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Humans are now the African savannah’s top predator (www.popsci.com)
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Giraffes, leopards, elephants, and rhinoceroses all were more scared of human voices than lion roars.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 1 year ago

as though we are scarier than lions

We are.

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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