How come Cheetahs DONT EAT humans if we are meat for them?

Question

How come

Answer 1

one, we arent natural prey. two, cheetahs arent that dumb to attack something they don't know. and three, cheetahs often approach you because of they're curiosity.

Answer 2

Cheetahs Eat

Answer 3

I think killing animals and eating them is morally wrong. Whether or not you think animals have rights, one thing that is for sure is that they feel pain. The same pain you would feel if you were to have a spike driven into the back of your head, had your throat slit, or were electrocuted. These slaughter methods are not only crude and painful, but extremely inhumane. This is also true of the living conditions that these animals are forced to endure, sometimes living their entire lives in small and filthy cages and pens barely large enough to turn around in. Very few people are aware of the rapant torture and abuses that these animals are put through, only to be painfully killed at the end. If you don't understand why people become vegetarians, visit a slaughterhouse, or watch a video online. If you can't bring yourself to look, just listen to the sounds. Even if you don't become a vegetarian, you will at least have an understanding of what the animal went through so people can have their KFC or McDonalds. Food product manufacturers train us at a young age to accept the systematic slaughter of hundreds of millions of animals every year for human consumption. They try extrememly hard to distance the food we eat from the actual living, breathing, feeling animals they came from. Processed foods such as hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and fish sticks all try to make our food less identifiable so we don't make the connection, so we view them only as "products". Religious vegetarians avoid eating meat for much of the same reason: compassion towards all living things. After all, isn't that what religion should be about? I'm not trying to convince anyone to be a vegetarian. I'm also not saying you shouldn't be one. All I am saying is that, there is a choice. You don't NEED to eat meat, and "tasting good" is not a justification for death.

Answer 4

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How come Cheetahs DONT EAT humans if we are meat for them?
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Answer 5

Cheetah mostly take down animals smaller than themselves. They aren't terribly aggressive, and finally, they really don't get much opportunity to hunt humans.

In a more broad sense this really isn't that simple of a question to answer. It really depends on the predator in question. The generic "humans are not Predator X's natural prey" basically means herds of humans do not typically roam where this predator hunts. A human is no more a timber wolf's natural prey than a kangaroo is. Humans usually live in ways that keep them safe from predators, so predators don't usually get the opportunities to hunt us. There are of course exceptions:

Step into the ocean and you are towards the bottom of the food chain, but sharks and other ocean predators don't seek out human prey. This is probably because humans are too bony and lack the fat and flesh they want.

Reptiles large enough to kill people, like crocodiles and Komodo dragons will eat anything that makes a good target, including humans.

Any large predator, like bears or lions or tigers can and will eat a human. Really, humans are pathetically easy prey. Barring the carrying of a gun, we can't defend ourselves very well. A large predator that learns humans are easy food is rapidly hunted down and killed here in the US. In other countries, being eaten by tigers is an occupational hazard.

Conversely, I do know certain carrion beetles (don't remember the species) dislike eating human flesh due to the high grease content.

Really, in the predator prey world, humans don’t have some special reprieve. Believe that myth and you may not come back from your next wilderness hike.

Edit: Plus, you have got to take the big picture into account, the where and when and what. You are far less likely to be hurt/killed by a wild animal in North America than you are in Africa. You are far less likely to be attacked by a wild animal today than you were 100 years ago. The simple chance of encountering dangerous animals is less now than it was 50 years ago because we've done so much to destroy natural habitat and kill off large animals because they were a nuisance or had pretty fur.

Also, what's with the tunnel vision focus on predators? Visit Africa and you are far more likely to be killed by a buffalo or hippo than by a lion.

Truly, in the wild, humans have no privileged place.

Answer 6

Superpredators are predators that eat predators, and there are lots of them.

Cheetahs don't usually attack humans because we are a big and uncommon animal to them. Plus, many cheetahs must have died in history trying to eat an armed human, and probably learned to worry. But a hungry one will attack you without thinking twice.

Answer 7

Cheetahs are eating smaller animals. Still I would not go in a place where is a wild cheetah hoping they don't eat humans.

Answer 8

I think a lot of wild animals don't include humans on their menu and I wondered about this myself, like if we were created, we really were supposed to be masters over all the animals and maybe that is our true protection?

Because if you look at almost any wild animal over the average human being, it is like no contest, with their hunting skills and strength, we would have to be about the easiest prey on Earth. No sharp talons, no big fangs, comparitively slow moving. So why won't they eat us unless they have gone "Mad" and become 'man-eaters', they just don't come after us.

If the theory is strictly evolution, then animals not including us on the food chain just does not make sense. We should be right up there next to sloths and turtles.

Answer 9

We are too bulky and would represent to much of a challenge to bring down. A injured Cheetah might attempt to kill a Human in a last ditch effort but a healthy one would know we could possibly injure it.
It is the same reason they will not go for Leopards who are smaller in stature but heavier and a danger.

Answer 10

Cheetahs for some reason do not have a taste for human beings. I guess it's the same things as a human vegeterian or something ;-)

Answer 11

have you realized that most of the predators DONT eat other predators?
LIONS dont EAT cheetah for instance, and shark naturally dont attack human for food, if it does, however, usually they realize their mistakes and let it go....


why?
the key is that most predators that eat meats, naturally, they would only eat herbivores, because they gain energy from them than energy gained from the meat-eaters.

The key is to understand the cycle of energy,
usefull energy would be reduced as they are being eaten....
example: plants have 100% energy, however when the herbivores eat them..... they only gain 10% out of that 100% and when these meat eaters eat these herbivores, they would only gain 1%!!!!!!