Thread:Love Robin/@comment-29997589-20160919042725/@comment-366087-20161004202229

You keep asking why an animal would choose to chase people instead of other things, like the raptors instead of a ready supply of Diplos. Or Spino after killing T-rex. In addition to the previously referenced crocodile which does not like to eat its kills fresh, there is the fact that in the wild, to wild animals, humans are basically defenseless (without weapons) according to how they perceive defenses.

You've heard about how a swimmer in water triggers all the same markers as a fish in distress? To some animals humans have an attractive *odor*. They "smell of fear" same as prey animals in flight. Most humans will run, triggering a *fixation* upon them, especially compared to fleeter animals which can run faster and thus more difficult to catch. Being slower than they are used to, we trigger many a predators' Oddity Effect, the mechanism used to select an odd animal out of a pack or surroundings. We know this as "the Elderly, Sick, and Infirm" which cannot keep up with its herd. And once a predator fixates upon an individual prey they are done, and any which elect to stay with it, like a youngling its parent, they too are killed.

STOP THINING like a human. Learn to think like the animals in question. Learn how the varied animals act.