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Killer crocodiles
that attack without warning.

And great white sharks
that are out for blood.

Since the dawn of civilization,
mankind has known

that wild animals are dangerous,

and if provoked,
they might attack.

But what about when
a deadly predator kills people

not just once
but time and time again?

Is it possible that
some creatures hunt us down

because they actually
have a taste

for human flesh?

Well, that is what
we'll try and find out.

Thousands of workers
have come to this

remote patch of
the African savannah

to build a new railroad
line for the British Empire.

One night, as the men sleep,

they're awakened by
the sound of screaming.

They quickly realize

that a fearsome lion
has crept into the camp

and is attacking
a man in his tent.

A big male
lion entered the tent of a foreman,

seized him by the head, dragged
him out screaming and kicking

into the bush, where, uh, his
remains were found the next day.

And there was
very little left of him.

But his head was left
almost completely intact,

pierced on the sides
by the lion's teeth,

his eyes wide open, frozen
in a look of horror and fear.

The savage
killing of the foreman

marked the beginning
of a vicious murder spree

carried out by not one
but two vicious lions,

who quickly earned the nickname,

the Tsavo Man-Eaters.

The two
man-eaters were particularly large.

They were upwards
of nine feet in length.

We know that these two
lions were both males.

And they don't have
the large iconic manes

that you would expect
of most African lions.

So these lions were
smart. They were patient.

They were able to
effectively hunt their prey,

and if you have the
element of surprise,

humans really can't
do anything about that.

There were 3,000 men
camped along the rail lines,

and that left the
men in tents there

vulnerable to attacks by lions.

The two male lions
descended on railway crews,

and began systematically
hunting, killing

and consuming railway
workers on the edge of this camp.

Of course, the crews
became completely dispirited,

and this sparked panic,

this sparked desperation,
this sparked mass desertion.

It was headline news
back in England at the time,

where in Parliament,
delays in the construction

of the railway were
discussed as being

attributed to these
problematic lions.

News of the
savage attacks carried out

by the Tsavo Man-Eaters
made headlines around the world.

And many began to
wonder why these two lions

were deliberately killing
and eating so many people.

Incidents of man eating
among lions is very unusual.

Lions typically eat zebra,

wildebeest, buffalo,
things that eat grass.

They know their prey very well,
but a man-eating lion must study

the habits of
humans and learn to...

adjust to them in
order to be successful

in their food acquisition.

We don't see
lions attacking and hunting

and trying to go after
people most of the time.

But these two
lions in particular

were sort of committed to
the practice of man eating.

It's possible

that then we became
a preferred food.

On December 9,
1898, nine months after their reign

of terror began, the first
Tsavo lion was shot and killed.

20 days later, the second
lion met the same fate.

But by then, the pair
of man-eaters had

already killed and eaten

an astonishing 135 people.

There's no evidence

that shows that the Tsavo
Man-Eaters were starving.

There was actually
plentiful prey in the area...

Wildebeests,

zebra, gazelles, hippos.

And yet they chose
to eat humans.

It is a very unusual situation.

The Tsavo
Man-Eaters are perhaps the most

infamous lions in history.

Their seemingly insatiable
desire to kill humans

taps into our most primal fears,

and is a reminder that
our ancient ancestors lived

in constant fear of being
attacked by dangerous predators.

Early
on, our ancestors were often

preyed upon because
we don't have giant

claws and armor
and things of that sort.

We've got this big brain
that can help us hopefully

outthink and outcompete
these predators,

but given the right
circumstances,

we're very vulnerable.

We humans like
to think that we're

at the top of the food chain.

But thousands and
thousands of years ago,

we were eaten alive by
almost any and everything.

And what is very
interesting about that is

scientists have
actually shown infants

images of snakes,
images of spiders,

and infants who have never
seen these animals before

will freak out, they'll
show a fear response.

They'll cry. That's
an alarm call.

That is innate. It's in our DNA.

