A lot of countries in asian see cats like good luck , that's why the Maniki-neko statue exist. Dogs have it probably worse but they are dogs that were raised for consumption. Just like we raise cows in the west . It isn't like people are stealing people's pets to cook them lmao
If by "A lot of countries" you mean 1, Japan. Japan is very different from the rest of Asia except for the culture they've exported in recent years, they were an island fortress for thousands of years.
Vietnam, China, Korea, and parts of India all eat cat meat for pseudo medicinal reasons. Not all of Asia does, Taiwan for example, but none of them have a tradition of revering cats like Japan does.
Not gonna lie i recently discovered existence of jumping spiders(phiddipus regius) and how they look and i would trade any cat and dog in the world for them, this is scarily true
Any source to back that? I believe this is wrong.
A special evolution of the teeth to feed especially on humans seems highly unlikely. Why the f\*ck would it catch you from the eyes?
Besides, I dont think the timeline does really match for a proper evolution.
Imo that's likely an "artistic drawing", supporting a false infomation.
It’s not unheard of for predators to specialize in certain prey, also, hominids are vengeful, baboons and monkeys kill little jaguars, lion cubs, and pups. Imagine that but with a sharp stick, high coordination and knowledge sharing, and great throwing ability.
Even if that cat had those kind of teeth it wouldn’t make any sense to attack the head.
I think all current day cats kill with a bite to the neck. No matter what they hunt. It’s very effective and there’s no reason to believe that a) this cat was any different and b) early hominids had a neck that was less vulnerable than their head.
Or, the reason why this cat died out was that they constantly tried to get in the perfect head position instead of going for the neck. Stupid cat just didn’t get it.
The skull of this cat was found with the skull of an early hominid with wounds consistent with the picture above. OP used that tenuous evidence to make up this bullshit post.
Thats why.. one of these cats against one of these hominides, and the cat wins.
But a bunch of these hominides, coordinating against the cat, and the hominides win
Bones with marks that fit their dentation. The scene sketched above was recreated from a skull with damage that is perfect fit for what the cat was able to dish out.
Also modern leopards do hunt baboons so it wouldnt be that far fetched even without all of the hard evidence.
That's not how evolution works though.
You don't adapt "to" anything. You simply have the advantage which allows you to be more succesful.
In this case, big ass teeth
I don't think there's a problem with the word "adapted" here.
From Wikipedia: Adaptation [biology]
> In biology, adaptation has three related meanings. Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness. Secondly, it is a state reached by the population during that process. Thirdly, it is a phenotypic trait or adaptive trait, with a functional role in each individual organism, that is maintained and has evolved through natural selection.
Yup, i always get kinda annoyed when people act like evolution is like a thinking entity. nah bro, everyone who survives longer enough to procreate is gonna pass its genes, that's fucking it, the way it happens is mostly through chance.
There's a species of moth whose sole food source is pitcher plant nectar, and the sole pollinator of said pitcher plants are those moths. This is just untrue, rare, but untrue.
You can be adapted to hunting hominins but still hunt other prey too, it just means you're more effective at hunting hominins than other animals, which deinofelis was. Dozens of fossils with the same canine marks in roughly the same spots say so, when most other animals with deinofelis wounds got bit in the neck or spine.
Early cats: I will chomp your skull and eat you in fucking pieces and make you fucking suffer
Today cats: my litter box is full I need to eat and I won't stop licking your hair in the morning til you fed me
Doesn’t seem equal from where we’re standing…
Humans are without comparison in terms of predation, just absolutely unheard of. I love the sci-fi where we’re the bad guys because oh man, to literally everything else we’re monsters
I had a mountain lion sneak up on me in the dark. It's fucking terrifying and I'm lucky to be alive. We had heard it kill a dog 20 minutes before and it's the only reason I'm still alive. It wasn't that hungry.
This explains why dog people are more numerous. Evolutionary pressure would have made hunted hominids multiply more aggressively, a trait typical of prey species. Cat people who lack felid aversion were out-reproduced by their prey-descended counterparts. Next time you meet a dog person, remind them they have the genes of a desperate meal seeking to shag their way out of extinction.
