Timeline for What is a realistic size and population for a predator that eats humans?
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| 1 hour ago | answer | added | JJ Ward | timeline score: 0 | |
| 13 hours ago | answer | added | N. Virgo | timeline score: 1 | |
| 13 hours ago | comment | added | aherocalledFrog | "Its habitat is..." Does this predator exclusively eat people? If so, then it's habitat is where the people are, not a specific environment or region. If not, then people just don't go there. That forest is going to be labeled 'Here there be dragons' and only brave fools get eaten. | |
| 14 hours ago | answer | added | Michael Richardson | timeline score: 1 | |
| 20 hours ago | comment | added | Going Durden | your predator population is limited by the human population they pray on, which is severely limited by the lack of agriculture. Realsitically, to go with the Canadian environment, your Dragon_tigers cannot be more numerous than grizzlies would be in pristine, preindustrial Canada, since unlike the grizzlies they only eat humans, while grizzlies consider humans to be a side dish at best. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Zizy Archer | You are describing a bear, back in the day. It just stops growing at some point. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Kevin Kostlan | Forget large animals, mosquitoes are particularly hard to get rid of. | |
| yesterday | history | became hot network question | |||
| yesterday | comment | added | JBH | I agree with @chai_tea. Are you introducing a new apex predator that can out-think (aka "solve problems better") than humanity? Unless a too-small and under-equipped human population is suddenly dropped into the predator's environment (don't have enough time to recover from attacks), the human ability to solve complex problems always wins the predation game. | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Monty Wild♦ | timeline score: 14 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | vinzzz001 | What do you want the population size to be? We can find an explanation for implausible ones. Maybe they hunted another prey before (the reindeer) and humans were an side dish of opportunity, and now that prey is scarce through disease, resulting in more humans being hunted down. Maybe it is a seasonal situation. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | chai_tea | The real challenge will be explaining why a group of human hunters can’t (or won’t) just kill these creatures. Size isn’t an issue; Ancient humans used to hunt mammoths. | |
| yesterday | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 21 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | RLoopy | @datacube they are solitary; I have added that information to the main question. Thanks! | |
| yesterday | history | edited | RLoopy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| yesterday | comment | added | datacube | Do your predators live and hunt alone? Or do they live in families? Pairs? Packs? | |
| yesterday | history | asked | RLoopy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |