I mean we do not have huge beasts like that in my neighborhood.
I am in No Virginia Hubbs and I live in kind of a big park with trails in the woods.
i used to walk on those trails daily (not any more, too busy with daddy) and one time I just strolled right through and saw a grey dog just wandering the trail. My brain did not register.... I actually kind of said "Hi" to the dog and was going to reach out and pet it, but I was about 5 feet away, I stopped saw no collar and then realized it was a 🐺 wolf. 🙄😁
That's certainly what we would expect. But I was thinking of a study done about ten or fifteen years ago that showed four distinct lineages of canids, one of which went to wolves, and the other three of which went to dogs. Each of those lineages, at least of the three dog groups, converged about 12,000 years ago, and all four converged on a common ancestor about 50,000 years ago. On that evidence, it would certainly look more like wolves are descended from dogs, than dogs from wolves.
The stereotype of the domestication event is that some caveman killed the mother wolf, and let his kids raise the puppies. But if the study is correct, then domestication of the dog might be a little more complex than that. The common ancestor was more likely some kind of wolf-dog-jackal creature, neither dog nor wolf as we think of them today, that hung around, and followed, top-level predators like the big cats, to get a share of their kills when they were done. When modern humans spread out over the world about 50,000 years ago as serious big-game hunters in their own right, at the expense of the big cats, the wolf-dogs started following the human bands instead. They were wild and independent, and hung around the fringes of camp like a plague of giant rats, who could snap up food in a heartbeat, or a weak, lone human as well.
12,000 years ago would be the point at which humans learned to store meat beyond consumption in the next few days. From that point, dogs lived with humans only by tolerance as the humans chose to share their food or not. Three lines became domesticated. A fourth broke off to become a top-level predator in its own right.
My thinking anyway. But yes, it will have been a common ancestor, and it will have looked more like a wolf.
the wolf seemed very different. Did not acknowledge my presence and did not make eye contact. That was the big tell. I mean, I could have gone over and knelt down and said, "hey doggie, where are you from? Where is your collar? Are you lost? Where are your servants?" whilst scratching it's neck and patting head.
That might have been awkward. .....or he would have just run off instantly
I doubt dinos are all that fond of popcorn. And really good set binoculars allows one to maintain an appropriate viewing distance, so that's a good idea. As far as shark cages go, its really hard to keep the water in, so I'd just leave my shark at home.
Ok.... them not being fond if popcorn was in my thoughts ,as I discarded ' chicken wings' or ' jerky'
And I'm thinking a brontosaurus is just too suave to do the hip kids thing of a raid. Ok! We'll go without the shark,but with pictures of Jacinda Ardern as close up deterrent...advise?
There's that distance thing. While I agree that a photo of Ms. Ardern would undoubtedly be an effective deterrent, any pic large enough to be clearly observed by the notoriously near-sighted bronto would somewhat traumatizing in and of itself.
The martial arts Barbarian in me approves this message,with this addendum: we don't kill the bronto. No,we save that for raptors etc. We swing up and harness that giant head,slide Don the neck ( like the Flintstones of old!) And then offer it prime vegetables to " do that again!"
it would be a blast, but we would have to ..... have a huge massively gigantic strong as concrete vehicle. I will probably have a dream about this tonight. Driving a huge concrete vehicle with dinos running willy nilly
I am equally amused by this post and the fact that part of me is horrified at the other part of me for laughing at it. Gallows humour with an empathetic soul requires some creative compartmentalization.
I see some commenters are upset because the bad cat is being flippant about a rather horrific mauling and death. “The Kitten Corner” is almost always a flippant comment on some horrific current event. Usually it involves the pharmaceutical industry or government, and the readership enjoys the outrage. I appreciated this post because it puts life in perspective. Humanity is so disconnected from the way nature and life actually works that it is amazing that we’ve survived this long.
Every dark cloud has either a silver lining or a lesson to be learned.
You decide which, but sweet Jesus, let me just throw this out there.
When you are driving through a wild safari park and you get pissed off because your man ate the last pork bun from the box, now is NOT the time to change drivers and teach him a lesson.
Yah, I'm pretty sure you should just bottle up that rage for, say, the parking lot or the drive home.
I do feel sorry for her mom who got killed trying to save this moron; at least she behaved like a proper parent. Unfortunately raising an idiot daughter had its cost.
Something happened the day before we went to Kruger national park in South Africa (there was a notice posted). Someone got out to pose for a picture with sleeping lions beside the road. They became lunch.
Today those are the worst things. But back in the 1970s when those became popular in the U.S. they contained lions, tigers, etc. and idiots got out of their cars all the time and got their asses kicked, which is why these parks are rare in the U.S. today.
"Never get out of the car!"
Apocalypse Meow....
Omg! I feel so bad for laughing
Especially if you're on a safari ride.
I'd just bring my mother-in-law on the safari. Then the tiger has no one to blame but himself for getting into that mess.
The Fettermans on safari! Poor Mrs Fetterman.
Yeah it's more likely he ate her vs. a hungry tiger.
You're right, the tiger got a taste and spit her out !
OMG. You're on fire.
Perhaps we could both treat our mothers-in-law to a safari. On the other hand, what do we have against tigers? Nice kitties, at a distance.
you're good Andy!
Thank you sir.
har!!
Mostly peaceful lunch break.
🙌😆💣💥
hahahaha
Just genius
So....carry out?
They should've stayed at the last stop so their kids could feed honey to bears a little longer
Her name was Honey?
Very clever
Tip of the stetson. Thank you ma'am.
So so funny. I guess I have a perverted sense of humor.
Dark humor can be cathartic. It's not like you sent the lady a box with a broken Catnip essential oil in it...
Cat-hartic.... standing ovation for that one!
Someone got my back!! * swoons at Rikard,but in a non-tigris,totally plutonic way *
Oho, avast, lo and behold an such! Non-tigris, that'd make it a Euphrates-swoon then.
I could make a lewd joke about pluto-nic and the styles of canines, but I'll settle for a plu-tonic drink.
Good humour, such a lynxury!
I cat-egorically refuse to consider "lynxury" humorous - but it is clever. So points for that one.
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg that made laugh
bwahahaha
Humans. They're grrrreat!
OMG this thread has a bunch of sick fawkers in it and you are one.
LOL & GROAN at the same time
(snicker)
what the??
they should have just changed seats inside the car. I mean, we have done that, LOL
snow storms, pouring rain, dinosaur raids.
Yeah, but big black cat? Who would have thought? I’m guessing story doesn’t have a happy ending much like double shots and triple boosted
Much like,including bystanders. That tiger certainly was at the right place at the right time ,though... yikes.
well, yes, that... but where was this?
I mean we do not have huge beasts like that in my neighborhood.
I am in No Virginia Hubbs and I live in kind of a big park with trails in the woods.
i used to walk on those trails daily (not any more, too busy with daddy) and one time I just strolled right through and saw a grey dog just wandering the trail. My brain did not register.... I actually kind of said "Hi" to the dog and was going to reach out and pet it, but I was about 5 feet away, I stopped saw no collar and then realized it was a 🐺 wolf. 🙄😁
Wow! Well, genetics say that wolves are descended from dogs. Make of that what you will.
Actually, I think they both rise from a common ancestor that was more like a wolf.
That's certainly what we would expect. But I was thinking of a study done about ten or fifteen years ago that showed four distinct lineages of canids, one of which went to wolves, and the other three of which went to dogs. Each of those lineages, at least of the three dog groups, converged about 12,000 years ago, and all four converged on a common ancestor about 50,000 years ago. On that evidence, it would certainly look more like wolves are descended from dogs, than dogs from wolves.
The stereotype of the domestication event is that some caveman killed the mother wolf, and let his kids raise the puppies. But if the study is correct, then domestication of the dog might be a little more complex than that. The common ancestor was more likely some kind of wolf-dog-jackal creature, neither dog nor wolf as we think of them today, that hung around, and followed, top-level predators like the big cats, to get a share of their kills when they were done. When modern humans spread out over the world about 50,000 years ago as serious big-game hunters in their own right, at the expense of the big cats, the wolf-dogs started following the human bands instead. They were wild and independent, and hung around the fringes of camp like a plague of giant rats, who could snap up food in a heartbeat, or a weak, lone human as well.
12,000 years ago would be the point at which humans learned to store meat beyond consumption in the next few days. From that point, dogs lived with humans only by tolerance as the humans chose to share their food or not. Three lines became domesticated. A fourth broke off to become a top-level predator in its own right.
My thinking anyway. But yes, it will have been a common ancestor, and it will have looked more like a wolf.
the wolf seemed very different. Did not acknowledge my presence and did not make eye contact. That was the big tell. I mean, I could have gone over and knelt down and said, "hey doggie, where are you from? Where is your collar? Are you lost? Where are your servants?" whilst scratching it's neck and patting head.
That might have been awkward. .....or he would have just run off instantly
Neat. It's lucky to have an experience like that. Such a tell on comparative canine psychology.
Was it a puppy? I mean, my experience is that they are huge. One knocked me down once just putting its
paws on my shoulders
So beautiful
I want to go with you to a dinosaur raid...from a distance, please.
Me too! A goodly distance.
What do we bring for a Dino raid viewing? Popcorn and binoculars? A shark cage?
I doubt dinos are all that fond of popcorn. And really good set binoculars allows one to maintain an appropriate viewing distance, so that's a good idea. As far as shark cages go, its really hard to keep the water in, so I'd just leave my shark at home.
Ok.... them not being fond if popcorn was in my thoughts ,as I discarded ' chicken wings' or ' jerky'
And I'm thinking a brontosaurus is just too suave to do the hip kids thing of a raid. Ok! We'll go without the shark,but with pictures of Jacinda Ardern as close up deterrent...advise?
