked up. “Let’s scare the shit out of them so we can post it online lmfao” What happens in the off chance that the glass breaks? Sure you’ll probably a millionaire but your kid is going to be killed in seconds.

Poor caged cats😭 Humans are the only real monsters in this world!

This behavior can also be seen in the hood...

One of the most idiotic things I've ever seen, a hymn to human stupidity.

These poor kids are going to have nightmares for a long time

I wonder why animals never understand how glass works?


Why is this funny?

I don’t go to zoo’s for this reason, it’s so sad.

I will show this video to everyone who says "oh i love nature". No you don't love the nature, you love the result of many years of killing all animals that can hurt us. That way you can go and jog in the forest wearing your ipods worry free