More than a
hundred years after the attacks

by the Tsavo Man-Eaters,

the mystery of what made
these two lions target people

lingers in the public
consciousness.

So much so that their skulls are

on display at the Field
Museum of Natural History

in Chicago, Illinois,

where scientists
continue to study them

in search of clues as to
why they became man-eaters.

And according to
the latest research,

it appears the lions'
murderous rampage

may have ironically
had something to do

with their teeth.

The teeth of
lions, they're used to crack bones

and get the marrow
that's inside them,

and it's quite typical
in lion dentitions to find

missing or broken teeth
associated with this heavy use.

It's not typical, however,
to find dental disease.

Yet, in the case
of the Tsavo lion,

we had a broken
lower right canine

whose pulp cavity was exposed
about a third of an inch across.

That would have been
excruciatingly painful.

This is a cast of the
skull of the first man-eater,

and this is the broken
lower right canine tooth

that ultimately became
diseased and impacted.

This lion would have been
unable to administer the killing bite

that lions use to take
down large, struggling prey.

So we think that the arrival
of the railway workers in camp

happened at
exactly the right time

for this individual lion, that,

as it had become incapable

of taking down buffalo,
it looked on people

with a new eye
and a new appetite.

Did a debilitating
toothache turn the first

Tsavo lion into a man-eater

because humans are softer
prey that were easier to bite?

It's a compelling theory.

But scientists have
verified that the other

Tsavo lion's teeth
were perfectly healthy.

So why did it
join in the killing?

One of the Tsavo
lions had extreme dental issues.

The second lion did not
have those dental injuries.

So why would this lion
go towards humans?

It's because it learned
from the other lion

that humans are an easy target.

Constantly, predators
are-are learning

from success, from failures.

They're learning from others.

They're learning how
to take down prey.

They're learning how to hunt.

And so it's not
surprising to see

that the second man-eater
started eating people as well.

We probably were,
um, an easy meal.

We oftentimes will see an animal
that has killed multiple humans

and think, "Oh, wow,
they're gunning for us."

But we have to really
remember and reframe it

as these are animals that are
doing just what they have to do

to make it into the next
week, the next year.

Just like we would. It's
kind of eat or be eaten.

The story of the
Tsavo man-eating lions

is proof positive that
some animals enjoy

having humans on
the menu, so to speak.

But there's another
creature who reportedly killed

over a hundred people
that is even more unsettling.

A fearsome predator that
roamed the French countryside

and was known as
the Beast of Gévaudan.

On a warm summer
morning in this farming region

of south central France,

14-year-old Jeanne
Boulet leaves home

to tend her flock of sheep.

By sundown, she's dead.

Murdered by a mysterious animal

that reportedly
mutilated her body,

severed her head

and ripped out her heart.

Jeanne Boulet was the
first documented casualty

of a monster that
many people believed

was roaming around
south central France

beginning in the
late spring of 1764.

By the end of September,
another ten or so casualties,

however, had appeared.

Le Bête du Gévaudan,

also known as the
Beast of Gévaudan,

was a mysterious
wolflike creature

which mounted a
murderous rampage

over a three-year span
within the 18th century.

The beast frequently attacked
women and young children

who had been assigned the
task of herding sheep and cattle

in remote mountainous meadows.

And in many cases,

they were rather
defenseless and vulnerable.

Between 1764 and 1767,

the so-called Beast of Gévaudan

terrorized the Margeride
mountain region

of southern France.

According to historical records,

more than 100 people
were brutally killed.

The Beast of
the Gévaudan's ravages

did incite panic
among the people.

And we know this largely
from evidence from journalists

and others who were
commenting about

the activities of the beast.

By early 1765, newspapers
all across France

and, indeed, all across
Europe and in America

were reporting on the
Beast of the Gévaudan...

His exploits, the various
hunts for the beast,

the various mysteries
surrounding it...

Which is why so many people
were transfixed by this story.

There were many
attempts to hunt down the beast.

People in the Gévaudan
region typically did not own guns,

but there were posses formed.

