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Basically because an animal that has attacked humans once will do it again. Plus it doesn't hurt to reinforce the idea that people aren't food by killing off pr
by eloff 7y ago
Basically because an animal that has attacked humans once will do it again. Plus it doesn't hurt to reinforce the idea that people aren't food by killing off predators that think otherwise. For social animals, the others in the group may learn there are consequences. On an evolutionary level, we cull any genes that may make an animal more likely to consider humans as prey.
- varenc 7y agoRelatedly, here's the case of the two "Tsavo Man-Eater" lions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters It's estimated the pair killed 28-31 humans during a 9-month span in 1898. Several theories suggest that the lions became accustomed to humans by first eating the remains of the deceased before moving on to full out attacks on the living. Amazingly, recent research compared the Δ13C and Nitrogen-15 isotopic signature of the lions with other references and mostly confirmed the above estimate for the number of humans consumed.