You'd think some predators would've evolved a hunting strategy of enjoyably petting, stroking, tickling etc. their prey to lower their guard. amirite?

My cat loves to lower my guard by letting my pet her and purring for a minute before pouncing on my hands.

There is a spider that hunts other spiders by tickling their webs.

Yea that's called a pet

And some of the some are sexual predators whose techniques are as old as the hills.

nobody wants to kill what they've become attached to.

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but hunger makes us all idiots. I mean we domesticated most of our food long long time ago