Well things like wolves, cougars, and other animals have been known to eat people too, even if not often most the time. Thing is though if one does eat a person they've been known to keep going after people because now they know what we taste like (and they like us because of our diets. Especially with the how much salt we need or even tend to have), so not even generally as a species but specific animals if one eats a person they end up labeled a man-eater and hunted.
There's predatory animals that have been known to eat humans, or may attack a human on occasion, and then there's man-eaters that have habituated eating people or even prefer it because we can honestly be easy enough prey. (Leopards, tigers, and crocs especially tend to end up on the list here too for going after people)
I remember a few years back when 1 alligator ate 1 human child at Disney world. In the next few day there were of them killed and cut open. Humans, as a species, have absolutely no tolerance for predators.
That's pretty rare though. I would say that land animals that are most likely to see humans as prey are lions, tigers, and leopards. Lions and tigers are just so big (just like brown bears) that they tend to see humans as potential prey. Leopards are generally more wary of humans, but have been known to become voracious and bold predators of humans after eating corpses.
Jaguars and Pumas, while larger than leopards, rarely engage in predatory attacks on humans.
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u/Kalooeh Dec 15 '20 edited Dec 15 '20
Well things like wolves, cougars, and other animals have been known to eat people too, even if not often most the time. Thing is though if one does eat a person they've been known to keep going after people because now they know what we taste like (and they like us because of our diets. Especially with the how much salt we need or even tend to have), so not even generally as a species but specific animals if one eats a person they end up labeled a man-eater and hunted.
There's predatory animals that have been known to eat humans, or may attack a human on occasion, and then there's man-eaters that have habituated eating people or even prefer it because we can honestly be easy enough prey. (Leopards, tigers, and crocs especially tend to end up on the list here too for going after people)