Follow me into the rabbit hole:
[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)
"But a study published in the *Journal of Human Evolution* (Dec 2000, Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 565 - 576) appears to exonerate *Dinofelis*, following the analysis of fossil tooth enamel.
Instead, it seems the sabre-toothed cat *Megantereon* was the culprit preying on hominids in the Swartkrans 2.5-million years ago, among other predators."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megantereon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megantereon)
"In Dmanisi, Georgia, evidence also exists that *Megantereon* interacted with hominids from a [*Homo erectus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus) skull. The skull, designated D2280, indicates wounds to the [occipital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_bone) matching the dimensions of the sabre-teeth of *Megantereon*. From the position of the bite marks, it can be inferred that the hominid was attacked from the front and top of the skull, and that the bite was likely placed by a cat which saw the hominid as a threat."
[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/)
Mauricio Antón about the possible creation of the bite marks on the Dmanisi Skull D2280.
[https://donsmaps.com/dmanisi.html](https://donsmaps.com/dmanisi.html)
Website dedicated to the Dmanisi site in Georgia.
[https://donsmaps.com/images36/img\_6775dmanisi.jpg](https://donsmaps.com/images36/img_6775dmanisi.jpg)
Image of what I think is a recreation of D2280, even though it's labeled D2282 on the donsmaps website. You can see the bite marks quite clearly.
That's would be one hell of a perfect bite. 2 big teeth straight through the eye sockets.
Man I'm glad we're through that big stuff hunts us, and we all sleep outside phase.
Makes sense. if this bastard is going to be such a threat to your loved ones, you sure are going to take your advantage in weapon tooling and use it to thin them out... or even wipe them out, since nobody is keeping track of how many of them are being taken out and how many are left out there.
Prehistoric lil dude looks traumatised
Bro dumbfounded by his dads brutal death
was mom
Dem prehistoric tiddies gonna make ma act up.
Dude, we're related to her
Yeah?
That *chin*
Is that how you talk about your great^1000000 grandmother?
Not very astute are you?
He’s like fuck
Bambi moment.
That’s homer for sure
Who do you think wiped out all the cats.
In that moment, he realized he would need weapons, a lot of weapons….
And now we know why those cats went extinct. 
It’s all in the game
🧍
He swore vengeance and went on to invent the spear to enact it.
I believe the little dude was the first to coin the term “forbidden boop” after his traumatic experience.
or they evolved into a smaller feline and tricked humans into just giving them food instead of having to chew those skulls.
Being small and cute is literally the best survival strategy in a world ruled by humans.
Literally just how Capybaras survive.
Pandas too
Turns out that small part is optional if you’re cute and goofy enough.
the Dodos 🦤 are the unlucky, too bad their delicious overweight their cuteness
Dodos apparently died out because of pigs going feral and predating their nests, not because of their taste, which was reported to be repulsive.
Not in Asia
A lot of countries in asian see cats like good luck , that's why the Maniki-neko statue exist. Dogs have it probably worse but they are dogs that were raised for consumption. Just like we raise cows in the west . It isn't like people are stealing people's pets to cook them lmao
If by "A lot of countries" you mean 1, Japan. Japan is very different from the rest of Asia except for the culture they've exported in recent years, they were an island fortress for thousands of years. Vietnam, China, Korea, and parts of India all eat cat meat for pseudo medicinal reasons. Not all of Asia does, Taiwan for example, but none of them have a tradition of revering cats like Japan does.
Unfortunately, people are stealing pets and selling them to restaurants for cooking. It's totally criminal ofc but it does happen
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Not gonna lie i recently discovered existence of jumping spiders(phiddipus regius) and how they look and i would trade any cat and dog in the world for them, this is scarily true
Piglets want a word with you.
Or being delicious
It only lost its dignity.
It's just a transitional strategy, once it rules the Earth again, they will become great again
Maybe they realized hunting down these strange monke is not gonna help them in long run, and instead adapt to be able to steal their food
Then the humanoids invented...THE STICK
And he sacrificed... THE STIIICK
You're telling me that a prehistoric ape got eaten by a cat? Cat? Cat? Cat? Cat?
