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

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No shit, we have been for over 2000 years.

[–] [email protected] 24 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

as though we are scarier than lions

We are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

rofl, this is what i came to say.