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submitted 11 months ago by jordanlund@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

Giraffes, leopards, elephants, and rhinoceroses all were more scared of human voices than lion roars.

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[-] AlataOrange@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

No shit, we have been for over 2000 years.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

It's less that we are actually predators and more that the animals there react to our voices as though we are scarier than lions.

The video is fascinating.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago

as though we are scarier than lions

We are.

[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

A lion can't shoot you from hundreds of meters away

[-] Swim@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

rofl, this is what i came to say.

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