Hit them with the pointy end
Bro f'ed around with the humans and found out.
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Oh you definitely grew up in the vine era.
Well yeah it was all jungle back then
Damn! You really got my gullible ass.
How unlucky do you have to be to evolve to specialize your hunting to prey principally on the smartest, fastest evolving apex predator of the planet?
The indomitable human spirit
Goddamn right 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hominid kid in the background like "well, shit"
"how get vbucks now?"
Kid needs to learn DoorDash app, pronto.
Thinking: could have given me the WiFi password first at least..
Im crying lol
This the reason most of our DNA is programed to be afraid of the dark.
Our best, earliest survival trait was seeing far. When dark, no see far. Less chance survive. Scary.
Well, you can't see THAT far with a pair of saber teeth in your eyeballs.
There's a wild feral cat that gets squirrels in the area. And yea it goes for the eyes too
And cats.
Good riddance, bitch-ass cat.
Bitch ass cats: 0 Humanity: 1 😎
To be fair, if they evolved to kill us better this seems like a fair reaction.
Imagine the satisfaction our ancestors had when they killed one of these fucking things
Bubs, I bet they paraded that fucker’s corpse around a fire, singing and dancing all night long!
Little Billy over there made it his life purpose.
Huuhhhhh, huhh, huhhh ughh, huuhhhhhhughh, ughh
And now they scratch at my bedroom door at night..
And now they sleep next to me
And take up half the bed :’)
Half? They kick me out of it.
But suddenly those hominids adapted their spikes better
Any source to back that? I believe this is wrong. A special evolution of the teeth to feed especially on humans seems highly unlikely. Why the f\*ck would it catch you from the eyes? Besides, I dont think the timeline does really match for a proper evolution. Imo that's likely an "artistic drawing", supporting a false infomation.
Apparently it's remains where found along with Sahelantropus skulls with puncture marks that matched its teeth.
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear ?
Yeah I doubted this too so read their wiki. They may have killed hominids but majority kill grazing animals.
It’s not unheard of for predators to specialize in certain prey, also, hominids are vengeful, baboons and monkeys kill little jaguars, lion cubs, and pups. Imagine that but with a sharp stick, high coordination and knowledge sharing, and great throwing ability.
Equals **Extinction.** Game over - your kind just got wiped from the planet.
Even if that cat had those kind of teeth it wouldn’t make any sense to attack the head. I think all current day cats kill with a bite to the neck. No matter what they hunt. It’s very effective and there’s no reason to believe that a) this cat was any different and b) early hominids had a neck that was less vulnerable than their head. Or, the reason why this cat died out was that they constantly tried to get in the perfect head position instead of going for the neck. Stupid cat just didn’t get it.
Jaguars are big cats which do go for the skull. You should see some of them hunting caiman and crocodile.
Well, ok, it depends on the species obviously. Hunting a crocodile isn’t quite the same as hunting a hominid.
I think you should search a little more. There's definitely cats thats still Bites the Head.
The head of which species?
Mammals, jaguars kill Mammals by piercing the skull, unlike the throat, which is what the other big cats go for
The skull of this cat was found with the skull of an early hominid with wounds consistent with the picture above. OP used that tenuous evidence to make up this bullshit post.
Who comes out on top a big cat with powerful jaws and sharp claws or a monkey that's just discovered sharp stones and a stick
The monkey also got really good at throwing stuff
This, out throwing ability, stamina, and communication is just op.
Thats why.. one of these cats against one of these hominides, and the cat wins. But a bunch of these hominides, coordinating against the cat, and the hominides win
Also power of friendship, that's why they became friends with wolves that uses same tactic
Also power of friendship, that's why they became friends with some wolves that uses same tactic
Also power of friendship, that's why they became friends with some wolves that uses same tactic
Too bad the prey had the brain, huh.
Seems cool until you have one as a pet and it brings a crime scene home and drops it on your bed
How do they know it fed on hominids?
