More likely hypothesis: humans evolving alongside certain predators (dogs and cats) has predisposed us on a deep level to finding some predatory traits cute.
I think you’re right that it’s about human aesthetic sensibilities but I doubt it’s related to evolution; doesn’t seem like finding carnivorans “cute” would contribute to reproductive fitness. I would expect the effect to be social in nature.
I guess so, but I’m pretty sure one of the varieties that I think would be not in a forest.
If this logic worked, you’d expect the inverse to occur too. Deer would evolve to look less cute and grotesque, to get eaten less.
Like, maybe it did already. Maybe mammals looked gross as shit to dinos and thats how we got hair.
You call yourself nadir prey, and look like this?
Bears are pretty omnivorous (except polar bears), and things being “cute” is a human construct that neither they nor their prey care about.
