Timeline for Why are lions the only social cats?
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| Apr 29, 2019 at 11:46 | answer | added | Byron Joel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 19, 2015 at 11:58 | vote | accept | mousomer | ||
| Aug 14, 2015 at 20:39 | answer | added | Sanalphatau | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 9:13 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBiology/status/629581102529781760 | ||
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| Aug 4, 2015 at 9:25 | answer | added | fileunderwater | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 13:51 | comment | added | sergio | Yeah, to me it seems like the perfect excuse we "scientific evolved sapiens" tend to make to masque the obvious which is: "we-don't-know, we-can-make-a-stupid-guess-and-call-it-educated-and-if-its-made-by-some-renowned-author/scientist-it-will-be-professed-as-truth". | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 6:43 | comment | added | mousomer | Well, between @WYSIWYG and Count Ibis, now we do have a glimpse of a direction. Grassland animals form larger herds, so there is a niche for socialized predators. More questions: why are cats unsocial outside Africa? (possible answer: Homo Sapiens?). What is the mechanism forcing large herds on Grasslands? (large, open space) | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 5:26 | comment | added | WYSIWYG | @mousomer It is also very difficult to ascertain what kind of pressure would have selected a socializing trait in lions. This also tends to be speculative. I guess most grassland animals are social, even cheetahs. | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 19:30 | comment | added | Count Iblis | I guess it has to do with the failure of dogs and wolves to be able to take down large prey animals in Africa, so that left the door open for felines like lions and hyenas to collaborate and hunt for big prey animals. | |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 13:05 | comment | added | mousomer | I'm not entirely sure, but the impression I got from reading about felines was the they are mostly solitary. Although there is ample evidence that house cats can socialize: katzen-verstehen.at/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/…, I don't recall seeing material on social organization in other felines other than lions. | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 12:53 | comment | added | Immanuel Weihnachten | Could you elaborate more on your claim that "We know that almost all cats are solitary"? | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 10:19 | comment | added | AliceD♦ | I think biology.stackexchange.com/questions/35532/… is the reverse. That is the sort of question targeting "why haven't all predators evolved poison-slash-high speed running capability-slash-guns-slash-more nonsensical stuff?" This question seems well researched (I have a cat and, oh my, is she solitary!) and seems to make sense. For example, investigations on fossils tends to include the interpretation of geographical grouping (did they form herds?) etc. I vote to leave open. I'm not an evolutionary expert, though. | |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:23 | comment | added | rg255 | Simple answer - it was probably beneficial to them but not other species. This is a duplicate in my opinion biology.stackexchange.com/questions/35532/… | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:22 | comment | added | rg255 | possible duplicate of If a trait would be advantageous to an organism, why hasn't it evolved? | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:12 | comment | added | WYSIWYG | Evolution does not have a reason. It just happens. So any question on "why such or such a thing happened", tends to be purely philosophical. You can edit your question to make it precise and non-phiosophical. For e.g. you can ask if socialization increases the survival probability of lions in the environment that they live in i.e. the savannas. | |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:06 | history | edited | WYSIWYG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:01 | history | asked | mousomer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |