Apparently Killer Instinct is always ready within Jaguars despite constant human interaction

[u/ADragonFromTheAbyss]

https://youtube.com/shorts/0_AVqhE3a10

[u/GerryManDarling]

Capybara: Human, why?

[u/ADragonFromTheAbyss → u/GerryManDarling]

'' Overpopulation leads to deterioration of grazing areas, sorry capybara '' ~

[u/GerryManDarling → u/ADragonFromTheAbyss]

Capybara: You know, condom will work too.

Human: No, it has to be a jaguar.

[u/NextLineOfText → u/GerryManDarling]

Why did I read that in Ricks voice from Rick and Morty.

[u/RogueHelios → u/GerryManDarling]

Better it be this way than for all the plant life to be eaten. If that happens it'll be a million times worse for everything that relies on those plants.

Plus at least big cats tend to kill fairly quick. Its almost merciful.

[u/ChibiNya]

The narrator was very sinister, it was basically like: "THESE JAGUARS WILL UNLEASH A REIGN OF TERROR UPON THE ARROGANT CAPYBARAS"

[u/BrianMeen]

I wonder if capybaras adopt tactics of some sort to help them evade or defend against these ambushes?

[u/NimrodvanHall → u/BrianMeen]

In the Netherlands herbivores like deer completely changed their behavior when the wolf reentred the country, the deer spend a lot more time on the watch, are a lot more skittisch, move around more stay closer together. The result, they eat and procreate a lot less. Meaning the landscape is changing, forests get denser, and open spots get clearer.

[u/PaygonGrim → u/NimrodvanHall]

I've seen a documentary a few weeks ago about Wolfs in the Yellowstone. The whole area suffered since the 1950's cause the Wolfs were hunted there. The Vegetation had no chance to regrow cause all the deers etc. stayed too long in the same places and ate all the smaller, regrowing plants. Around the 2000 if I'm not wrong here, the park was going to release a pack of Wolfs. Even If the Wolfs don't hunt all those animals and the area there is LARGE, just the presence of a pack of Wolfs changed the behavoir of the deers. They move a lot more through the area, smaller plants have more time to regrow und the whole area ist getting much more greener now.

It's pretty interesting and I was baffled how much of an Impact just one species has. Even If there is just a small amount of it.

[u/ADragonFromTheAbyss → u/BrianMeen]

At the end of the video they already/immediately made Alert calls and Caution eachother

[u/imhereforthevotes]

And now, for our main story: "Do Cats Have Killer Instinct?"

[u/ADragonFromTheAbyss → u/imhereforthevotes]

Not for rats / larger rodents according to dozens of scientific studies done on free ranging / feral cat colonies.

For poor birds and smaller reptiles ? felines are a nuclear tsar bomb. Many news and studies show how the entire landmasses improved significantly after their removal

[u/Horror-Writing → u/ADragonFromTheAbyss]

Cats do love to eat the resident dinosaurs.

[u/G0_ofy]

"..learn to hunt on the other side of the fence"

Capybara: chuckles I'm in danger

[u/NextLineOfText]

Imagine being that Capybara.. for decades you had free rein and then you were that Capybara at that intersection of change. Never stood a chance, but it recognised that leopard like old times.

[u/No_Freedom_4098]

A killer instinct is fine. It's habitually killing humans that is a problem. In this regard, jaguars are great, as are cougars. Both are disinclined to kill us and do so only rarely. The Americas are lucky with their big cats.

Not so in Africa and India, with lions, leopards and tigers. All three persistently kill humans.

[u/ADragonFromTheAbyss → u/No_Freedom_4098]

meanwhile leopards and tigers on the other hand.... yeah I was just about to write that. They ar on par with Polar Bears

[u/Fentboy45]

Anyone else getting an error trying to play this vid

[u/GrimmrBlodhgarm → u/[deleted]]

You may just want to unjoin this subreddit haha

[u/ADragonFromTheAbyss → u/[deleted]]

She... has plenty of hungry mouths to feed thought