Wilshire@sh.itjust.works to aww@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 days agoTiger floats with its ballimgur.comvideomessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareBookmeat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoSo this got me thinking. Would carrying a laser pointer save your life if you got attacked by a wild cat (mountain Lion or something) or a bear? Assuming you tried to use it to distract the animal.
minus-squarebetterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days ago (Not a very /c/aww reply) Maybe if you can get it to chase the dot into a running woodchipper but I wouldn’t count on it.
minus-squareEnkrod@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoThat has actually been tested! Big cats notice the laserpointer but they don’t really chase it. Most likely because they don’t hunt insects and small rodents.
minus-squareSylvartas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoSo what you’re saying is that I need a really big laser
So this got me thinking. Would carrying a laser pointer save your life if you got attacked by a wild cat (mountain Lion or something) or a bear? Assuming you tried to use it to distract the animal.
(Not a very /c/aww reply)
Maybe if you can get it to chase the dot into a running woodchipper but I wouldn’t count on it.
That has actually been tested!
Big cats notice the laserpointer but they don’t really chase it. Most likely because they don’t hunt insects and small rodents.
So what you’re saying is that I need a really big laser
Science!