ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - D - THE LEOPARD (Panthera pardus)

[parvez]

(11-05-2016, 06:39 PM)brotherbear Wrote:

(11-05-2016, 06:30 PM)parvez Wrote:

(11-05-2016, 05:00 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Two or three years ago, I watched a nature documentary about leopards. This particular program showed leopards of various locations of Africa and Asia. When speaking of the leopards of the tropical African Congo region, the statement was made that of all the creatures of the jungle, the only animal that a leopard fears is the chimpanzee. They went on to say that a troop of chimps can remove a leopard from their territory. 
It is my opinion that when a leopard discovers a lone chimpanzee, the great ape has little chance of survival. But, in mass, the chimps are a force to be reckoned with.

Hi brother bear, man must have been solitary at the time he was struggling for survival during evolution. That must be the time many carnivores must have targeted him as the primates including man were weak bodied comparitively. He became social as the time progressed.

Hi parvez. Our early ancestors could neither outfight nor outrun wild dogs, hyenas, or the big cats. They ( Australopiticus ) had not yet developed weapons. My theory, despite the fact that no one agrees, is that they had an audacious body odor. Perhaps enough that they were not a predators first choice of a meal.

Yes, you may be right brotherbear, even now during long times of insecured feeling, struggling etc. man's body has a strange stinky smell. During similar conditions during evolution the same must be the case. That may be the case why humans may be alive today. Or else they may have been extinct. No one knows the truth as to what happened. Perhaps there were some carnivores that may have killed us for game too like wild dogs i suppose. Reply