Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Never turn your back on big cats



Credit: Big Cat Rescue/YouTube

Sharks too:
http://hhg2tech.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/hes-behind-you.html
/ human beings believe top food chain victim victim’s friends friend relative relatives natural order attack attacks aberration aberrations predators’ predator normal behaviour sharks fish mistake mistaken experiment human swimmers seals seal turtles turtle Dr. Erich Ritter Shark Research Institute American charitable foundation attack data prove proof sense shark’s point of view approach would detect detected mistake experiment results publish published Animal Cognition scuba divers kneel seabed site Bahamas reef sharks divers stationary direction travel front kneel kneeling body shapes shape person divers knelt alone back to back pairs pair camera surface 12 metres above recorded record statistics statistician colleague Raid Amin University of West Florida analyse 312 encounters approaching shark passed behind undetected back lion tiger cheetah leopard panther leopard jaguar puma mountain lion stalk chase hunt eat predator predatory predation animals wild instincts video never make good pets big teeth top predator /