Yes. Also humans are chimps, dogs are wolves and wheat and most citrus fruits don’t even exist.
Or we could accept that the whole idea of a purely genetic phylogeny with each clade bifurcating into two and later bifurcations always having to be grouped together with no regard for ecological pressures or mutation rates or hybridisation as the unhinged ravings of a geneticist (derogative) who has never touched grass, and move on.
Also evolution (common genetic pool) and ecology (common niche, environmental pressures and behaviour).
I believe it’s a European thing. I’ve cried after eating Andhra food (more spicy than most Indian styles) but my stomach doesn’t seem to mind. European visitors get indigestion.
but lions and tigers… guess they were harder to spot among the foliage
Lions live in the savanna and grassland. They can hide among the grass, but they generally hunt by chasing prey in turns until the prey tires. Tigers are ambush predators and excellent at hiding.
Healthy lions and tigers do not hunt humans. They can kill humans pretty easily, but prefer meatier prey. But when they get too old / sick to hunt wild animals, they might hunt humans out of desperation.
Also Asian lions have become used to humans since their protected area has tribal settlements and is surrounded by villages. Local people sometimes feed the lions, and on youtube you can find videos of people even touching them. (This is dangerous, messes with the lions’ ecology and is illegal, but people do it and stopping them now might cause new problems.)
Well at least she wasn’t wearing blue or green.