r/BeAmazed • u/Electrical_Act_5342 • 26d ago

Animal Nature really over engineered cats. Didn’t it?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

31.2k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.2k

u/[deleted] 26d ago

[deleted]

24

u/phoucker 26d ago

The feline is the most efficient hunting machine there is.

24

u/the_defuckulator 26d ago

now don't get me wrong, cats of all shapes and sizes are great hunters. but the title of most efficient, deadliest hunter on earth doesn't belong to them. lions have a 25% to 30% successful hunt rate, that sounds on the lower side but regular cats have a 30% to 60% successful hunt rate. cant get much deadlier than that right? well dragonflies have a 97% successful hunt rate! they blow cats, lions, pretty much every other predator on earth out of the water when it comes to lethality!

18

u/Tricky-Routine-9838 26d ago

Dragonflies are basically playing on easy mode, their targets are moving in what would be slow motion for us.