Polar bears, sharks, tigers are known to attack humans. But they weren't naturally adapted to eat humans.
Is this a proof that humans are privileged by a creator God?
2007-05-16 23:27:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Any smarter answer than the first two?
2007-05-16 23:32:49 · update #1
Are you kidding here. Try walking through Africa without any weapon and see how far you get. Take a swim in the lakes in Florida and you might end up as lunch. Human are killed everyday by wildlife.
2007-05-16 23:34:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, the animals that you mentioned plus many others are our natural predators. But their kept at bay for the most part. Surely many people have been killed and eaten by any number of animals. Elephants are not predators on humans but will kill us and they often do.
We are privileged as humans to know and understand the danger and therefore to avoid that danger as best we can.
But surely if you or I went in the jungles of Africa or South America we would be viewed as prey, but still humans do have an advantage there because we are not a natural animal to these predators and so they are a little afraid at first for that reason.
There have been tigers in Africa and India that have killed and eaten great numbers of people. Rhinos, Hippos, Elephants, Alligators, Crocodiles, snakes, insects, spiders, sharks, Rays, jelly fish, and others have all killed humans.
We are not considered "natural prey" now because we have wiped out the danger, so to speak. We have pushed the wild animals further and further away from our environment. And, of course, the conditions that the animals are under at any given time will decide if they view us as a food source.
Just for example, would you kill and eat another human? Not naturally, but you might if you were faced with starvation. And these aniamls would do the same thing. It should also be noted that we have no real idea how many times animals have attacked and killed and eaten humans, many people are simply missing. And never heard from again.
2007-05-16 23:57:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human's do not have any natural predators. Obviously there are animals that will attack humans, but the reason for this is to defend their territory, offspring, etc. There are no animals that depend on humans as a source of food (i.e. the definition of a natural predator)
2016-05-20 18:24:23 · answer #3 · answered by felecia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell that to all the people eaten by tigers in India in the last 5 years.
You go unarmed into the Arctic, lets see how long it takes for the polar bears to eat you.
We have killed a large percentage of our natural predators and that was only with the advent of technology
NO another false god argument.
2007-05-16 23:36:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are as adapted to eating humans as they need to be. Anything that will eat a human is a natural predator of humans. It's not much of an issue unless you are floating out in the middle of the ocean and sharks are circling you because we make our environment less than ideal for our predators and we have power in numbers....and guns and traps.
2007-05-18 15:05:07 · answer #5 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says we don't have natural predators?
A lion or even a dog attacks a human being if he is hungry.
I The Netherlands there are more than 3000 attacks from dogs on children every year. And some day ago a dog killed a man.
2007-05-16 23:33:21 · answer #6 · answered by vital_moors 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No.
Top predators do not have natural predators.
The Lion has no predator that specializes in lions. The great white shark has no predator that specializes in great whites. Neither do the killer whales nor the sperm whale.
Humans have evolved past the point where any other animal could successfully specialize on hunting humans. Such a predator would starve to death.
This is evidence of evolution in action.
2007-05-16 23:35:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Speaking as a biologist, I have to disagree with you. Polar bears, sharks and tigers, as predatory omnivores, are adapted to eat anything they can catch, including us, and, when there is no prey, can live on bugs, plants and the like. (not sharks, they can't live on plants, but they can live on sea trash like plankton foam)
We are part of the same set of species-predatory omnivores. They don't have any natural predators either.
Do you see the logical flaw in your question, by the way? the three animals you listed *also* have no animals that are, as you say "naturally adapted" to eat them.
By the logic of your question, that's proof that they are "privileged", and humans are not (since they can eat us, and we can't naturally eat them.)
Edit:Changed pray to prey...hey, it's the religion section.
2007-05-16 23:58:35 · answer #8 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
At one point,humans did,such as tigers.With the advancement of technology due to our intelligence,we moved to the top of the food chain. Evolutionary theory does not state all animals must have a predator
2007-05-16 23:36:07 · answer #9 · answered by nobodinoze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
leave a few human's out in the elements with no modern implements of technology and I'll show you some natural predators. Even more shocking, we are our own predator...
aaahhh! we're flippin' cannibals and just waste the food.
2007-05-17 12:09:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