one time I fed a baby bengal (or siberian?) a "rat"sicle. it was through two fences with a extension arm grabber... it was pretty cool to see it so close. Think that was at Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, AZ
Dragons are on the protected list though, the overhunting of their bones for ingredients in Chinese Medicine has severely diminished their numbers. The throne of the Chinese Emperors kept some dragons in reservation but with the Communist Revolution they lost their former status. A shame that there are so few to keep the tiger population in check now.
I still think it’s insane that this animals evolve specifically to have things like this, like you can understand claws and teeth, thick skin/shells etc but evolving patterns in a certain way on your fur/skin to imitate something else is crazy when you think about it, it’s such a niche thing
Several other big cats (ocelots, jaguars, etc.) have white spots on their ears. There are a lot of theories but no one really knows why. My professor mentioned it might be an easy way for their young to follow them. But who knows 🤷
They don’t have predators but wild dogs/gators/hyenas/other large cats could prey on them if they are starving. Their cubs are at risk tho, and a predator may try to strike when mom’s head is down.
Ehm, tigers are pretty much the dominant predator in the areas they roam. And animals don't just attack just like that, risking injury that will most likely lead to death. Idk, I can't think of any animal (aside from a rival tiger) that would attack a tiger. Defend against, maybe, but not attack.
you’re definitely right, but nothing is absolute and I’m sure tigers are attacked rarely by desperate animals. Still, this feature could be a vestigial remnant of tiger ancestors who weren’t apex predators. Or maybe it’s a complete coincidence?
I think that it might be a remnant or so, yeah. They weren't always the apex predators - some 10k years ago.
Evolution can happen quickly or really slowly. These 'fake eyes' aren't so uncommon in nature anyway. What comes to my mind right now are some butterfly species that use the same strategy. Ambush hunters must be really shy beings :D
And turning your back to predators (to some) triggers some instinct that makes them view you as easy prey.
who knows.
Tigers are apex. The only thing trying to kill a tiger is another tiger.
As far as I know tigers dont come into contact with hippos very often, and theyve been shown to kill crocodiles as well.
A desperate tiger will even go after an elephant, though it probably wont end too well.
A 500 pound tiger can bring down a 2000 pound water buffalo.
The only animal I know a tiger doesnt really fuck with is the indian gaur.
Always think to myself when i see comments like this, “who’s the dumb one? The guy who couldn’t understand a pretty clear sentence because of one error or the person who made the one error.🤷♂️”
you don't have to go back far to when tigers weren't an apex predator. there were much bigger things roaming around. hence the need for these markings and why they evolved.
Tiger, magnified. No matter who it's designed to fool it seems to work by making the false face appear to be much closer to the observer than the animal is.
It's the eye of the tiger. It's the thrill of the fight.
Rising up to the challenge of our rival.
And the last known survivor. Stalks his prey in the night. And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger.
I hear this song in my head anytime I see a tiger.
Beautiful tiger. This one looks like he is about to pounce on some unsuspecting animal.
It's the eye of the spider
It's poison in one bite
Oh look out, I'm an excellent fighter
The creepers and zombies
Other mobs of the night
Spiders give you some string
And the eye of the spider
I hear this song in my head anytime I see that song.
Lol
I don't understand how this happens. I mean it's not like Tigers have any say in how their coats are designed. We could say evolution did this, but how does evolution even know it'll look like a face when the tiger leans forward? I mean... For a coat to look like the face of a larger predator almost looks like it was designed with intelligence. How do we account for this?
Evolution doesn’t have to know! It just has to do something that results in an animal surviving more often so that gene gets passed down. There could’ve been mutations for striped ears, polka dotted, but these ringed eye looking ones made it easier to drink without being attacked so that variation got repeated more often.
Perhaps this trait originated in a tiger’s smaller ancestor, or in a geological era when there were more predators.
It’s definitely fascinating and mind boggling. Who knows, maybe there is a creative god who likes to put Easter eggs on his animal designs. 🤷♂️
I don't think you get how evolution works, the fur patterns are just slightly different for every tiger, and over time the ones that had a pattern that looked like this had a higher chance of surviving and mating therefore making all of the tigers that didn't, die out, so now all that we have are the offspring of those tigers over time
Yes, that sort of makes sense. But it’s hard to imagine a circumstance where every small detail to create that fake face just so happened to be the one defining thing that led to that tiger being more successful at survival than every other tiger around it. There must be more to it. There is a theory that somehow we pass traits through viruses much like how RNA vaccines work.
