Posted on 09/17/2025 9:01:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
PinGGG!...............
What do you mean "we" ?
Well, duh. God didn’t create Adam and say, “And, oh yeah, here’s a spear.”
Who thought humans were apex predators? We didn’t come near that status until the bronze age. And without tools we still aren’t. We’ve got no natural weaponry, our senses are for crap so don’t know what’s going on around us, we’re slow, we’re weak. Until we get a 30-30 in our hand we’re hunted.
Heh, heh. Love the one where a cave man throws a spear at a wooly mammoth and misses by about ten feet and his buddies heckle him with taunts of, “Airrrrr spearrrr! Airrrrr spearrrr!”
Leopards still attack humans and kill them.
I’m sure quite a few homo sapiens have been eaten by leopards in our time.
On the morning of May 30, 2025, well-known German businessman and philanthropist Bernd Kebbel was mauled and killed by a lioness at the Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp in Namibia while stepping out of his tent to use the toilet. Despite his friends’ efforts to drive the animal away, Kebbel died at the scene from his injuries.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lion+kills+person+in+namibia
Yes, leopards built the pyramids with their human slaves.
I have read that we have two sides to the brain where one side focuses predation and the other side focuses on avoiding on being preyed upon.
Nobody, anywhere, has ever advanced the theory that humans were ‘apex predators” in the sense that nothing would dare attack a lion.
They find one chimp skull with a few leopard toothmarks and conclude that humans were not invulnerable to predators. Wonder how much this cutting edge analysis cost us?
[[Leopard tooth marks were found on this Homo habilis jawbone.]]
And it was probably a few blind deaf old individuals who couldn’t defend themselves or who got seperated from the tribe- They find one toothmark and declare the leopard the dominate creature? Healthy individuals likely dominated the big cats en mass- but just like today, things can go wrong and a cat can kill a human-
No, it does not. They still only have two individuals. The sample size is far too small to draw any conclusions.
Funny thing, though.
We now have a boatload number more humans running around the world than leopards. More humans than lions, tigers, bears, and cheetahs, leopards, and pandas. More than cave bears, sabre-toothed tigers, short-nose bears, European lions, and other assorted toothed critters.
That one leopard ate one human ancestor several tens of thousands of years ago is not surprising at all.
“The sample size is far too small to draw any conclusions.”
I was thinking the same thing. One needs larger sample sizes, perspective and context to get a bigger picture.
I realize they only have what they were able to find. But they have drawn grandiose conclusions from a small sample. A little more humility may be in order.
Humans still get attacked and eaten by wild animals in today’s world yet we sent men to the moon and destroyed two entire cities with two bombs.
And this is why some of us still don’t trust cats.
The difference was the greater combat ability of homo manilla when acting in groups. One on one, leopards and other big cats were superior predators. Groups of homo manilla could drive groups of big cats from their kills.
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