Assumptions

Moose 💀

Do you have any data on that? This rando article says otherwise:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-54268160

And the examples given seem to mostly involve dogs which makes me kinda lean towards "It's the human's fault (cause they did not know how to control their dog(s))"

Cows are only that way because we fucked with their DNA…

How do you feel about manatees?

Ooh...or a capybara?

I'd much rather turn a blind corner and find myself standing right in front of a grizzly mother with her cubs than a hippo or a moose.

There's a band of capibaras living in my city... they already killed 2 people.

Good Dinosaur reference?

I live in (not tropical) Australia, so there are practically no animals that are dangerous (camels and big roos might do you harm if you got them at speed in a car)

No lions, tigers, wolves, or bears here. No hippos, no elephants

We have crocodiles way up north, but even they won't go after you if you stay out of the water

Spiders, octopuses, jellyfish and snakes:

Harmful spiders are redbacks (which are the same spider as black widows) and Sydney funnelwebs, neither of which chase you or seek your shoes (do check under the dunny seat for redbacks though, but it's not an issue in indoor toilets). Don't dig up web lined holes with your hands and you won't be bitten by a funnelwebs

The blue ringed octopus is the only dangerous octopus and it tries to keep out of your way. If it is trapped in a small tidal pool don't pick it up and you won't be envenomated

Jellyfish - don't swim in the ocean where there are signs telling you not to swim in the ocean. Box jellies and irukandji are regional and seasonal and the beaches they threaten are well signposted (that's also in the tropics and just south of the tropics)

Snakes - Australian snakes aren't dangerous. They are highly venomous but they don't want to risk tangling with humans; humans eat them, and have for 40,000 years (that's 4 times longer than humans have had bread). Give them room and they'll move off. They pretty much won't bite unless you corner them, try to catch them, or step on them.

In most of Australia you could sleep unprotected, with your food in an esky at your feet

Australian parrots are big on getting hammered on fermenting fruit

Don't kink shame me

I distinctly remember a horse eating a baby chicken.

"Bear hug" is a wrestling move after all.

Most people aren't ever really exposed to nature. You can have a cuddly dairy cow, but that's not universal. Most encounters people have are going to be with animals that are docile and used to human interactions.

Also it is a little counter intuitive at first. Predators will retreat from a fight of it's not worth the effort. Prey doesn't retreat once the fight starts, because it's literally life or death for them.

People are gored by bison at Yellowstone every year. When I visited a few years ago, the rangers were actively having to tell people to avoid an elk who, with his harem, had decided to hang out in Fort Yellowstone for a couple days. People are dumb, or don't think "wow that's a 600+ lb animal the size of a minivan".

Both of them attack. It's just that carnivores treat it as you owe them money.

And herbivores treat it as they owe you money.

...ffs, we only just discovered a new species that had been in the stomach juices of another big lizard...

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Doomers ready with the letter "A":

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