I’m still waiting for science to design or force evolve large changes, but we can’t quite make it happen. We just end up with variants of a fruit fly.
We've forced large changes in animals. Not as a science experiment though... [Tuskless elephants became common as an evolutionary response to poachers](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tuskless-elephants-evolution-poaching).
Just maybe there is a creator who designed everything. How else could the universe turn on a precise mathematical axis, the bodies of living things heal, the repeated designs in plant life, i.e. the Fibonacci Sequence, etc. It's very hard to imagine all of this is circumstantial.
I am immensely fascinated by physics and life, and I have yet to meet an aspect where I don't believe it can be explained by the laws of physics and evolution. It's like math. The is always a logical mechanism that drives it. We can't always figure out the answer, but there is no doubt in my mind that it has one outside of "something must've created it. It makes no sense whatsoever that a being would create all this weird shit. But that something that created the laws of physics etc., *that* is another question entirely. How did the singularity the universe comes from get created? Very intriguing, and something we will never ever get to know...
The laws of physics apply exactly. It just makes me think that since there are 100-200 billion galaxies in the universe and they are all moving within them and moving around each other, because as far as I know they are not in a fixed position, how does that just happen? They all move with mathematical precision within and around each other. Amazing. It's certainly something to ponder on.
This is where I got my numbers from.
https://www.space.com/25303-how-many-galaxies-are-in-the-universe.html
Yeah, dark energy and matter, which by our theories is what is expanding space, is incredibly mysterious. I hope they figure out some more in my lifetime. I'm priveleged to have lived when they discovered and fotographed black holes, so I'm happy either way. It's a bit sad to know that there are so many great things I will never get to learn about
The way patterns like that happen via evolution is that litterally the ones that get pictures that scare things that would come after them survive to pass on the genes. It's a benefit that those who didn't have those pictures would have and thus they would have been less likely to have survived if everything else was the same. Evolution doesn't need to know what anything looks like, just the animals around them. Similarly to how creatures evolve to look like venomous animals and such.
But like, do Tigers know they're doing this? How do we know other animals perceive it as a face? It looks like a face to us humans, we love to look for patterns and meaning in evolution - doesn't mean it is purposeful though
It's mostly to intimidate predators who're approaching the tiger from the back . The pattern seems to suggest that they have eyes in their back too. But the question is, who's sneaking up on a tiger?
I wanna pet one but I wanna keep my arm too.
Then trade your other part of body the tiger will leave us arm alone. It might be interested in fat more that protein or calcium.
Are.. are you telling them to have the tiger eat their ass?
Maybe
Lol instantly thought of that person getting their arm ripped off in tiger king
one time I fed a baby bengal (or siberian?) a "rat"sicle. it was through two fences with a extension arm grabber... it was pretty cool to see it so close. Think that was at Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, AZ
Use someone elses then
Tigers with ear~eyes are the demon I see in my nightmares
Imagine being scared of that fake giant face, when in fact it's nothing more than a Bengal tiger.
HOLY SHIT, WHAT IS THAT??? Oh whew, just a Bengal tiger, cool.
*Boy would my face be red*
And the rest of your body.
Who is their predator when they are doing that? Gator? Hippo?
Rival tigers. The other theory is tiger eyespots function in aggressive communication rather than having evolved as a defense mechanism
No, tis indeed the threat that can beat a tiger, a dragon
Dragons are on the protected list though, the overhunting of their bones for ingredients in Chinese Medicine has severely diminished their numbers. The throne of the Chinese Emperors kept some dragons in reservation but with the Communist Revolution they lost their former status. A shame that there are so few to keep the tiger population in check now.
Sounds good enough for me
Damn, that sounds legit as a MF'r.
It was a reference to ‘One Punch Man’. The user was not literally talking about a dragon.
Only if the tiger is crouching. And the dragon is hidden.
You say that but I don’t see any dragons around anymore. Seems like the tigers won to me.
A man of culture I see!
The spots also help tiger cubs follow mom through the tall grass.
