What are the natural predators of humans? If there are none, why are there none?
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There are none.
People are citing animals that can eat us, but with the exception of crocodiles(that will basically try to eat anything that gets nearby) none of them will hunt humans. The reason for this, is because we don’t share the same environment as those animals, and although, for example, a grizzly bear can easily kill us without any effort, if they never saw a human, they won’t be sure, and won’t take this risk unless they really need to.
Most cases of man-eaters are a mix of the animal being hungry, not being able to hunt their normal prey (e.g. old age), and losing fear of humans (that’s basically what happened to Puma’s behavior on recent years in NA) .
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