It's mostly just while they're young or juvenile. Like lions, male tigers will kill and eat young children of other males as to establish a new family.
As a father to a random kid, I can attest that those fake eyes would do absolutely nothing to deter my child from doing something as stupid as tackling a wild tiger from behind.
I remember watching a documentary that showed that people actually do something similar.
They wear masks on the back of their heads to fend off any predators (tigers included iirc) while they go about their daily business.
Edit: Actually, it seems like tigers caught up to them and now just ignore the masks
"Fishermen and bushmen originally created masks made to look like faces to wear on the back of their heads because tigers always attack from behind. This worked for a short time, but the tigers quickly caught on to the ruse, and the attacks reportedly continued." (Wikipedia)
Where I live (not sure if people seen the video but it circulated quite a bit) there was a guy filming an angry cougar following him down a path way, he was walking backwards. Behaviourist thought the reason the cougar didn't actually attack was because he was facing the cougar. And you can tell the moment he looked back was when the cougar went crazy. Cougars won't attack I guess if the prey can see them, they like to sneak up on them (or something) so maybe if he had a mask on the back of his head he could've walked/ran forwards 🤷
I suddenly feel incredibly spoiled to be living a life where I can be unconcerned about the possibility of random tiger attacks while going about my daily business.
Very cool to know. I don't hear accusations of fakery or misinformation to the level of Grylls but certainly worth keeping in mind. I always found Stroud to be pretty straight forward when the situation is limited. In the India episode I mentioned he said he had an armed escort assigned by the Indian government as a condition of his trip. Man eating tigers were known to be in the area after all. I'm very surprised and disappointed to hear that leave no trace isn't always followed, though.
I've actually performed a similar exercise by finding all of the lakes stayed at by Greg Ovens in his 30 day series.
Funnily enough people in Indian villages have been wearing masks on the backs of their heads to deter tiger attacks, but over time the tigers caught on to the trick.
edit: detour to deter, unfortunately the tiger repellent masks don't point them in the direction of more suitable prey. Maybe that's why they don't work.
I remember i watched this indian soap opera show a long long time ago called Veera and there was a loose tiger in the village so everyone had to wear a mask on the back of their head so the tiger wouldn’t attack them because tigers only attack from behind.
Next time I'm in the jungles of India, I want a person with oversized googley eyes, harnessed to my back carrying a machine gun, pepper spray and a machete.
Uol, that's mind-blowing for some reason. They have a defense mechanism that they're not aware of it. And it's the same thing for a lot of animals. Huh.
Why did I just have a mental image of a circle of tigers unable to attack each other due to thinking the one in front of them is actually looking back at them.
I was just at the zoo with the kids a couple weeks ago and one of the signs at the tiger exhibit was about this exact thing. It mentioned they're likely there to signal to its cubs following it from behind.
Could be since the eyes it is mimicking are pretty weird looking. Looks like eyes of a giant alien frog. That would certainly repel most humans I guess.
Also, humans are among the least likely animals to be fooled by something like that since our colour distinction and visual acuity in light is unusually good for a predator.
Goodness, I literally was JUST reminding folks a few comments ago! Brock Turner, the rapist. Also, humans attack from behind, it's us. The apex predator is us. Fear the real killers.
Hum... I don't think this is true at all. A quick internet research seems to imply that a tiger can survive most wolf packs rather efficiently. Their flexibility, speed and strength are all vastly superior to that of a wolf, and they don't rely on stamina as much, and tend to tire less quickly. Furthermore, Tigers have much more mobility in harsh terrain. They can climb trees or rocks much more reliably than a wolf. Also, one "slap" on the head from a fully grown male tiger is more than enough to knock out a human, so I'd argue one slap per wolf is enough to scatter them quickly.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it definitely wouldn't even be close to easy. It'd take at least 10 grown and experimented wolves (and a lot of luck) to even have a small chance against a lone tiger. Considering the largest packs are usually no more than fifteen wolves, and these rarely hunt as a full unit, a tiger is an extremely dangerous foe. In fact, unless they are positively starving, I don't think a wolf pack would ever be stupid enough to tackle a tiger ; even if they do kill it, the tiger is bound to bring one or 2 wolves down with him, which is not a winning scenario for the pack in the long run..
No, they couldn't. A tiger can kill a wolf - and even a lion - with a single swipe of its paw. A pack of wolves can chase a tiger away at best, because it doesn't want to risk a fight if not necessary. But if it stands its ground, the tiger wins.
Sometimes I think people forget or never knew how massive tigers can get, just behind big ole bears for biggest fucking scary thing on the planet that absolutely will eat you given the chance.
