#humans suck

[theoccultflorist-offical]

guys be nice to wasps what do you have against them anyway?

[brutus-marsh]

I hate humans. Yall fucking suck

[galacticpanda]

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is such a good example of why humanity sucks. They destroyed the world, and even 1000 years later they were still destroying it. Even when they should've joined together to survive they still fought each other. Moral of the story: be nicer to everyone and everything around you.

[ratreekinghavock]

hey yall sorry if I'm a little inactive I got abducted by aliens and had to pretend to be one but now they're trying to find me again, here's the proof that I did pretend to be an alien for a bit

Idk it's lowk better than earth but they don't have enough oxygen for me Sadly 💔

[wolviesdarlin]

All my haters and shitty rude people on my blog can just fuck off.

Me rn fr

[cindylou-who7]

It really hurts when I’m legit over here struggling in maintaining my family and people have seen that and have been trying to scam me

Like, wtf do you get in trying to scam a person who literally doesn’t have funds for food right now??? Huh?? Does that make you feel better about yourself???

Had someone offer to help on here, only to quickly realize it was a scam. How wicked is the world that these people think this is funny???

[nicholasfrog]

“I hate humans.

Not individually. That would be too simple. I hate what they become.

They are a plague that crept into every corner of this world, filling forests with smoke, rivers with poison, and the sky with ash. They consume everything they touch, and when there is nothing left to consume, they turn upon themselves.

That is all they have ever done.

Fight. Kill.

Fight. Kill.

For thousands of years I have watched them. I have watched empires rise with promises of peace, only to forge greater swords. I have watched kingdoms become nations, nations become superpowers, and every generation swore they would be different.

They never are.

They learn.

They invent.

They build.

Not to heal, not to preserve, not to understand.

They build larger bombs. Sharper blades. Faster machines to carry death across oceans. Every century they become cleverer, yet somehow crueler.

Then they breed.

They fill the world with children, only to teach them the same hatred their parents carried. They hand them banners, flags, scriptures, borders, and tell them these things are worth dying for. Worth killing for.

They slaughter one another over the sounds that leave their mouths. Over the colour of their skin. Over which god they whisper to before sleep. Over invisible lines drawn upon maps by men who have long since turned to dust.

And every time, they insist this war will be the last.

I have heard that lie for centuries.

I watched them burn libraries that held the knowledge of ages. I watched them level forests older than memory. I watched species disappear forever because someone desired profit more than life. I watched oceans choke, mountains hollowed, the stars hidden behind the smoke of their ambition.

They take.

They consume.

They destroy.

And when there is nothing left, they wonder why the world has become so empty.

Humans call my kind monsters because we drink blood.

How quaint.

I have killed to survive.

Humanity kills because someone insulted them. Because someone prayed differently. Because someone looked different. Because someone owned something they wanted. Because someone simply existed where they wished they had not.

They have always believed themselves masters of this world.

They are its disease.

And one day, when the rivers have dried, when the forests are silent, when the last bird falls from a poisoned sky and the final child asks why nothing beautiful remains…

They will search for someone to blame.

As they always have.

But by then…

There will be no one left to answer.”

[captaingenerousarbiterstudentblr]

Human hunters are no substitute for vanishing apex predators

Abstract

The global decline of apex predator populations risks the loss of their crucial ecological functions. This raises a pressing yet contentious question: can human hunters, often termed ‘super-predators’, functionally substitute for the complex regulation once provided by their natural counterparts?

To investigate this question, we analysed 30,778 camera-trap records from 400 sites in southwestern China (2017–2021). Using propensity score matching (PSM) to control for environmental heterogeneity, we compared wildlife communities across hunter-dominated, apex predator-dominated, and predator-absent sites.

Our results showed that hunters fail to replicate the collective and individual ecological functions of natural apex predators (dhole, Asian golden cat, and clouded leopard). Apex predator sites supported the highest species richness and abundance, with 33.0% and 32.5% more species and 49.8% and 44.8% greater abundance than hunter-dominated and predator-absent sites, respectively. The prey species–site network was the most robust at apex predator sites and the weakest at hunter-dominated sites, indicating that hunting increases prey vulnerability to cascading extirpations following habitat loss.

Compared with hunter-dominated sites, sites dominated by single-apex predators had distinct species compositions and dominant prey. Prey exhibited prolonged avoidance (up to 2.6 times longer) of hunters compared with any apex predator, coinciding with the weakest network robustness at hunter-dominated sites.

Collectively, our findings provide compelling evidence that human hunters cannot replace apex predators in sustaining biodiversity and promoting stable spatial patterns. Our work therefore strongly supports the conservation of natural apex predators and offers crucial insights for regulating human hunting in ecosystem management.

LINK: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.70306

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