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Wild animals are so amazing, and this is a wild animal that seems to me to be extra-amazing. Think about the skills required to survive in this environment. No
by adriand 2y ago
Wild animals are so amazing, and this is a wild animal that seems to me to be extra-amazing. Think about the skills required to survive in this environment. No tools! No GPS coordinates for the nearest water source. No grocery store: anything it wants to eat is as wily and tough as it is. And it’s so stealthy and elusive that we’d never see it without the use of high-tech infrared cameras. This creature is a real world superhero character.
- trhway 2y ago> Think about the skills required to survive in this environment. yes, that level of skills makes a scorpion just a delicious snack for the fennec (desert fox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISsA591ApQM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISsA591ApQM
- pests 2y agoI joke, but its stuff like this that makes the existence of bigfoot / etc possible. Take this ocelot and give him better limbs, more intelligence, and a desire / need / instinct to avoid humans at all costs. I could see some animal / creature being so good at avoiding humans that we have never seen them but yet they are all around.
- bamboozled 2y agoIf it had more intelligence than a gorilla , wouldn’t it be somewhat like us ? Why would it want to hide in the forest ?
- fooker 2y agoBecause homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years. Survival of the fittest ensures that if some species survived, they have to be specialized in avoiding humans.
- pests 2y ago> they have to be specialized in avoiding humans Exactly. What I find even more crazy is how other species of Homo were around until just 30,000 years ago and maybe as recently as 12,000. I find a lot of people have the perception that it was a much longer time but it could be as recent as the building of Gobekli Tepe.
- olalonde 2y agoThey couldn't possibly know about trail cams though.
- lioeters 2y agoThey would smell the human on the cameras from miles away.
- pests 2y agoTrail cams have to be set by humans. Humans leave a scent. Maybe they evolved to blacklist any area that at any time smelled like a human.
- wil421 2y agoYou describe pretty much any animal. They all want to avoid humans but there’s food all around our homes. Deer, coyotes, opossums, raccoons, turkey, and an occasional bear all live around me but are rarely seen. Most of them I only see at night on my cameras and I live in a suburban environment with a small patch of woods behind my house. We would’ve found bones from Bigfoot by now.
- Retric 2y agoSignificant Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA stuck around because of interbreeding so there’s disagreement around if we’re actually different species vs subspecies. It depends on how viable offspring were in general and we just don’t know.
- fooker 2y ago
- dvt 2y ago> Why would it want to hide in the forest? They are are plenty of actual humans that are isolationist. From the Amish, to the Sentinelese, to the Pintupi, plenty of peoples have purposefully curbed contact.
- pests 2y agoProbably more we don't even know about. (offtopic: was looking at your profile, you joined HN the same week as me almost 12 years ago. how the time flies!)
- shakna 2y agoIf we had a sense of intelligence, why would we want to deal with... Us? Humanity has shown a considerable skill at eliminating other species, and a tendency to eliminate ourselves anytime we encounter something slightly different. If you were in a forest, would you pick the bear or the man?
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 2y agoIt could be intelligent and still pick a bad strategy.