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10-23-2005, 03:16 PM
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Re: 1 million years ago, who were humans predators?
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do lions even attack people? like people commonly think black bears like eating people but they don't, and grizzly bears only kind of do. [/ QUOTE ] I've read many accounts of lions eating people. I've got several books about tigers and leopards doing it too. I just got done reading some short accounts, in a collection about man-eating animals, of numerous single lions, lion couples, and whole lion packs eating people. Many of them eat a lot of people, too. I read about two of them that in a month ate 44 people.r Sometimes it's because they're old or lame, or because they are on their own, without a pack. This can happen with male lions who are chased out of packs, for instance. One lion that killed a few people actually only had three legs, so he had little choice in prey. Others, though, fully healthy, seem to simply acquire a strong liking for human prey, whether because of the utter easy and lack of danger in hunting them, for the flavor, or both, I guess. 
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#12
10-23-2005, 03:33 PM
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Re: 1 million years ago, who were humans predators?
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do lions even attack people? like people commonly think black bears like eating people but they don't, and grizzly bears only kind of do. [/ QUOTE ] Do a quick search on Google. There are plenty of instances of lion attacks. Every so often they'll rampage and take out 10-20 villagers in the space of a food weeks. This usually only happens when their natural food sources are not available. There are places in India where tigers consider humans as just another food source. It's illegal to hunt tigers in India and the penalties for doing so are severe, so tigers don't have much fear of humans. There's been a few cases of mountain lions killing humans in the western US and Canada. Same with grizzly bears. And polar bears will kill you without a second thought. Basically, if a predatory animal is hungry and is bigger than you -- especially if you're alone, it may try to eat you. To the predator, you're just another walking source of meat. What saved human ancestors millions of years ago was the fact that we travelled in groups, had primitive weapons to defend ourselves with, were more intelligent and could make fire.
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10-23-2005, 03:37 PM
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Re: 1 million years ago, who were humans predators?
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Were there humans 1 million years ago? [/ QUOTE ] Depends how you define human. I think Lucy was like 3 million years ago?
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10-23-2005, 03:39 PM
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Re: 1 million years ago, who were humans predators?
What predators do Chimpanzees deal with?
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10-23-2005, 03:41 PM
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Re: 1 million years ago, who were humans predators?
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Were there humans 1 million years ago? [/ QUOTE ] Not modern humans, but our ancestors. 
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10-23-2005, 03:43 PM
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Re: 1 million years ago, who were humans predators?
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What predators do Chimpanzees deal with? [/ QUOTE ] Man, leopards, baboons, and large snakes.
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10-23-2005, 04:05 PM
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Re: 1 million years ago, who were humans predators?
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people always say "we evolved this way because 1 million years ago humans had to deal with these predators". or something like that. what exactly were those predators humans had to deal with a long time ago? [/ QUOTE ] what do you mean evolved this way? what way? are you talking about intelligence, physique, what?
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