More than 1 million years ago, the ancestors of mankind came to live in the open grasslands. They did not have a strong body to resist the beasts, nor did they have a fast running speed, so they became the prey of many beasts. One of these beasts of prey is a cat that particularly prefers to feed on human ancestors. It is called a dread cat, with a shoulder height of about 80 centimeters, a body length of 2 meters, and a weight of about 90 kilograms about the size of a jaguar, which is a medium-sized animal compared to the beasts of the same period!
Don't look at this animal is not large, but it is very capable of surviving, they have been living on the earth for more than 3 million years, and have been found in places such as Asia, Europe and North America. Cats are solitary animals that do not need much food and do not have the ability to hunt large animals. As a result, animals like humans, which are not large and have weak individual combat effectiveness, have become the best hunting objects.
The cat has strong forelimbs and is not as thick as a saber-toothed tiger, so it is speculated that the animals are hunted in pursuit and ambush. Then use the strong forelimbs to throw the prey down, and then use the sharp teeth to bite the throat of the prey, causing it to lose too much blood and die! Most of the time, it hunts in the dimly lit evenings. Attack your prey with excellent night vision and stealth means and drag it back to the nest to eat it.
More than 1 million years ago, human ancestors were difficult to make effective countermeasures to avoid being attacked when facing this animal, so in order to avoid cats, they could only expose themselves to the natural world as little as possible, so they used the cave as their hiding place, and even then there were often cats that sneaked into the cave to prey on human ancestors! In nature, even running on a tree is difficult to escape the pursuit of the cat!
However, the bite force of the cat is not large, so it is wasted after eating, and can only eat a large piece of meat, so the hyena is cheap. However, human ancestors were not vegetarians, and with the improvement of intelligence, various tools made increased the attack power of humans, which can effectively prevent the predation of medium-sized beasts.
Therefore, the fear of cats has gradually reduced the predation of humans.