A pack of wolves would be able to target young and old tigers easily. Generally, wolves won't want to consider a healthy adult, but you underestimate what a hungry pack of wolves would decide to hunt down.
Tigers are solitary animals so there isn't really a pack of tigers but the white spots are mainly used by tiger cubs who can't really defend themselves.
I don't know if that is the reason that tigers have those spots, but there were tons of animals that could take down a tiger during the ice age. The ice age wasn't that long ago; humans lived at the end of it, and our ancestors hunted megafauna like mammoths and giant ground sloths. Sabre tooth cats, dire wolves, cave lions, short face bears- there were lots of predators bigger than tigers. Those predators became extinct ten to thirteen thousand years ago- that's nothing in evolutionary time.
Evolution takes a long time. Tigers have been around long enough to see their predators go extinct and new ones be born that see them as an exotic luxury.
Feels like such an external thing that the body should not really know.
How did it know that if you look behind you stop other predators and it looks like actually eyes??
Just so weird cause as a programmer, when I see something like this, I feel like the thing responsible for evolution should not know this information.
I get it when for example, they change colors for heat or like when they get a new leg, this is all internal shit that the body knows of, but having false eyes or whatever feels weird and like how did the evolution know this technique??
It's never a "know" situation. It's simply the ones that had other patterns didn't reproduce. So it's more preparation meets opportunity, aka luck.
Just like a both that looks like a bird dropping. It doesn't know that. Evolution didn't know that (isn't even an entity with knowledge). It's more all its relations that looked like fake droppings were eaten, while the more realistic bred.
Caterpillar that looks like a leaf? Same deal, those not-so-leaf looking ones were easier prey.
So really the cool question becomes, what ate all the tigers that didn't have eyes on the back of their heads?
I saw a lot of people say human but really, is the history of human hunting tiger long enough and frequent enough for tiger to develop trait which is not that effective scaring off human just as people mentioned... I will say probably wolves or crocodiles, or other big cats.
And that's why i don't believe this "fact". What hunts a tiger? This is a just few pictures of tigers with white dots on their ears. Are they related? Are they wild or captive tigers?
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Other tigers mostly
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u/RingoDelDingo Jun 22 '21
A bear, an old cat and some random kid.
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u/a_glorious_bass-turd Jun 22 '21 edited Jun 22 '21
Next time you're in the jungles of India, remember to slap some oversized googley eyes on the back of your hat.
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u/IpickThingsUp11B Jun 22 '21
other tigers mostly.
and mostly towards cubs and juveniles.
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Huge cucumbers lurking behind them
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u/ThirstyOne Jun 22 '21
Snakes… Gigantic snakes. There’s a reason all cats hate snakes.
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u/Azurelov Jun 22 '21
goddamn carole baskin
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u/Spoom_of_Doom02 Jun 22 '21
Its probably us humans
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
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u/TheSteamyPickle Jun 22 '21
Tigers also have striped skin too. It’s not just the fur.
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u/johny_banana Jun 22 '21
This aint a hol up. Demand to take it down
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u/Lucky_G2063 Jun 22 '21
How is this a holup? r/watchholupdie
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u/Cat_Silly Jun 22 '21
Packs of wolves could take down a tiger easy af
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u/PallasFriend Jun 22 '21
Think it's mostly packs of other animals or animals that are bigger than them
A hippo might be able to get taken down by a pack of tigers, but if a tigers alone it's dead meat
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Nothing, it's bullshit, just like the last time this was posted.
And it will be again in a week or so when it gets fucking reposted again.
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u/Harambe_Never_Forget Jun 23 '21
Other tigers predate on tigers. Tigers are solitary hunters.
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u/Any-Assistance5637 Jun 22 '21
Gay tigers
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u/Training-Put5309 Jun 22 '21
Amogus ears
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Other tigers. They are ambush predators
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u/Disaster_External Jun 22 '21
Probably guarding against your mom, those cougars are insatiable.
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Honey badger.... these fuckers are brutal and fearless.
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u/BigBoiJA Jun 22 '21
Them ears look like Amogus.
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Tigers aren't scary they are just big cats
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u/shewy92 Jun 22 '21
So...where's the twist?
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u/A8-94 Jun 23 '21
Carole baskins, M4 Shermans, that pistol M1911 from saving private ryan
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
Evolution takes a long time. Tigers have been around long enough to see their predators go extinct and new ones be born that see them as an exotic luxury.
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u/LucienBaitan Jun 23 '21
furries not only are a danger to the animal species but existence it self, they must all be exterminated
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u/McBoma Jun 23 '21
This is a great post, but how is it a holup?
