Literature Tidbit

Lions in Africa turned "man eaters" when rinderpest reduced water buffalo and wildebeest populations (Schaller, 1972) despite long knowledge of how dangerous it is to kill man. Naive predators of the New World lacking the long experience of man would be even more likely to do this.


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