Humans as Prey: Coping with Large Carnivore Attacks using a Predator-Prey Interaction Perspective

• Main Authors: Penteriani, Vincenzo, Bombieri, Giulia, Fedriani, José María, López-Bao, José Vicente, Garrote, Pedro José, Russo, Luca Francesco, Delgado, María del Mar
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@USU 2017
• Subjects: bear; Canis latrans; Canis lupus; cougar; coyote; grey wolf; human-wildlife conflicts; large carnivores; predation; predator-prey interactions; Puma concolor; Ursus americanus; Ursus arctos horribilis; Ursus maritimus; Behavior and Ethology; Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Public Relations and Advertising; Zoology; Lone; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol11/iss2/10; https://doi.org/10.26077/dpyb-q611; https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/hwi/article/1383/viewcontent/10._Penteriani_et_al_Article_1383.pdf

The number of attacks on humans by large carnivores in North America is increasing. A better understanding the factors triggering such attacks is critical to mitigating the risk of future encounters in landscape where humans and large carnivore co-exist. Since 1955, of the 632 attacks on humans by l...