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gilliam (10/19/2015) [-] Lookie here,
it's a tigah!
They can weigh up to 325 killogrammes, and kill a man in 2 seconds!
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I'm gonna boop some foam on it's head.
it's a tigah!
They can weigh up to 325 killogrammes, and kill a man in 2 seconds!
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I'm gonna boop some foam on it's head.
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thekieran ONLINE (10/20/2015) [-] They essientially are. (As far as you can domesticate a big cat) A Majority of their population exists in private ownership or in preserves. The ones in the wild are dwindling drastically, so the only ones alive soon will be the ones we can protect. The ones in captivity behave very similar to house cats. They are usually gentle and just want pettings, but the problem is, even house cats whack you for no reason sometimes. It's just that when a tiger does it it's a lot more dead-making.
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mutzaki (10/20/2015) [-] Tigers are actually increasing in numbers, though. Both Bengal and Siberian tigers. Not sure about other subspecies. There's the remaining issue of a lack of genetic diversity, but worse cases of near-extinct animals have come back and flourished again. And, no, tigers simply raised in captivity are in no way domesticated. Taming and domesticating are very different things.
Moreover, cats that swipe at you seemingly for no reason will have a reason for it, and they can't be compared with wild animals. You see, most people just assume that cats don't need to be raised. They also don't realize that they usually need to be given a lot of human attention the first couple of weeks of their lives in order to end up enjoying being picked up and such. People take cats for granted, quite simply, and think they're assholes for being a bit defensive after not having been socialized or treated properly.
Large dogs are already huge dangers in the wrong hands, and have been responsible for injuring and killing thousands, if not millions, of people (can also bite people seemingly out of the blue). We even have dog breeds that can reach 100+ kg, and are very capable of accidentally knocking over adults if they're excited. But we write them off as accidents, place blame on bad owners, and consider them big, loveable goofs. The same thing could happen with big cats if ever domesticated. Even if genetic modification has to be used, once it's relevant for such uses.
I believe the ownership of large dog breeds should require a license, quite frankly, and I'd want the same for any other large, potentially harmful pet.
Moreover, cats that swipe at you seemingly for no reason will have a reason for it, and they can't be compared with wild animals. You see, most people just assume that cats don't need to be raised. They also don't realize that they usually need to be given a lot of human attention the first couple of weeks of their lives in order to end up enjoying being picked up and such. People take cats for granted, quite simply, and think they're assholes for being a bit defensive after not having been socialized or treated properly.
Large dogs are already huge dangers in the wrong hands, and have been responsible for injuring and killing thousands, if not millions, of people (can also bite people seemingly out of the blue). We even have dog breeds that can reach 100+ kg, and are very capable of accidentally knocking over adults if they're excited. But we write them off as accidents, place blame on bad owners, and consider them big, loveable goofs. The same thing could happen with big cats if ever domesticated. Even if genetic modification has to be used, once it's relevant for such uses.
I believe the ownership of large dog breeds should require a license, quite frankly, and I'd want the same for any other large, potentially harmful pet.
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slaughprikot (10/20/2015) [-] Whats up with all the 'Tigers and panthers living peacefully with humans' videos lately?
I mean I enjoy them, but there's really a lot of them. did they change their mind? don't they enjoy fresh flesh anymore?
I mean I enjoy them, but there's really a lot of them. did they change their mind? don't they enjoy fresh flesh anymore?
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slaughprikot (10/20/2015) [-] I don't know man, I am reading everywhere that you can't domesticate a tiger, lion or panther...
I'd need some scienceexplain!
I'd need some scienceexplain!
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darthblam (10/20/2015) [-] Probably because most big cats like those are usually the apex predators of their environments. They are perfect solo hunters and **** and don't give a damn about others.
We were able to make dogs through domesticating wolves because of their natural pack mentality. Over the course of hundreds of years we were practically able to imprint the instinct that humans are the natural alphas of the pack.
Or something.
But what do I know. I'm no zoologist/biologist/whateverogist.
We were able to make dogs through domesticating wolves because of their natural pack mentality. Over the course of hundreds of years we were practically able to imprint the instinct that humans are the natural alphas of the pack.
Or something.
But what do I know. I'm no zoologist/biologist/whateverogist.
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sircontagious ONLINE (10/20/2015) [-] Well I'm not science explain but I can shed some light on big cats. They are cats, and cats still behave relatively the same way no matter how large they are. Dogs see us as a pack leader when domesticated, but as wolves, they have to be trained to respect you. Cats see you as retarded cats; they have a tendency to not think of us as prey because we don't behave as though we are scared of them, so, we must be cats. In cat's nature, they are more peaceful to humans so long as the human is peaceful to them. The most common region for death by tiger is in British India in 1870-1910. In those four years tigers killed over 30,000 people, but only in that region. This is because they are not living in captivity, and so they see us as prey because we are scared of them.
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slaughprikot (10/20/2015) [-] Thanks mate,
I'll count that, as well as darthblam's comment, as scienceexplain!
btw, is it the same with house-cats?
and darthblam, an imprint? so instints are genetically programmed, for an imprint there should be a change in the genetics-code, right? is that even possible?!
I guess if, then only through the darwins selection theory.
I'll count that, as well as darthblam's comment, as scienceexplain!
btw, is it the same with house-cats?
and darthblam, an imprint? so instints are genetically programmed, for an imprint there should be a change in the genetics-code, right? is that even possible?!
I guess if, then only through the darwins selection theory.
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sircontagious ONLINE (10/20/2015) [-] In regards to your question for darthblam, look at any dog. Do they look like wolves anymore? No, and the reason for that is selective breeding, which has been around (perhaps unintentionally) for almost 10000 years now from what we can tell based off of human-dog interaction. In the last 100 years, due to our knowledge of selective breeding and how genetics works, there have been more changes to dogs than have been in the past 9900. By not taking care of and not breeding the dogs with traits that we didn't like, the dogs that behaved more subserviently became more common simply because they were bred. Its a sort of forced natural selection due to a specific species, that being the homo-sapiens-sapiens. Humans are weird, we are the first creature on the planet to be able to speed up the natural process by this extreme degree. Who knows what we will do in the next 50 years. Big cats could be household pets.
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slaughprikot (10/20/2015) [-] well, thats a scary thought, but hey, humans are scary!
thanks for clearing it up for me!
thanks for clearing it up for me!
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cubedpixel (10/20/2015) [-] This just gives me proof that tigers are some of the cutest animals on earth when well trained
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sickreality (10/19/2015) [-] then the tigers realize their cats just big ones and chew that dude to pieces for tricking them into a bath!
