But for many animal rights NGOs, it is the animals that count, not the people, who are often portrayed in hectoring tones as not belonging there in the first place. It is a terrifying, in some ways pre-historic existence that highlights how poverty still makes people prey in the 21st century. They live below what this reviewer has previously termed in this publication “ the faunal poverty line ”.
They risk fatal attack by large predators simply by going about their everyday business of raw survival, such as fishing, fetching water, or guarding crops. That is not the case for people such as the unfortunate Semu. As Adam Hart notes in his excellent and penetrating new book, The Deadly Balance: Predators and People in a Crowded World, Westerners who are attacked by aquatic reptiles, cougars or bears generate the most media attention but are generally involved in recreational activities such as swimming, hiking and enjoying the great outdoors.
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