Dinosaurs and giant-chin tigers used to be the biggest natural predators of humans, among which the dinosaur mainly fed on baboons, and occasionally hunted and killed the direct ancestor of humans, Australopithecus, and judging from the tooth structure of the dinosaur and the australopithecus that was bitten to death by the dinosaur, it is very likely that they attacked from behind and then used their powerful canine teeth to open the skull of the australopithecus.
However, compared with the dinosaur, the megajawed tiger is the biggest natural enemy of early humans, they have the same body shape as the jaguar, the thick limbs like the lion, the 10 cm long canine teeth and the developed masseter muscles and neck muscles, they were once all over the continent of Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, is the nightmare of primitive humans from the Miocene to the Pleistocene, and is also the natural enemy in the real sense of human evolutionary history, which can be seen from the large number of fossilized human bones and bite marks on the bones near the unearthed giant chined tiger.
However, giant chins do not shoot their heads directly, their thick and pointed canine teeth can be fatal as long as they pierce the human body, especially when biting into the neck, chest and abdomen, which can almost kill primitive humans.
However, with the continuous evolution of human beings, human brains are getting smarter and smarter, thus inventing many tools to assist survival, which makes human beings gradually move towards the top of the food chain, in this process, human beings have gradually improved their ability to hunt large animals, and their resistance to fierce beasts has become stronger and stronger.
So, does human beings have any natural enemies today, and if so, what characteristics does it need to have? Let's explore this interesting question.
Do humans have any natural predators today?
To understand this problem, we must first know the definition of natural enemies, natural enemies do not mean that one animal kills another animal is a natural enemy, natural enemies are the relationship between organisms that restrain each other, which refers to the main harm or prey of another organism in nature, such as cats and mice, tigers killing wild boars, and so on.
It can be seen that it is very important for the relationship between natural enemies to establish the main hazard or predation, so do human beings have any natural enemies today? The answer is yes.
Although human beings are now at the top of the food chain, and human beings have moved away from the wild, there is nothing remarkable about human beings, they are still in the earth's ecological environment, and they belong to one of the members of the earth, so it is difficult to escape the law of mutual restriction of the food chain.
So, who are the natural enemies of humanity today? I think it's mosquitoes, viruses, and humans themselves. First of all, let's talk about human beings themselves, human beings are the most persecutable species of all animals on the earth, wars, killings for various reasons will take 475,000 lives every year, just imagine that there are animals in nature that kill so many of the same kind every year? Industrial pollution, etc., are slowly eroding the earth, making the earth's ecology gradually change, so human beings themselves are the biggest natural enemies of human beings.
Secondly, we say mosquitoes, on the earth, the most human beings are killed every year is mosquitoes, the number is as high as 725,000 people, these people are usually infected with diseases and die after being bitten by mosquitoes carrying some pathogenic bacteria, especially in some areas with relatively low medical standards, mosquitoes are like "little devils" with the sickle of death, ready to harvest people's lives at any time.
Of course, mosquitoes will suck the blood of many animals, which does not seem to meet the definition of natural enemies, but mosquitoes living in the human world, their blood sources are basically humans, so this part of the mosquitoes meets the definition of mainly harming humans, that is to say, mosquitoes are also natural enemies of humans.
Finally, there is the virus, although the virus is very simple, so simple that it does not even have a basic cell structure, and it has no life itself, and it obtains life by combining with other organisms, but the virus has killed more people in history than humans and mosquitoes combined, such as the smallpox virus, plague, Coronaviruses and so on, and some viruses do only spread between humans, which is in line with the main threat, and the definition of viruses themselves is non-cellular organisms, which are also a kind of organisms, so viruses are also one of the natural enemies of humans.
Therefore, humans are still one of the many life forms on Earth, and although they are extremely strong in front of most animals, they are not invincible. Of course, when it comes to animals, only mosquitoes and humans themselves are the natural enemies of humans.
What are the characteristics of human predators?
It is not simple to become the natural enemy of human beings, because today's human beings have pulled the security to a certain level by relying on their smart brains, especially those fierce beasts in nature, they dare not fight the idea of human beings, just imagine, if there is a kind of fierce beast that mainly feeds on human beings, then with modern weapons, human beings only need to erase them from the earth in a very short time, so the natural enemies of human beings must have a characteristic: human beings have no way to take it.
So how can we make the already powerful human beings unable to do anything about it? either there are enough of them, or they are "yin" enough.
The former is like mosquitoes, they have a large number of distribution where there are people, and there are countless people of the same kind who are eager to try it where there are no people, which leads to the fact that even if one day human beings can kill all the mosquitoes in the place where they live, soon the mosquitoes in the wild environment will quickly fill this gap, and human beings want to kill all mosquitoes on the earth, just like killing all the ants on the earth, it is impossible to achieve it from the present, unless human beings ignore water pollution and other organisms, and directly poison them, but this practice is no different from self-destruction。
The latter is like a virus, if an animal evolves, usually silently parasitic in the body of other animals, once it comes into contact with people, it will cause a large-scale spread, and people still can't do anything about it, because people don't even know where it is hiding, they can only passively defend, and it will take advantage of the weakness as soon as it relaxes, which is the "play yin" we mentioned above.
At last
Many people have been carried away by everything and status that human beings have today, thinking that human beings are invincible on the earth and can do whatever they want, but in fact, human beings not only have natural enemies, but also the damage caused by human beings to the earth's ecology will be fed back to human beings themselves, so it should be the direction of our joint efforts to recognize their own position and protect this home on which we live.