Throughout history an average wild animal has had the ability to kill an average human being so how did we as a species not only survive but ended up on the top of the food chain?
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Humans are fairly large animals. Like we’re in the top 1% or something. We’re also not that weak. We got a little weaker as we got smarter, we are endurance animals, but its not like animals half our size can push us around. In fact, we learn about unique animals, or animals that allow humans near them, or the animals that are actually a threat, more than we talk and learn about average animals or the most common types in detail. We know all the large African predator groups, but probably don’t know how many types of rat exist, and they’re more common and there are billions of them. So the average person knows more about exceptional animals than average ones.
We can take a predator like coyotes. Scary, big, dogs. There is only like 1 adult recorded to have been killed by coyotes in the wild, in North America. It was an 18 year old women, she was not very large, could pass as a child to a coyote.
In Africa tribes steel kills from Lions. So a humans size is even just large enough to fool a Lion into thinking about it for too long.
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