Top carnivores increase their kill rates as a response to human-induced fear

Pretty clever comment, made me think if this is the exact same thing as human stress eating.

Same here. Eating or taking a nap are two most effective ways of dealing with stress I found that don't involve any kind of magic pills.

Well, there are a lot of interesting things in the paper. To me, the biggest one is that they could only find this effect in female pumas. Apparently male pumas roam a range approximately 3 times as large as female pumas, and therefore must be much more mobile to maintain their territory - average lingering time at a kill site was estimated to 7 hours shorter (2.86 vs 2.56 days) for males than females in areas with minimal human presence. The suggestion from the authors is that the since males are already under pressure to be mobile, that they were already spending close to the minimal amount of time required at a kill site to extract sufficient energy.

Other things of interest is that we can actually see variance in behavoir increasing as human density increases. The error bars (standard deviation) on time spent at kill sites (or really doing anything) open right up the moment housing appears.

It is something that needs saying and probably repeating at frequent intervals too as it raises the issue of whether there should be no-go areas for humans. This in turn might be problematic in areas where the economic value of large carnivores is defined by the truckloads of tourists chasing them.

Science isn't about taking obvious relationships as fact, it's about using evidence and induction to show support for certain hypotheses over others. The geocentric model of the universe was once "obvious".

Fixed.

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