Why Some Apex Predators Don't Hunt Humans

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Some of the most powerful apex predators on earth are fully capable of hunting humans, yet they don’t hunt us. In this video, we explore four iconic predators from the deepest oceans to the tallest mountains and learn why these apex predators don’t see humans as prey. With the help of behavior, biology, and decades of research, we reveal how instinct, intelligence, culture, and habitat decide what these animals choose to hunt. Hope you enjoyed it! If you did I would highly appreciate a like on the video. Video/image attributions: “SnowLeopard distribution.jpg” on Wikimedia commons by BhagyaMani under CC BY-SA 4.0 “Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) captive male attracting tourists attention ... (50099919041).jpg“ on Wikimedia Commons by Bernard DUPONT under CC BY-SA 2.0 “Harbor.Porpoise.4.jpg” on Wikimedia Commons by Erik Christensen under CC BY-SA 3.0 “Moby Dick for Wikicommons.jpg” on Wikimedia Commons by Museon under CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/edu-themes-bioluminescence-media-multimedia-giant-squid/ https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/video-shorts-ex2206-shark/ https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/video-shorts-ex1903-squid/ https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/video-playlist-ex1304-greenlandshark/ https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/video-shorts-ex1703-twosquids/ Sources: Anderson, R., Waayers, R., & Knight, A. (2016). Orca behavior and subsequent aggression associated with oceanarium confinement. Animals, 6(8), 49. Santa, A., Kanda, K., Kako, T., Miyajima, M., & Adachi, I. (2024). Matching-to-Sample Task Training of a Killer Whale (Orcinus orca). Animals, 14(6), 821. Scholl, H. J. (2024, October). The Iberian Orca Interaction Crisis: Disentangling Wild Marine and Human Lives—A Call for Managed Co-existence. In International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (pp. 257-275). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://www.newsweek.com/there-no-records-orca-ever-killing-humans-wild-why-1734489 https://www.aol.com/articles/surprising-reason-why-cheetahs-never-153227481.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFzRB2R_0KIDUXloiYZIi1MNISjJDy10z1i9P3zfBAwIrORQQ-Sr8Uv25eTcEDUgjjsDU6oNFPVG2xJ1As9TIZ35inbd26MbqyEQOscyLZc6Waus5lBsMUg_4H-mQ2WuHd_yPm4lhfvkxr4NOE_88pqjf4jKq8dhBDJeq07ogHba https://www.slothconservation.org/blog/sloth-versus-snow-leopard https://www.ifaw.org/international/animals/snow-leopards https://whalescientists.com/can-whales-eat-and-swallow-humans/ https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29209139 https://seahistory.org/sea-history-for-kids/sperm-whales/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_leopard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca