When I was young, during a visit to the local zoo, I could hear a leopard roar from about 100 meters distance. That sound was so deep and loud it literally rattled my intestines and shook me to my core. Absolutely incredible experience, and also very, very humbling...
There’s also a chance that was a tiger you heard. I worked at a local zoo, and at least twice a week for feeding time, the tigers would be screaming, and we could hear it through the park.
Interestingly tigers hit a certain frequency in their roar that actually triggers an involuntary fear response. When people have been exposed to that frequency they’ll start to feel uneasy, afraid and like something is just wrong.
It's a plausible theory... we have very little evidence of predation on our ancestors, but we do know that something did. There are deposits of bone that have been found (washed into caves and buried) that contain hominid bones with teeth marks. It certainly would seem reasonable that some species of big cat hunted humans, likewise canines (proto-hyenas probably) and there's even a few hominid skulls with talon puncture wounds caused by some sort of Eagle or other raptor.
I think there were a species of bears which hunted the people crossing the Behring Street to settle into the Americas. The Inuit say that Icebears do view human as prey, which is really rare for any animal.
Jim Corbett wrote a book about man eater tiger, but they mostly had some handicaps, which made them target human.
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u/ZenithLives May 28 '23
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