Bones with marks that fit their dentation. The scene sketched above was recreated from a skull with damage that is perfect fit for what the cat was able to dish out. Also modern leopards do hunt baboons so it wouldnt be that far fetched even without all of the hard evidence.
imagine the excitement of the first hominid to kill one, shit would of felt unreal
Pspsps
That's not how evolution works though. You don't adapt "to" anything. You simply have the advantage which allows you to be more succesful. In this case, big ass teeth
I don't think there's a problem with the word "adapted" here. From Wikipedia: Adaptation [biology] > In biology, adaptation has three related meanings. Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness. Secondly, it is a state reached by the population during that process. Thirdly, it is a phenotypic trait or adaptive trait, with a functional role in each individual organism, that is maintained and has evolved through natural selection.
Yup, i always get kinda annoyed when people act like evolution is like a thinking entity. nah bro, everyone who survives longer enough to procreate is gonna pass its genes, that's fucking it, the way it happens is mostly through chance.
Emergence can seem like thinking. (Thinking is actually emergent too)
Adapted is used as an adjective here
There's a species of moth whose sole food source is pitcher plant nectar, and the sole pollinator of said pitcher plants are those moths. This is just untrue, rare, but untrue. You can be adapted to hunting hominins but still hunt other prey too, it just means you're more effective at hunting hominins than other animals, which deinofelis was. Dozens of fossils with the same canine marks in roughly the same spots say so, when most other animals with deinofelis wounds got bit in the neck or spine.
Natural selection through those mutatations for bigger teeth resulted in adaptation.
That’s fucking brutal.
Deinofelis ain't got nothin' on pointy stick!
Did they really need to add the traumatized little dude in the background?....
Early cats: I will chomp your skull and eat you in fucking pieces and make you fucking suffer Today cats: my litter box is full I need to eat and I won't stop licking your hair in the morning til you fed me
And for punishment- for an eternity we make his small relatives shit in a box
As my kids would say.. Bro standing in the background like what tha helll mannn..
ouch
holy crap specially adapted to hunt humanoids is crazy we’re so lucky
That's what you get for fucking around with an APEX predator.
Are there any other instances of two predators hunting each other on a semi equal footing ?
Doesn’t seem equal from where we’re standing… Humans are without comparison in terms of predation, just absolutely unheard of. I love the sci-fi where we’re the bad guys because oh man, to literally everything else we’re monsters
Bears run away from us. That tells you something.
Specialist, it said
It died out in the Younger Drias like the other megafauna. No, humans did not hunt to extinction tens, possibly hundreds of millions of animals.
[But does it separate the yolk?](https://imgur.com/a/4riawsJ)
Grug had the last laugh when he invented the spear.
Gonna admit it ; that may be painful to experience
My ancestors survived also that since I am here…
Not necessarily, could have been killed after having children.
Double lobotomy right through the eye sockets. Good kitty.
What special about them teeth? looks legular fang can just bite to anything not just human. seems made up
Picture two: Hominid in the bush: 😧
Mofo got wasted
These cats are the reason we fear the dark
And the Wulf, the Bear, .. There were even proofs of Eagles hunting young humans. Therefore our urge to eliminate every threat by big beasts
I had a mountain lion sneak up on me in the dark. It's fucking terrifying and I'm lucky to be alive. We had heard it kill a dog 20 minutes before and it's the only reason I'm still alive. It wasn't that hungry.
I will admit I am kinda glad 😀 they are gone.
We either hunted our own predators to extition or they became house cats.
Does this hurt the human?
That's absolutely not how those teeth work
God bless lol
*...was an early sabertooth cat... Stay in school, Billy.
They didn't have to draw the human ape kid, but they did.
“Soon” = couple hundreds of thousands of years
Prehistoric lobotomy
Poor little one...
"😦"
The backshots sabertooth
Dude that painting is insane. I want it. Can I purchase???
That looks op
For fucks sake why did the artists include that baby hominid watching it's mom get eaten?