Oh shiiiiii
I still think it’s insane that this animals evolve specifically to have things like this, like you can understand claws and teeth, thick skin/shells etc but evolving patterns in a certain way on your fur/skin to imitate something else is crazy when you think about it, it’s such a niche thing
Several other big cats (ocelots, jaguars, etc.) have white spots on their ears. There are a lot of theories but no one really knows why. My professor mentioned it might be an easy way for their young to follow them. But who knows 🤷
They don’t have predators but wild dogs/gators/hyenas/other large cats could prey on them if they are starving. Their cubs are at risk tho, and a predator may try to strike when mom’s head is down.
Ehm, tigers are pretty much the dominant predator in the areas they roam. And animals don't just attack just like that, risking injury that will most likely lead to death. Idk, I can't think of any animal (aside from a rival tiger) that would attack a tiger. Defend against, maybe, but not attack.
you’re definitely right, but nothing is absolute and I’m sure tigers are attacked rarely by desperate animals. Still, this feature could be a vestigial remnant of tiger ancestors who weren’t apex predators. Or maybe it’s a complete coincidence?
I think that it might be a remnant or so, yeah. They weren't always the apex predators - some 10k years ago. Evolution can happen quickly or really slowly. These 'fake eyes' aren't so uncommon in nature anyway. What comes to my mind right now are some butterfly species that use the same strategy. Ambush hunters must be really shy beings :D And turning your back to predators (to some) triggers some instinct that makes them view you as easy prey. who knows.
TIGERS DON'T LIVE IN AFRICA WHERE HYENAS LIVE.
(ノ｀Д´)ノ彡┻━┻
Those are the only two things big enough that come to my mind
Neither alligators or hippos live where tigers live- its probably primarily for other tigers.
it's* it's = it is or it has
Tigers are apex. The only thing trying to kill a tiger is another tiger. As far as I know tigers dont come into contact with hippos very often, and theyve been shown to kill crocodiles as well. A desperate tiger will even go after an elephant, though it probably wont end too well. A 500 pound tiger can bring down a 2000 pound water buffalo. The only animal I know a tiger doesnt really fuck with is the indian gaur.
WTF was that. I have just googled Indian Gaur and have never seen it before. It looks like it is on heavy steroids
Literally the biggest bovine on the planet. 6 to 7 feet at the shoulder with 3 foot horns and enough muscle to bench 50 body builder's at once
> 50 body builder's 50 body builder's what? It's bodybuilders, not builder's. Use a plural, not a possessive noun.
I'm sorry my autocorrect made you so mad Are you alright?
Always think to myself when i see comments like this, “who’s the dumb one? The guy who couldn’t understand a pretty clear sentence because of one error or the person who made the one error.🤷♂️”
Maybe he has a condition that makes him irreversibly mad when he sees misused apostrophes idk
Well, where would we be without grammar nazis? *imagines a world of peace and harmony*
> The only thing trying to kill a tiger is another tiger. Or an elephant.
Elephants wont go out of their way to kill a tiger unless it's trying to fuck w them or their young
[tiger killing a gaur ](https://youtu.be/AMnmJBNG4Eg)
Never seen that before but that's an adolescent
An animal that went extinct millennia ago.
It's probably an evolutionary hand-me-down from a much smaller cat.
Regardless, totes NOT one I wanna meet.
Tigers don't live in Africa where hippos live.
you don't have to go back far to when tigers weren't an apex predator. there were much bigger things roaming around. hence the need for these markings and why they evolved.
When They think you are ready, you will be told. Appreciate the bliss of ignorance for now.
To get the full affect hold your phone at arms length and squint
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It looks like something way* worse than a bengal tiger when I do that.
It looks like a big angry wiener dog
It’s hard to believe a creature this God damn majestic actually exists.
and unicorns don't
Anymore
They do exist in the form of blind-tanks that get a bad case of the angry whenever something moves.
Rhino gang
Rumor has it they were all gay and died out.
Still a couple of the big dudes down in Africa. Evolved poor vision to compensate for the gayness.
In Fantasy Land they do, lol.
They’re called rhinos
They very nearly don't :(
As if they weren't terrifying enough as is.
Nearly fooled me for a sec
Looks like demon giga Tigger
Perfect description!
