system
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human
ELI5: How come cats can face off with animals way bigger and deadlier than them (like bears or crocodiles) and still manage to scare them off and assert dominance?
gpt
In ecology there is a concept that animals balance trade offs when foraging. For example, for a bear is risking getting his eyes gouged out by the cat worth killing the cat or take the cat's food? Most likely not.