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Unless those big cats were dispersed in >5 numbers in the same area how are they supposed to reproduce? This problem will just solve itself in a couple of (cat)

Unless those big cats were dispersed in >5 numbers in the same area how are they supposed to reproduce? This problem will just solve itself in a couple of (cat) years

dotancohen 2y ago
The problem may no longer exist in a few years, but children used to playing in a deemed-safe countryside might be at risk in the meantime.
- jamesu 2y ago
  The groups far more likely at risk from being attacked by big cats roaming the countryside would be ramblers and dog walkers, especially older folk.
- hnlmorg 2y ago
  I think we are long past the era when kids would run off for miles into the countryside, unaccompanied by an adult. Plus if it did have a taste for humans, we’d already have reports of people being attacked by now. So if there is a big cat, and that’s a big “if”, then it’s more likely the cat is at risk from farmers shooting a predictor to the farm’s livestock, than kids are at risk from the cat
  - dotancohen 2y ago
    > I think we are long past the era when kids would run off for miles into the countryside, unaccompanied by an adult. That's horrible. In my country it is still possible. Maybe not "miles" into the field, but a few hundred meters, sure.
    - hnlmorg 2y ago
      The different between a few hundred meters and a few miles is pretty darn significant. A literal order of magnitude in fact
      - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
        At 13, I regularly solitarily ventured about 15 miles away (5 miles as the crow flies) by bicycle.
        hnlmorg 2y ago
        And how many years ago was that? I used to venture far when I was 13. Times are different now
    - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
      I'll take a wild guess that kids in rural Kenya venture quite far when there is no other form of transportation.
- tasuki 2y ago
  Children are at risk by cars, not cats...
  - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
    I believe this to be true. I remember some college or high school age people drove an old VW Beetle within an inch of my rear tire in the bike lane, honked repeated, and thought it would be funny if I fell and they ran me over.
bobcostas55 2y ago
Nature, uh, finds a way.
- peutetre 2y ago
  Keep absolutely still. Its vision is based on movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W85oD8FEF78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W85oD8FEF78

Unless those big cats were dispersed in >5 numbers in the same area how are they supposed to reproduce? This problem will just solve itself in a couple of (cat) years

dotancohen 2y ago

The problem may no longer exist in a few years, but children used to playing in a deemed-safe countryside might be at risk in the meantime.

jamesu 2y ago
The groups far more likely at risk from being attacked by big cats roaming the countryside would be ramblers and dog walkers, especially older folk.
hnlmorg 2y ago
I think we are long past the era when kids would run off for miles into the countryside, unaccompanied by an adult. Plus if it did have a taste for humans, we’d already have reports of people being attacked by now. So if there is a big cat, and that’s a big “if”, then it’s more likely the cat is at risk from farmers shooting a predictor to the farm’s livestock, than kids are at risk from the cat
- dotancohen 2y ago
  > I think we are long past the era when kids would run off for miles into the countryside, unaccompanied by an adult. That's horrible. In my country it is still possible. Maybe not "miles" into the field, but a few hundred meters, sure.
  - hnlmorg 2y ago
    The different between a few hundred meters and a few miles is pretty darn significant. A literal order of magnitude in fact
    - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
      At 13, I regularly solitarily ventured about 15 miles away (5 miles as the crow flies) by bicycle.
      - hnlmorg 2y ago
        And how many years ago was that? I used to venture far when I was 13. Times are different now
  - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
    I'll take a wild guess that kids in rural Kenya venture quite far when there is no other form of transportation.
tasuki 2y ago
Children are at risk by cars, not cats...
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
  I believe this to be true. I remember some college or high school age people drove an old VW Beetle within an inch of my rear tire in the bike lane, honked repeated, and thought it would be funny if I fell and they ran me over.

bobcostas55 2y ago

Nature, uh, finds a way.

peutetre 2y ago
Keep absolutely still. Its vision is based on movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W85oD8FEF78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W85oD8FEF78