Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard (1923) • Hacker News Board

Re: Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard (1923)

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Post by austinjp » Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 11:50 PM UTC

fasdhaflkhj wrote: post #6

I'm confused. > That done, the antiseptic was pumped into every one of the innumerable tooth wounds until my arm was so full of the liquid that an injection in one drove it out of another Isn't antiseptic applied topically not systemically, as they seem to be doing here by injection, and didn't antibiotics get developed later than this? I can't understand what they were injecting him with. Can anyone fill in my gaps,…

I think it's poetic license + humour. I doubt they were literally pumping/injecting, just dousing his arm generously.

Re: Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard (1923)

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Post by jmnicolas » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 12:18 AM UTC

dTal wrote: post #42

Lordarminius wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Leopards feel pity ? That is absolute nonsense.

It's not implausible. Domesticated cats are widely known to attempt to comfort their distressed humans.

There's a few thousand years of domestication difference between the 2 species though.

Re: Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard (1923)

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Post by jmnicolas » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 12:20 AM UTC

reillyse wrote: post #53

MPSimmons wrote: post #50

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Most humans, if they were hungry enough and in a position to do so, would kill and eat a baby impala, too. But humans can have and feel pity.

Humans do not need to be hungry to kill animals, we imprison and kill animals when we aren't hungry. Our notion of pity is strange.

It's just not the same humans that feel pity and harm animals. There's about 2% of sociopaths among humans IIRC.

Re: Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard (1923)

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Post by dTal » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 8:06 PM UTC

jmnicolas wrote: post #62

dTal wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not implausible. Domesticated cats are widely known to attempt to comfort their distressed humans.

There's a few thousand years of domestication difference between the 2 species though.

In fact the most recent common ancestor of the domestic cat and the leopard lived on the order of 10 million years ago. But in any case, I was not endeavouring to prove that leopards feel pity, only to show that it was not so implausible as to merit such a dismissive response.