See: 4th horse of apocalypse
What is also interesting are incidents of critters coming to humans for rescue.
I don’t how common this is, but it has shown up in the news quite a few time recently.
I was expecting something about drones and hellfire missiles.
I carry a gun whenever and wherever I go hiking and backpacking. I’m headed to Shenandoah tomorrow, and I’ll be packing my Glock 19, as usual.
Most of the problem is caused by vastly increasing the numbers of black bears, etc. When we moved to the Poconos in Northeast PA in 1980, there were 2,500 black bears in the entire state. Now there are around 20,000. Another problem, especially here, is summer people, tourists and campers who want to feed the bears - - and then leave the local folks with bears trained to associate people with food. Bears have killed our sheep and goats and this is not the wild west. People commute from here daily to work in NYC. Black bears are killing white tailed deer fawns on a pretty large scale. They get as many or more here than coyotes.
It aint easy getting those Nye Fart Monitors on them sumbitches!
I support the animals over the virulent humans, any day!
As people move into predator territory they should expect to be seen as a food source. That warm and fuzzy image of predators promoted by the entertainment and green industries just doesn’t match real nature. There are reasons the pioneers hunted the predators out of their living areas.