I think it would be more important how the person behaved on the encounter.
But it would be difficult to prove. Perhaps we could ask for volunteers for an experiment involving a hungry grizzly bear and a bottle of deodorant.
I didn't mean getting eaten by a wild animal. I doubt that happens so often.
I was talking about African wild animals and reacting differently to westerners due to our smell than Africans who belong in the place. Again based on their smell, which is defined by what they eat, which is African, grown / bred on African soil.
I know from experience -having lived abroad- that makes a huge difference.
Plus these people aren't acidified like we are.
So I was more aiming for them maybe easier getting defensive or aggressive towards westerners than towards Africans.
Not about them looking for the best tasting meal, lol, but being more tolerant or not of having them invading their living space.
I see what you mean :) Maybe it's a percentage thing, 50 50 I you smell different it makes sense that it would cause extra wariness, but if the person was relaxed .... or if the one that smelled right was not relaxed... You see what I'm getting at.
I've had loads of encounters with animals :) By virtue of sitting very still and relaxed somewhere nice and waiting for 10 - 20 minutes. The animals start to appear. Youve got to be fairly still though..
YEs, that makes a difference as well! Especially being afraid is a scent animals can easily pick up on.
And daft behaviour around wild animals is really stupid. yet when you watch those clips on YouTube many tourist do it. Maybe it's nerves. There was one where a huge elephant kept brushing past their open bus and in the end he tried to put its trunk in even.
Another one had a huge lion entering a jeep with tourists!! Totally amazing to see!
The people had to get out, the tour guide told them to, to stand up and get out. But outside were some 3 lionesses too while the lion stayed in the jeep, standing tall.
I believe those were white lions? Although that's almost impossible.
But in many of such clips you hear and see unbelievable nitwit / dumb stuff.
For instance, a couple was hurt by an angry elephant when it attacked their car and poked through it with its trunk. The woman badly hurt in her thigh by that.
BUT... the elephant had given them ample warning to let them know he wasn't happy and gave them several options to drive away with their car. However, the idiots kept going after the elephant, after which it attacked them.
And then the elephant gets shot?
It was a mature male elephant with full tusks (they only showed a few photos btw), so I think that alone was good enough reason to shoot it.
I digress... hihi. But it's so amazing to watch (when it's good clips of course)!!
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SparklingCrystal ππ
on Wed 07/24/19 03:05 PM