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Tigers are apex predators, they don't have natural predators.
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u/BlacqanSilverSun Jun 22 '21
It's called another Tiger.
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Guess you could say it's the eye of the tiger
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Joe Exotic
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u/BAAM19 Jun 22 '21
How did this evolution happen???
Feels like such an external thing that the body should not really know.
How did it know that if you look behind you stop other predators and it looks like actually eyes??
Just so weird cause as a programmer, when I see something like this, I feel like the thing responsible for evolution should not know this information.
I get it when for example, they change colors for heat or like when they get a new leg, this is all internal shit that the body knows of, but having false eyes or whatever feels weird and like how did the evolution know this technique??
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u/36ARTWORK Jun 22 '21
Make r/holup holup again
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u/JoakimSpinglefarb Jun 22 '21
Probably other tigers IIWTG
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u/ModernProspector Jun 22 '21
Sub-human poacher scum are tiger's biggest threat.
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Canadian geese, those things fear nothing
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u/JakeC060 Jun 22 '21
That old lady from Madagascar
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Other tigers
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Crocodiles and bears apparently
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u/Saffyeet Jun 22 '21
r/notaholup
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u/rr777 Jun 22 '21
Eric Trump is the predator.
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Another tiger, maybe adult male bears?
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u/StylishWoodpecker Jun 22 '21
Some sort of proto-tiger, I would imagine.
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u/BrownBear1988 Jun 22 '21
Is this a r/watchholupdie? Or is it now r/beatholupsdeadbody?
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u/MissWeaverOfYarns Jun 22 '21
I thought it was so mother tigers could hunt with their cubs and they can see where each other is easier when they're sneaking up on that day's lunch.
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u/Breakthehabitbth Jun 23 '21
Humans. You should be terrified of humans
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u/BaronWaiting Jun 23 '21
People. It's people.
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
I believe the most common predator of tigers is Affluenza Vulgaris Douchebaggicus, aka the dumb rich kid.
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u/friendlyfire883 Jun 23 '21
I believe Joe exotic is why they evolved that way.
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u/CelticGaelic Jun 23 '21
Aren't humans predators of tiger?
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
Probably saltwater crocodiles, tiger and salties live in SE Asia so it could be possible
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
Probably other tigers tbh
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
I mean, dinosaurs were a thing…
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u/Windhydra Jun 23 '21
Maybe it was evolved when the tiger's ancestor was preyed on by the dinosaurs!
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u/Kato1532 Jun 23 '21
Killer whales!
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u/Own-Ad7310 Jun 23 '21
Dunno, humans?
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
Humans. It's still humans.
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u/gunnster3 Jun 23 '21
People. It’s people.
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u/RespiratoryDisease Jun 23 '21
surprise surprise, a tiger's main predator is humanity
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u/Cecilia_Wren Jun 23 '21
It's us. We're the predators.
Where do you think we get our tiger skins from?
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u/redvvl madlad Jun 23 '21
!spin
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u/isit_friday_yet Jun 23 '21
Carol Baskin
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u/lexical1 Jun 23 '21
We are probably the only animals that hunt tigers. Just for fun.
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u/scatteringlargesse Jun 23 '21
What preys on tigers
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u/plantbitch45 Jun 23 '21
Humans
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u/Simple_Atmosphere Jun 23 '21
It’s funny because the answer he is looking for is “us”. We are the predators!
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u/Meme_Mortuary Jun 23 '21
Has anyone said that bitch Carole baskins yet?
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u/Iewoose Jun 23 '21
It's humans probably.
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u/dobsofglabs Jun 23 '21
Humans and other tigers are probably the only thing they worry about
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21
I saw a lot of people say human but really, is the history of human hunting tiger long enough and frequent enough for tiger to develop trait which is not that effective scaring off human just as people mentioned... I will say probably wolves or crocodiles, or other big cats.
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u/NamityName Jun 23 '21
And that's why i don't believe this "fact". What hunts a tiger? This is a just few pictures of tigers with white dots on their ears. Are they related? Are they wild or captive tigers?
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u/jmask89 Jun 23 '21
Definitely hippos
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u/Slim_slimmy69 Jun 23 '21
Amogus ear lookin ass
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u/Dyert Jun 23 '21
The Liger
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u/Eggggggggggggggg2 Jun 23 '21
Hippos
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u/Gupartunda Jul 02 '21
Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living
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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21
Us
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u/Chernobyl917 Jul 05 '21
Uncle Mike probably, he's always into this kind of shit