What animal species are man-eaters?

Question

I know that a shark, a lion, or a crocodile won't reject a nice chunk of human meat. But I heard that those usually attack humans because they feel threatened, not because they feel hungry. Is there any animal specie that was designed to eat human beings?

Answer 1

Sharks do not eat humans and can not actually digest humans as the fat content is not what they are adapted to and is extremely rare (never more than 10 fatalities a year) and these are believed to be provoked accientally (or by stupidity) and only a minority of attacks are fatal.
Lions rarely attack humans and are more likely to back be wary of humans and only eat humans as a last resort or if they can not hunt the normal prey through illness or if the animal is threatened.
Polar bears, tigers and the saltwater, nile and mugger crocodiles are known to predate on humans. However only tigers and polar bears actively hunt humans, tigers most commonly so.
In Bangladesh, there is a region known as the the Sunderbans where tigers hunting humans is common but they are not the tigers many source of food in the area.
Crocodiles are responsible for most predatory attacks on humans and consume more people a year than any other carnivore and will see anything they can kill as food but they are not adapted specifically to feed on humans.
Polar bears mainly predate on harp seals and are adapted to that lifestyle, however they will predate on humans but they have no specific adaptation to hunt humans and rarely come into contact.
However animals like hippos and wildebeast are responsible for a great deal of human fatalities to. However large animals rarely lead to death.

Despite what the post below says, blue sharks are not many eaters and their body design is that of a piscivourious shark, it is not designed to attack mammals (it is far to narrow). Although 4 species of shark are considered highly dangerous, no shark can be described as a man eater.

Answer 2

The shark, of which there are only a few species that wold be able to eat a human, would not be a predator on humans. Why? Simple. We humans did not evolve in the same world has the shark. Therefore the shark evolved to eat things more common in it's world, ie penguins and seals. Most sharks eat fish.

The African lion, some tigers, and some species of crocs are known predators on humans. Same logic. When we share a habitat we share predators and prey. There is no doubt the Nile crocs eats people. In fact it will eat just about anything. There are more and more attacks on people by lions and tigers. People just keep intruding in to their habitat.

There has been an increase in America of animal attacks on people. Bears, mountains lions and even sharks attacks are increasing. However, this is not due to these predators adding us to the menu. It is because there are more people and more people intruding in to the woods, mountains and sea.

Answer 3

No animal has been designed to eat people (we would have heard a whole lot more about it and if there was an animal like that, im sure it would be extinct by now) but the only animals that will actively stalk and kill a human are polar bears and tigers. this is not to say that all polar bears and tigers will do this all the time, nor do all of them do this, but some of them sometimes will.

Answer 4

There is NO species that was "designed" (by who?) to eat human beings to the exclusion of other prey. As for lions and crocodiles, none of them have told me that they felt threatened. I'm sure that in a different time, when people were less able to defend themselves, the people wound up on the menu when it came time for chow.

Answer 5

..the famous man eaters of Tsavo featured in the recent movie "The Ghost and the Darkness" and on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago are perhaps a reminder of our ancestors relationship with predators such as lions. Over a period of nine months, these two lions were responsible for the deaths of over 120 people building a railroad in Tsavo in Kenya in 1896.....there are myriad animals that occasionally kill humans...beside the fact that humans eat a lot of different animals, only few animals eat humans!..

Answer 6

Agreed. it particularly is incorrect. The depletion of sharks immediately might nicely be promptly traced back to the launch of a single action picture in 1975, Jaws. merely simply by fact Peter Benchley skipped over to have a splash foresight and insert a disclaimer on the beginning up of the action picture (and the different 3 thereafter) to the effect that this action picture is basically fiction. Any similiarity to any creature, residing or ineffective is basically coincidental wouldve stored hundreds of thousands of sharks. people do those issues out of concern and lack of expertise. I understand that that is impossible to assert for particular in maximum case which guy or woman animal might have killed or harm somebody. in spite of the undeniable fact that that is precisely for that reason that mass cullings ought to never take place. it is nearly a human going out and killing somebody. no you will say for particular which one and killing each physique on that guy or woman's highway. It merely is mindless.Now to the credit of a few, there are places wherein human initiated cullings ought to ensue simply by fact the animals in touch in those have no organic predators in those places and if people didnt do it, they had consume themselves to demise and that they had all land up loss of lifestyles. those I do consider bu t the overpowering majority are merely pointless.

Answer 7

Blue shark
Tiger
other Humans
crocodile

Answer 8

LoL, I like Ronald's answer

But I am pretty sure that humans do not have natural predators.

Answer 9

I want to know who the Designer is, I'm gonna kill him/her before I get eaten.

Answer 10

another human being