Just FTR: water buffalo? Asia, not Africa.
And yes, lion laying around, visibly: risk I can calculate. African buffalo: no way, get the shit away from there. They tend to get up and run, and they don’t care at all of you are in their way. It would just annoy them if you are.
I almost trod on a pair, once.
I was lucky.
Also, hippos.
Never mess with them outside of the water.
Just don’t.
Well, the book is a few years out of date by this point
This video really makes me question cheetahs as an apex predator. They seem to be pretty shitty at hunting considering the prey seems to be way below average IQ and don’t seem like fine physical specimens either.
That’s okay. The window of danger has closed. I appear to have been the last of my kind to inherit the ‘I wonder if I could ride one of those?’ gene.
I get Jurassic Park feelings from that. This laughing person. Deserves to be expelled from zoos for a lifetime.
I think the African beast is called a cape buffalo.
Nah, but one of the zoos that I did rotations through as a student did have this happen:
Big cats are scary.
In a way, they aren’t. But not in the way you think.
They would never try to mess with hyenas, for example. They just leave their prey. But these are well-fed kitties used to humans. They aren’t even after a kill. Their body language said “fuck off”, not “lunchtime”.
I suggest going with African buffalo.
The cape is rather… smallish. Gives you a wrong idea.
The huge variations in prevalence from country to country are one reason why I suspect that the serological data for T. gondii is pretty crap, and the whole parasite / personality line of research is rubbish. Clickbaity, but rubbish.
I feel sad for the poor apices, no environment is safe for them. Anywhere they go, there is something hunting them.
People who capture them and put them in cages must beat least twice as scary.
The average housecat is well fed but will chase and kill mice, birds and bugs. A few years of acclimation to humans is not going to overwrite millions of years in evolution. I would guess that if the toddler had become more separated from his parents he might have been in real trouble, since he is closer to the size of their normal prey.
Came here to say this. Those cheetahs are herding the family out of their territory, not hunting.
Say what now?! That sounds crazy.
The rate of infection is much higher in some parts of Europe than in North America. One reason given is that the French, as an example, tend to eat a lot of rare or raw meat. Most adults show no symptoms, but toxoplasmosis is very dangerous for developing fetuses.
The effects on behaviour in rodents are well documented, but any effect on human behaviour is still speculative. I just thought the idea was amusing, given the context.
That’s not a bad thing to do. But sometimes, people should be held accountable for their actions or lack thereof, even so.
That seems unfair! I’m sorry I can only like it once.
Liked for your empathetic reply to @jtiii’s comment. 
True. Where to draw the line between compassion and accountability is often hard though. (To me an almost daily/ in any case lifelong struggle.) In this case I would forgive myself (and therefore “them”) for freaking out and not doing the right thing. But I’m not a lawyer 
