Jack London has it about right in his quote from Seawolf. Humans like to think that we are somehow immune to such but it comes as a shock when we become food for something. I think the horror of a shark or bear or tiger attack is in part because we like to think ourselves as that which eats not is eaten. The dread of the term “man-eater” is only from our perspective. To the other we may be looked upon as companion perhaps but also as food. The Tiger who eats a human is only eating prey. What would be truly horrible to the Tiger a “Tiger-eater” as cannibalism is the true perversion.

Perhaps we are not as removed from the cycle of things as we imagine in our denial. JWS