Im not sure if the title made sense but how babies cry to communicate, did they do that in the like prehistoricy times. Cause I refuse to believe that people who were surrounded by bears, moose, just aggressive/kill you quick wild life, lived with screaming babies around.
*Youre in a mudhut*
Husband- Oh my god theres a bear outside
Wife- What do we do
Baby- WAHHHHHHHH
Husband and Wife- :/
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The world isn’t insanely out to get you.
Predators walk past prey all the time and don’t do a thing.
Lions walk past gazelle, stare at them drinking and eating and do nothing.
Sharks swim past fish all the time, and do nothing.
Predators do *not* want to have a fight. That gets them hurt, and then they struggle to recover. They can’t hunt well if they’re injured.
So predators have lots of things that decide if they’re going to hunt.
1) Is the prey much smaller than them? Hard for a rabbit to hurt a wolf, even if it gets a good bite.
-Humans aren’t small. We’re on the large size. The baby is small, but it’s also never alone.
2) Is the prey isolated? It’s easier to pick on one lone animal than a pack.
-Humans, especially the young children, are usually in packs. And coordinated packs.
3) Is it prey they’ve successfully hunted before? You learn by doing after all. If it hasn’t hunted that animal before they’re very wary to do so. Even small things, like snakes, can kill you. And if you haven’t hunted it, or learned to hunt it you’ll leave it alone unless you really need to takes the risk
-Humanity has a very strong tendency to hunt down any specific predator that has managed to kill a human. Precisely for this reason.
4) Is the prey sick or injured? Most predators take advantage of this, or if possible flat out steal the kill from other animals.
-Humanity tends to care for it’s injured, and put them in homes that are fairly sturdy and near other people. So it’s hard to snag the sick and injured.
So overall, humanity doesn’t really fit the needs of predators.
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