https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pre...adaptation
Talking again around campfire when a skunk happened to saunter by. We started throwing around different adaptations prey animals have evolved over millions of years. There seems to be many adaptations that avoid predation but I posed the question as to how many prey organisms , plant or animal, actually try to kill their predator? It's more like "don't eat me, eat those others species over there. "
We thought that some plants can kill a predator with poison but we didn't think that all predators of that plant would be affected. Then someone suggested that some prey may facilitate the death of a predator through a 3rd party. The subject at the time was about plants that either temporarily or completely immobilize a predator for another hunter to possibly take advantage of.
Now I'm not a marijuana user but we were wondering if an early human in the wild for instance, was to chew on the leaves and become incapacitated or unable to defend, would they be more susceptible to predation? Not sure of marijuana's effects on other creatures but there are plants out there that can intoxicate their consumer. The thought was that some plants can indirectly lower the guard of a predator and make them susceptible to a 3rd party hunter.
Talking again around campfire when a skunk happened to saunter by. We started throwing around different adaptations prey animals have evolved over millions of years. There seems to be many adaptations that avoid predation but I posed the question as to how many prey organisms , plant or animal, actually try to kill their predator? It's more like "don't eat me, eat those others species over there. "
We thought that some plants can kill a predator with poison but we didn't think that all predators of that plant would be affected. Then someone suggested that some prey may facilitate the death of a predator through a 3rd party. The subject at the time was about plants that either temporarily or completely immobilize a predator for another hunter to possibly take advantage of.
Now I'm not a marijuana user but we were wondering if an early human in the wild for instance, was to chew on the leaves and become incapacitated or unable to defend, would they be more susceptible to predation? Not sure of marijuana's effects on other creatures but there are plants out there that can intoxicate their consumer. The thought was that some plants can indirectly lower the guard of a predator and make them susceptible to a 3rd party hunter.