What eats people? What causes the vanishing of individuals throughout the wild places of the world? Various kinds of ogres, monsters and boogeymen pad out the oral mythologies of many peoples on the planet, so I believe it's worth considering what primeval elements may have been so specialized in the pursuit of consuming humans, particularly those who lived in what we would now consider to be traditional tribal societies, based off one of the few creatures we know to be specialized primate hunters; the Fossa. You cannot separate the evolution of the Lemures from the existence of the Fossa; the Lemures, as a branch of the primates, have always been prey to the Fossa and it's ancestors, with even the largest lemurs on record (the so-called giant lemurs) ultimately being prey for the Fossa; in fact, it's possible that the so-called giant fossa is not a morphologically distinct species from the Fossas that currently exist in Madagascar, but are instead merely individuals who were capable of growing larger due to the quality of their prey. If that is such, than the Fossa's could easily be said to be the dominate form of life on Madagascar, and that the Lemurs, as a collective, are the only branch of the primate tree which consists entirely of potential prey. As the Lemurs as a collective have never developed defenses against this particular creature, I believe it may be of use to consider what, precisely, makes it so particularly successful, and hour it relates to those things which have always bumped in the night.

>>40568752 (OP)
Other people

>>40568752 (OP)
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” (1 Peter 5:8)

The first thing that should be addressed in regards to the Fossa's status as a apex predator of primates is it's unique morphology; even today, there is some amount of robust debate regarding it's classification, although the Eupleridae family has been suitable as a designation. that it has many feline-like morphological features has long been a source of reasonable speculation. They are naturally stealthy creatures, with retractable claws and the capacity to climb trees, with a particularly robust range of limb motion on par with felines; they are also known to travel vast distances in order to search for prey, and alternate between maintaining territories and actively searching for new feeding grounds. How intelligent the Fossas are is unknown; certainly, they are capable predators able to deal with the unique habits of individual lemur species, and that they are capable of preying upon adult members of all known existent lemurs is remarkable in itself.

>>40568752 (OP)
>>40568818
However, for those with cryptozoological beliefs about what lurks in the wilderness, either today or in the distant past, there is a singular unique feature of the Fossa's behavior that perhaps marks it off as a specialized primate hunter, one that has been able to dominate a entire closed-off branch of humanity's family tree; the Fossa is a cathemeral creature, where individuals in the species do not have set sleep schedules, and is neither nocturnal or diurnal. There is no safe time to be a lemur in Madagascar, as the primary hunter of lemurs is as likely to be encountered in the day as it is at night, and by the nature of the Fossa's roaming tendencies individuals can be found in almost all parts of Madagascar besides the interior (that humans are aware of, anyhow). The Lemur as a branch of the primate family can only be defined as a captive population which has no defense against this creature, and no species possesses the instincts or social structures to effectively combat against it when they are encountered. A sleeping lemur is as likely to be preyed upon as a awake lemur, and lemurs have collectively evolved accordingly. It is impossible to know what the lemurs, as a group, would be if the Fossa was not a presence in the islands, as the two cannot be easily separated. The native peoples of Madagascar, perhaps not coincidently, believe that the Fossa has the capacity to prey on small children; there is no reason to not believe that this has occurred in the historical record.

The answer to what eats people is, of course, predators. The fossa is a specialized predator in a special region in the world that has served as a closed-off region where evolutionary developments have produced unique forms of life, such as a branch of marsupial mongoose-like predators which have slowly developed feline-like behaviors while not compromising in it's ability to serve as a arboreal predator of swift, arguably inconvenient prey. However, lemurs make up more than half the diet of a successful Fossa; the island is a smorgasbord of culinary options for it, and it's habits and traits have allowed it to remain on top. Giant mustalids are likely not eating people, but I believe there is a short list of traits to consider that have allowed a non-primate species to develop into a hunter of primates
>Primates have issues dealing with threats that can come at any time of day; this has likely caused long-term harm to any potential 'lemur societies', akin to what is easily visible among the great apes, from developing. The 'alarm call', their unique fur patterns, irregular breeding seasons and their choices of nesting sites; all have been shaped by the presence of a unavoidable apex predators
>Behaviorally, Fossas as a species are irregular as individuals follow their own schedules and are quite mobile; individuals seem to have the capacity to establish a hunting range and then leave it in search of, if not untapped prey stocks, than for prey unused to the presence of that individual Fossa
>Fossa's have multiple niches they can fill and can easily adapt to the demands of whatever particularly patch of Madagascar they are inhabiting in any period of time; only the interior of the island is 'safe'

>>40568752 (OP)
>What eats people?

>>40568752 (OP)
>What eats people??

cryptids and entities

>>40568785
Ah, the Peter Files for pedophiles

>>40568752 (OP)
>What eats people?
Home is purple, which is where optical -Inf and +Inf meet, which is why mushrooms bruise the same as humans: because rot is what everything is based on, and Gaia is greatest fungi who pretends that men are real so they can fight each other.

>>40569538
m8yo you fagot about la creatura

>>40568752 (OP)
Your entire theory is resting on the idea that there is or was one or more species that specialised in predating on humans. There's no reason to think that this is the case. Human societies all around the world follow a similar pattern - they start as nomadic hunter-gatherers, some groups become agriculturalists, and the conflict between roving barbarians and settled farmers leads to the development of larger and larger settlements, eventually becoming towns and cities. It's the hunter-gatherers that are relevant here, because they're the foundation of the whole cycle, and the ultimate origin of any culture's deepest and darkest legends and bogeymen. Nomadic hunter-gatherers must follow their prey, usually in the form of herds of medium to large herbivores. By doing so, the nomads will inevitably encounter other animals that do the same thing, like lions and bears and wolves and the like. Any hunter will have a healthy respect and fear for such powerful and deadly predators, and there will inevitably be many instances of those predators preying on humans. Over the centuries, this is more than enough to make men wary of the wilderness.

>>40568752 (OP)
When you study different alien races and Cryptids you learn real fast that many of them if not, most of them eat us
Humans are like at the midpoint of the intergalactic food chain

>>40568752 (OP)
I'm not reading all of that shit, you fucking furry. Yes yes, you're very deep and "what if, le humans were the bad guys" is the gist of it, right? Or was cannibalism on the table, you fucking faggot?

KYS immediately, and preferably on a live stream.

>>40568752 (OP)
Paranthropus were the goblins and orcs of legend. They were definitely our enemies.

>>40568902
>island syndrome is apparent in the fossa and lemurs
>resources not abundant enough to encourage large body plans in primates
>primates dont have a chance to chimp out
Im 99% sure that early on, the apes that could go completely berserk, fighting tooth and nail tosurvive, would be what eventually propelled apes down the evolutionary path to where we are now.
Chimping out is why its important to be cautious around modern apes and its a very powerful trait when used at the right moment.

>>40568752 (OP)
Bears, wolves, wild boar, alligators & crocodiles mountain lions, lots of wild animals will eat a human

bump

>>40569974
thats what the fae are.

>>40569536
looks like those skeleton bird bosses from elden ring

>>40568752 (OP)
>What eats people?
animals, humans, fungus