I was looking for black bear videos after @Darthsenio_Mall's recent post and found this lol.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    This made me google the stats for leopards and apparently they kill 55 people a year in Nepal, a rate per capita over 15 times higher than anywhere else for leopards, even in modern times. (The study was from 2001).

    Leopards also killed almost 12 000 people on the Indian subcontinent between 1875 and 1912, apparently one leopard killed over 400 people, wtf is wrong with leopards man.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      wtf is wrong with leopards man

      ikr gotta pump those numbers up.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        They've basically been hunting us for over 6 million years, theres fossils of early hominids in Sub Saharan Africa that were killed by leopards.

        Apparently once they have the taste for human flesh they get addicted to it, and they're used to hunting primates because 80% of their diet is non human primates. Per capita 2 people per million die each year of leopard attacks in Nepal.

        Leopards, brown bears, polar bears, everything wants to kill us in nature.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            They don't even have those animals over there, yet everything still wants to kill them over there.

            Going to start going full :illuminati: about how settler colonialism has fucked up the behaviour of animals or something