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>Consider that African megafauna have co-existed with early hominids It is this imho Animals in Africa are more scared by the sounds of people than lions. htt
by lawlessone 2y ago
>Consider that African megafauna have co-existed with early hominids
It is this imho Animals in Africa are more scared by the sounds of people than lions.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/october/human-voices-scare-african-mammals-more-than-lions.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/october/human-voice...
And the bigger ones like Hippos are hyper aggressive to humans, allegedly they kill more people than any other African animal.
- mrkstu 2y agoInteresting though, that seemingly unlike North America's Mammoths and Mastodon's, African Elephants never became a concentrated target for hunting enough to be driven into extinction. Though that may just argue that they were unable to adapt to climate change in NA fast enough rather than being hunted to extinction.