There's that distance thing. While I agree that a photo of Ms. Ardern would undoubtedly be an effective deterrent, any pic large enough to be clearly observed by the notoriously near-sighted bronto would somewhat traumatizing in and of itself.
we could carry the shark on a huge glass cage on top of the concrete massively huge vehicle I will be driving
Well...upon reflection o believe the shark may cause issues of envy: they are dinos thst survived relatively unchanged...while...you know...
50 cal sniper rifle with scope and *plenty* of ammo. Or even better, M2 Heavy Barrel Machine Gun with **plenty** of ammo.
Do it Conan-style: jump atop its head and drive your broadsword through its skull!
The martial arts Barbarian in me approves this message,with this addendum: we don't kill the bronto. No,we save that for raptors etc. We swing up and harness that giant head,slide Don the neck ( like the Flintstones of old!) And then offer it prime vegetables to " do that again!"
that could get messy though. like a water fall of blood. I would be a klutz bucket and slip and fall and sail down the slippery back
yes, bring a couple. I do not have one of those and would be thrilled to give yours a try if you don't mind
Ya beat me to it. I said 50 cal Gatling Gun and lots of ammo. You are obviously a much better shot than I am.
A 50 cal Gatling Gun and lots of ammo would be my first choice.
Not having a Gatlin...I believe I'll save up unpopped corn kernels and somehow improvise a small-bore blow gun.
Don't laugh! My then teen son's friends hid from me during Nerf wars when I used a Nerf blow gun! 😁
I though we had agreed that popcorn was out. Unless, of course, you can figure out a rapid fire blow gun. That might work.
cake, coffee, cookies, guns, bino- dinoculars, maybe a cannon
it would be a blast, but we would have to ..... have a huge massively gigantic strong as concrete vehicle. I will probably have a dream about this tonight. Driving a huge concrete vehicle with dinos running willy nilly
Glad I could be of service 🤣
darwin award applicants
Unnecessary. Someone else fills those out….
I know, right?
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very dark....me likes
I am equally amused by this post and the fact that part of me is horrified at the other part of me for laughing at it. Gallows humour with an empathetic soul requires some creative compartmentalization.
If you don't compartmentalize, you go mad.
Box 1 - I would have absolutely gotten out of the car and bapped the bad kitty to let her go.
Box 2 - I am deeply relieved that the natural world will still not suffer fools, though we often must.
I see some commenters are upset because the bad cat is being flippant about a rather horrific mauling and death. “The Kitten Corner” is almost always a flippant comment on some horrific current event. Usually it involves the pharmaceutical industry or government, and the readership enjoys the outrage. I appreciated this post because it puts life in perspective. Humanity is so disconnected from the way nature and life actually works that it is amazing that we’ve survived this long.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/shocking-footage-shows-woman-being-attacked-and-dragged-away-by-tiger/news-story/d235e25a42107ea3b6366db581458104
I don't care how mad I am, I wouldn't get out of the car. I'd make him get out of the car.
How tragic. I would hope to be like that mom, but I dunno. I'm kind of a scaredy cat.
Every dark cloud has either a silver lining or a lesson to be learned.
You decide which, but sweet Jesus, let me just throw this out there.
When you are driving through a wild safari park and you get pissed off because your man ate the last pork bun from the box, now is NOT the time to change drivers and teach him a lesson.
Yah, I'm pretty sure you should just bottle up that rage for, say, the parking lot or the drive home.
I do feel sorry for her mom who got killed trying to save this moron; at least she behaved like a proper parent. Unfortunately raising an idiot daughter had its cost.
Is that one of those drive through safari parks?
usually the worst things are the monkeys breaking wipers and antenna's
Something happened the day before we went to Kruger national park in South Africa (there was a notice posted). Someone got out to pose for a picture with sleeping lions beside the road. They became lunch.
People do very foolish things and sometimes pay for it with their lives. Kind of like getting vaxxed without doing some research.
nice
Yes. In China. She got out during an argument.
I think there was a similar tragedy at African Lion Safari in southern Ontario (Rockton).
Here's the link someone posted more recently.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/shocking-footage-shows-woman-being-attacked-and-dragged-away-by-tiger/news-story/d235e25a42107ea3b6366db581458104
Today those are the worst things. But back in the 1970s when those became popular in the U.S. they contained lions, tigers, etc. and idiots got out of their cars all the time and got their asses kicked, which is why these parks are rare in the U.S. today.
I shouldn't have laughed. But I did😬
Consider using Helen Reddy's "I am woman hear me roar" as the jingle.
GROAN. OMG, that's 2 of you who've made me groan.
What were you thinking? Bungle in the jungle?
The Lion Sleeps Tonight?
Video quality not great but that looked like a tiger to me. Just throwing that out there.
And, for the record, a tiger is at least twice as scary as a lion.
I imagine they're both pretty scary if they're eating you.
Until you realize that lions are *social* and come in *prides*.
The anti vaxxers told her not to get out of the car but she decided to listen to the “it’s safe and effective” crowd 🤣
Fauci, "America's leading expert on large predatory cats", told her The Science says get out of the car.
It’s safe! Cats are mostly peaceful animals regardless of their size 🤣
Perrfect.👌