What are the natural predators of humans? If there are none, why are there none?
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Humans are occasionally eaten by predators such as alligators, crocodiles, big cats, bears, & wolves. It’s rare because we don’t really live *in nature* with the animals that might eat us.
Most of modern humanity is lucky enough to live in communities far enough away from where their prey lives where they aren’t regularly threatened with predation.
[Here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eater#:~:text=However%2C%20all%20three%20cases%20(especially,development%20of%20man%2Deating%20behavior.&text=Most%20reported%20cases%20of%20man,polar%20bears%2C%20and%20large%20crocodilians.) is a wikipedia article about *man-eaters*.
Before the advent of modern tools/weapons/fire basically any carnivore larger than your average human was a natural predator. Now, I’d argue that our greatest natural predator are ironically much smaller in the form of bacteria, parasites and viruses. They mutate far quicker than many of our advances in modern medicine and are one of the largest natural killers of the human species as a whole.
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