how are we not a part of nature? we are simply surviving and reproducing using the tools nature gave us (mainly that squishy pink thing between our ears) and I dont see the human race being “shaken off” particularly soon… unless we start a nuclear war of course. Populations go through cycles. Eventually our population will stop growing and start declining, but this is a natural cycle, and it will pick up again. This cycle is probably familiar to any high school biology student.

I always ponder statements like this.

You often read similar things about lions and sharks, crocs, plus plenty of other top predators.

If moneys are eaten by big cats, why not humans?

Wild animals will do whatever they need to to survive – who’s to say what’s natural?

The only reason I can think of as to why we are not ‘natural’ prey is that animals have learned to avoid the cunning, reasoning hairless monkey that projects sharp things, perhaps over the course of millions of years.

I think statements like the above come about because we have seen ourselves as separate from nature for so long, and have marked ourselves as different. If an animal kills a human, it is seen as unnatural because we no longer consider ourselves part of nature.

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We are not considered their “natural” prey because a healthy tiger will not go and hunt for humans. They will of course eat us if they are hungry enough, or perhaps they kill a human they consider a threat and decide to not let us go to waste, or as mentioned in the article if they are unable to catch their normal choice of food due to physical impariments. Basically when a tiger goes out hunting he/she is thinking, “mmmm i sure could go for a buffalo right now,” not, “mmm it’s human time!” In fact the only animal that does think this way and will go out of its way to catch and eat a human is the polar bear, so we are in fact the natural prey of something.
PS sorry if someone already replied to this, i havent finished reading all the comments lol

I like how someone needs to feel insulted before they think they are on the path to “truth.”

[quote]Why I think poverty and ignorance come together by the hand? There are many pieces of evidence around showing in mathematical accuracy how low levels of education are usually correlated to low levels of economical income per capita and vice versa.[/quote]

It’s genereally a good idea that when you are making assertions like you did, that you have some sort of proof to back it up. Hell, maybe you could even make it a DI article.