Like orcas for example, orcas are viscious psychopathic hunters but never attack humans in the wild. Orcas have high intelligence yes, but I know there's other examples too, like Polar Bears are the only species that actively hunt humans, and lions are naturally scared of humans. How does something like that happen? I get the logic that all the brazen animals who approaches humans gets killed, therefore only the animals who are wary of humans survive, but do they really "teach" their offspring that, or is it something inherent biologicially? Just a question I was thinking about. How does evolution work in the way that it makes certain species wary of other species?
>>16872244>but never attack humans in the wild.That we know of. What if Orcas are smart enough to know an unsuccessful attack could get other humans on their ass, so they wait until they can disappear their victims quietly, like serial killers. What if all those victims mysteriously lost at sea were dragged off their boats by Orcas?
Genetics. Timid animals live longer and so nearly all animals are timid by nature. A lion that tries to hunt all gets squashed by a hippo, surviving lions ran away to eat gazelles instead so lions eat gazelle and fear the hippo. But this can go further than just avoiding the hippo and so most animals 'fear the unknown' aka giant monkeys walking around on two legs making loud noises.
>>16872244Probably because pre-modern humans were literal roving bands of extinction causing psychopaths? I know a lot of people make a lot of hay out of the extinctions happening now due to climate change, but boy did we do a number on some ecosystems during the unga bunga days.
>>16872260Yeah but hippos make sense, they're obviously quite a bit physically superior to lions in terms of strength and durability. It's a bit different with humans who are physically inferior to lions, yet lions often know to stay the fuck away from us.
>>16872272Most fear the unknown and are very risk averse by nature because that's how you excel in a world where one mistake means death. Humans are big, look nothing like regular prey and often in groups. Anything that looks like it might fight back is not worth the risk when easy prey is plentiful. This is also why stuff like bear attacks are almost exclusively when bears are starving, that risk aversion evaporates.