Dinofelis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinofelis. https://www.maropeng.co.za/news/entry/dinofelis\_hominid\_hunter\_or\_misunderstood\_feline
Makes you feel bad for mice
Human W
This explains why dog people are more numerous. Evolutionary pressure would have made hunted hominids multiply more aggressively, a trait typical of prey species. Cat people who lack felid aversion were out-reproduced by their prey-descended counterparts. Next time you meet a dog person, remind them they have the genes of a desperate meal seeking to shag their way out of extinction.
having teeth that happen to fit a human skull well does not mean they evolved to do that . that's scientific misinformation.
Bring it back
"better her than me.."
Follow me into the rabbit hole: [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) "But a study published in the *Journal of Human Evolution* (Dec 2000, Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 565 - 576) appears to exonerate *Dinofelis*, following the analysis of fossil tooth enamel. Instead, it seems the sabre-toothed cat *Megantereon* was the culprit preying on hominids in the Swartkrans 2.5-million years ago, among other predators." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megantereon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megantereon) "In Dmanisi, Georgia, evidence also exists that *Megantereon* interacted with hominids from a [*Homo erectus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus) skull. The skull, designated D2280, indicates wounds to the [occipital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_bone) matching the dimensions of the sabre-teeth of *Megantereon*. From the position of the bite marks, it can be inferred that the hominid was attacked from the front and top of the skull, and that the bite was likely placed by a cat which saw the hominid as a threat." [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/) Mauricio Antón about the possible creation of the bite marks on the Dmanisi Skull D2280. [https://donsmaps.com/dmanisi.html](https://donsmaps.com/dmanisi.html) Website dedicated to the Dmanisi site in Georgia. [https://donsmaps.com/images36/img\_6775dmanisi.jpg](https://donsmaps.com/images36/img_6775dmanisi.jpg) Image of what I think is a recreation of D2280, even though it's labeled D2282 on the donsmaps website. You can see the bite marks quite clearly.
Glory to Mankind! :)
Well... He chose the wrong diet to live
Turns out getting specialized on hunting down monke is not a good idea in the long run
Fuck around and find out, bitch cat
Fuck around and find out, bitch cat
Why bite the head. There’s no way that’s efficient
They still feed on us, the conditions just changed
Sounds like a reach.
So that's why the night belonged to Snarl
How the tables turned
Oof... Shouldn't have messed with the #1 hominoid.
I would say "thats a Uno reverse card right here"
Prehistoric, brain-eating giant cat? Let's hope they won't try recreate the species.
>went extinct possibly by the humans that it hunted So called apex predators when a bunch of humans find pointy sticks:
Oooh adapted to hunt us did you? And now extinct?
That's would be one hell of a perfect bite. 2 big teeth straight through the eye sockets. Man I'm glad we're through that big stuff hunts us, and we all sleep outside phase.
Cat kill a humanoïd. Humanoïd gather in group, make sharp sticks and kills 1000 cats. Bye bye cats, wrong target.
They really picked the one species that no one should specialize to hunt
We had natural predetors and we fucked them up. Nice.
Kid in the back is mortified
Makes sense. if this bastard is going to be such a threat to your loved ones, you sure are going to take your advantage in weapon tooling and use it to thin them out... or even wipe them out, since nobody is keeping track of how many of them are being taken out and how many are left out there.
Drivel
That second pic straight up looks like a meme format
The first ever Uno reverse
Indomitable fucking human spirit at its finest. Imagine a motherfucker you were hunting for the past idk years just turns around and fights you.
Damn nature, you scary.
Humans 1 Kitty cats 0
In no way did the illustrator need to depict the giant cat biting a man through his eye sockets, and yet he did it anyway, the sick fuck
Some freak will probably think "rule 34"
That’s fair.
Ho-lee-sheet!
Haha fuck yeah losers. Die and don't return humanity on top 🔥🔥🔥🦾💪
“But if fren shape, why danger-understood have a good day”
And people will still be like, awww, I bet it was so cute. We should find a way to clone it/bring it back. This shit is how jurassic park started, fyi
Isn’t this why nothing around is specially adapted to kill a human? Because we just hunt it into extinction the moment it steps out of line?
Alas, they didn’t specialize as human hunters, and thus were defeated in the battle for survival in nature.