“This is a shame. The more we know about these animals the better. People thrashing around in the surf look like seals feeding and swimming. The Great Whites are a risk a swimmer assumes until we find a way to move the seals out. Predators seek food. It’s their job.”
Children playing in a park look like rabbits to the wolves. Wolves are a risk young park goers assume until we find a way to move out the rabbits. Predators seek food. It’s their job.
We had wolves moved out of the west. Azzholes went and paid Canada to get some to bring to the states. Haven’t heard of them attacking children but coyotes do and mountains lions do too. It’s why we hunt them here in the west.
The funny thing though is that predators don’t just seek food, they seek game.
A lot of predators learned to fear man when we culled them. Hunting pressure and death at the hands of man kept most predators wary of man and made them keep their distance.
When we stop hunting predators, they lose their fear of man. We may not be on the food chain, but we quit hunting preedators at our own risk. Doing so makes them lose their fear of man. I’m not saying we need to exterminate entire species, and I’m not saying it works on sharks, but hunting wolves, bears, cougars and the like keeps them wary and fearful of man instead of losing their fear.