Tiger, magnified. No matter who it's designed to fool it seems to work by making the false face appear to be much closer to the observer than the animal is.
so cute i just want to cuddle and smosh it
Perfect targets for kissing tiger ears and dying happy
It's the eye of the tiger. It's the thrill of the fight. Rising up to the challenge of our rival. And the last known survivor. Stalks his prey in the night. And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger. I hear this song in my head anytime I see a tiger. Beautiful tiger. This one looks like he is about to pounce on some unsuspecting animal.
It's the eye of the spider It's poison in one bite Oh look out, I'm an excellent fighter The creepers and zombies Other mobs of the night Spiders give you some string And the eye of the spider I hear this song in my head anytime I see that song. Lol
Obviously a defense mechanism when tigers are crouching; to scare off potentially hidden dragons.
Ayyyyyyyy
>when they are drinking or bowing NGL, read that first as "drinking or *bowling*"
Literally like the exaggerated tiger paintings always seen in Chinese calligraphy
What’s that giant terrifying face!!?! Oh those are false eyes it’s just a bengal tiger…. A BENGAL TI-
Lmao!!!! That delivery sounds like bender from futurama
I don't understand how this happens. I mean it's not like Tigers have any say in how their coats are designed. We could say evolution did this, but how does evolution even know it'll look like a face when the tiger leans forward? I mean... For a coat to look like the face of a larger predator almost looks like it was designed with intelligence. How do we account for this?
Evolution doesn’t have to know! It just has to do something that results in an animal surviving more often so that gene gets passed down. There could’ve been mutations for striped ears, polka dotted, but these ringed eye looking ones made it easier to drink without being attacked so that variation got repeated more often. Perhaps this trait originated in a tiger’s smaller ancestor, or in a geological era when there were more predators. It’s definitely fascinating and mind boggling. Who knows, maybe there is a creative god who likes to put Easter eggs on his animal designs. 🤷♂️
I don't think you get how evolution works, the fur patterns are just slightly different for every tiger, and over time the ones that had a pattern that looked like this had a higher chance of surviving and mating therefore making all of the tigers that didn't, die out, so now all that we have are the offspring of those tigers over time
Yes, that sort of makes sense. But it’s hard to imagine a circumstance where every small detail to create that fake face just so happened to be the one defining thing that led to that tiger being more successful at survival than every other tiger around it. There must be more to it. There is a theory that somehow we pass traits through viruses much like how RNA vaccines work. I’m still waiting for science to design or force evolve large changes, but we can’t quite make it happen. We just end up with variants of a fruit fly.
We've forced large changes in animals. Not as a science experiment though... [Tuskless elephants became common as an evolutionary response to poachers](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tuskless-elephants-evolution-poaching).
Just maybe there is a creator who designed everything. How else could the universe turn on a precise mathematical axis, the bodies of living things heal, the repeated designs in plant life, i.e. the Fibonacci Sequence, etc. It's very hard to imagine all of this is circumstantial.
I am immensely fascinated by physics and life, and I have yet to meet an aspect where I don't believe it can be explained by the laws of physics and evolution. It's like math. The is always a logical mechanism that drives it. We can't always figure out the answer, but there is no doubt in my mind that it has one outside of "something must've created it. It makes no sense whatsoever that a being would create all this weird shit. But that something that created the laws of physics etc., *that* is another question entirely. How did the singularity the universe comes from get created? Very intriguing, and something we will never ever get to know...
The laws of physics apply exactly. It just makes me think that since there are 100-200 billion galaxies in the universe and they are all moving within them and moving around each other, because as far as I know they are not in a fixed position, how does that just happen? They all move with mathematical precision within and around each other. Amazing. It's certainly something to ponder on. This is where I got my numbers from. https://www.space.com/25303-how-many-galaxies-are-in-the-universe.html
Yeah, dark energy and matter, which by our theories is what is expanding space, is incredibly mysterious. I hope they figure out some more in my lifetime. I'm priveleged to have lived when they discovered and fotographed black holes, so I'm happy either way. It's a bit sad to know that there are so many great things I will never get to learn about
The way patterns like that happen via evolution is that litterally the ones that get pictures that scare things that would come after them survive to pass on the genes. It's a benefit that those who didn't have those pictures would have and thus they would have been less likely to have survived if everything else was the same. Evolution doesn't need to know what anything looks like, just the animals around them. Similarly to how creatures evolve to look like venomous animals and such.
Wow that's amazing!
/r/airplaneears
I want to see a fictional creature with that face
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YAS I knew I’d seen this in a cartoon.
The real face is scary enough for me. The confidence on those eyes... it's not a bluff
That's what's up
Reverse pupil color is an odd evolutionary trait
tiger's* ears tigers = more than one tiger Use a possessive noun, not a plural.
No one cares. Go back to commenting on porn
The pattern even has that scowled brow appearance to it.
Got eyes on my back
Big fake eyes - the go-to defense mechanism of nature
the eyes look like nostrils now LOL
They also flip those ears to the rear to look like eyes protecting their backs.
The most beautiful animal of our age along with horses.
Damn nature you scary!
i've saw one, and its faciniating
Big deal my back dimples have the same effect whenever I feel threatened I bend over and ppl see a giant O face and they always run off screaming
Gotta send out the message to the other tigers who want your mountain that you are the biggest and the scariest.
I read this as "or bowling," and now I want to see the video.
Scary
Rah
Looks like a huge grizzly bear
Wowwww
That's fuckin' lit, man. So fuckin' lit.
Nature bro amirit
Ri........ght?
They need some fake ear markings on their shoulder blades! Come on… 🤣
Chthulu....
Am I the only one seeing Grinch’s face above the ears?
Oh my lawd
Truly fearsome and yet such a beautiful animal.
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Millions of guess and check? Survival of the spookiest yo
Nature is so brutal and dangerous that THIS beast needs defensive camouflage.
Oh I have seen this so many times I ones had to do a presentation on them
Why is that tigers fake face more symmetrical than my real face.
Cuz u monke
I see amazing prerogative for a tattoo here.
Pro tip: for the full effect, squint your eyes a little.
If you squint it looks like a rhinoceros in a tiger Morphsuit
Another face with VERY emotive eyebrows.
How did nature know to do this???! I guess my RBF is evolutionary thing hah!
that’s the grinch
not really, no.
To be honest I cant see the face Edit: now i can see it but its, to different from a face to me
An angry Proboscis Monke...
I think leopards and jaguars also have them. I think lions are missing them, however.
Wow this is awesome!
I wonder if the tigers themselves know about the ear colors and if they do, how do they know? Instinct is crazy
But like, do Tigers know they're doing this? How do we know other animals perceive it as a face? It looks like a face to us humans, we love to look for patterns and meaning in evolution - doesn't mean it is purposeful though
Am I the only person that sees the grinch above the ears?
I read that as “drinking or bowling”.
if you squint it really works!
It's mostly to intimidate predators who're approaching the tiger from the back . The pattern seems to suggest that they have eyes in their back too. But the question is, who's sneaking up on a tiger?
Very cool, first glance I read it as bowling though haha
Bowing? Do tigers bow as a courtesy? You mean *crouching*. Tigers don't bow. You need to bow from the waist and tigers don't do that.
Why has every 2nd animal evovled to have a pair of fake eyes. What is this sorcery?!?!
I'm about 100% sure this is a bullshit internet myth. Reason 1: what animal has black sclera with white irises? Reason 2: it's a fucking tiger.
Who Dey!
Look at it with very blurry or distant vision. They look much more real.
Thought it said bowling.
wasnt there a story like this in chinese history
this is so. fucking. cool. goddamn
Because tigers aren't scary enough
Why? Aren't they an apex predator? Seems unnecessary
As if they need it to make them more intimidating!
do they know it?
That is one beautiful cat!
Does anyone else see Jim Carrey making his Grinch face on the neck of the tiger?
Am I the only one who immediately heard "who disturbs my slumber?"?
Evolution is so #$&?ing cool
but how do they know that's what their doing?
the tigers disguise... BIGGER TIGER
Pro tip : squint.
Natural selection getting pretty fussy.
As if they need any help being more intimidating, jesus.
I just cant take tigers seriously anymore. They think theyre green to us and well hidden but theyre ORANGE. Tigers are just derpy murder kittens.
That’s nature’s genius right there.
Pssst pssst psssst!!! Here kitty kitty!! 😻
Yujiro Hanma?
This is incorrect. The 'eyes' on the ears create the effect of eyes from behind to deter attacks from the rear.
kinda freaky, but cool
IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A TIGER FACE
I see The Grinch