Groups that would go out
in the woods and literally

beat the brush with
pitchforks, sticks,

knives, whatever types
of weapons were available.

However, the hunt for
the beast really ramped up

when King Louis
XV became involved.

He brought in a professional
wolf hunter named d'Enneval,

who allegedly killed
over a hundred wolves,

but the killing
still did not end.

According to multiple
reports, the beast resembled a wolf

but was unlike any canine
that was known to man.

Many of the local
villagers noted as saying it resembles

a very large wolf, but the
Beast of Gévaudan attacked

and killed people in a nature
that was very unlike a wolf.

The nature of these attacks,

the way that this thing -

was decapitating people,

disemboweling people,

this was something
completely different.

One of the reasons this
becomes such a magnetic story

is because there were
always new strange stories

about the beast's behavior,

its appearance,
its strange abilities.

The peasants on the
ground were describing it

as having the ability
to walk on its hind legs,

glowing eyes, and having five
or six talons rather than four.

They didn't use
the word "werewolf."

They used descriptions of
this creature that made it easy

to believe that this could
indeed be a werewolf.

The Beast of
Gévaudan is one of France's

most enduring and
popular mysteries.

There are museums.

There are statues.

There are songs.
There are stories.

This was like a
real-life nightmare.

To this day, the
Beast of Gévaudan

is celebrated in French culture,

and it really has a
profound effect on people.

The descriptions
of the beast were so terrifying

that it's not surprising
locals thought

it was some kind of
supernatural monster.

But there were
scientists at the time

who proposed a different theory.

Among the many
hypotheses that emerged

was that the beast might
be an African hyena.

The hyena was this
very mysterious creature

that lots of naturalists
and others wrote about

in the 1750s and '60s.

The general description of

the Beast of Gévaudan
was a wolflike creature

but bigger, the size of a
mule or a calf, perhaps.

It had a large head.

It had a long muzzle,
lined with razor-sharp teeth.

Pointy ears.

A long tail with a
tuft of fur on the end.

The coat of fur was
typically described

as a reddish brown or
gray, with a black stripe

running down the
back, and a white breast.

These are hyena-like
characteristics.

Back in the day,
kings and even people of status

had exotic pets,
they had exotic zoos.

Who's to say that a
hyena didn't escape?

If you take a
look at the victims,

their chest cavities torn
apart, their limbs missing,

their heads decapitated.

This all resembles
attacks of a hyena.

Could the Beast of Gévaudan
have been an escaped African hyena?

Perhaps.

But some researchers
have suggested

a less exotic possibility.

There are a
number of arguments for

the Beast of Gévaudan
actually being a killer wolf.

Wolves typically are very
timid animals around humans.

But there have been
some 9,000 wolf attacks

in France over the centuries.

And there was also a theory
that the beast attacks may have

been perpetrated by a wolf
that had come down with rabies.

According to
experts, rabid wolves often lose

their innate fear of humans,
and walk with a strange gait.

Which are behaviors described
in the eyewitness accounts

of the Beast of Gévaudan.

But while the rabid wolf
theory may make sense,

the best clue
scientists have today

about the beast's identity

was obtained on the day
it was reportedly killed.

The beast's reign
of terror ended

on June 19, 1767,

when a local hunter
named Jean Chastel

felled the monster

with one shot
of a silver bullet.

After Chastel shot
this strange creature,

the killings actually
stopped, so everyone was

in agreement that-that he
had actually killed the beast.

A surgeon who conducted
an autopsy determined

that while it resembled
a wolf, it was not a wolf.

And in fact, it
possessed 40 teeth

compared to a wolf's 42 teeth,

which is quite strange.

The beast's remains
were paraded around

the Gévaudan region
for weeks thereafter.

And by the time the
carcass was taken

to the Palace of
Versailles and presented

to King Louis XV,
it was so smelly

that he immediately demanded

that it be removed
from the palace.

And to this day, nobody
knows what happened

to those remains...
They vanished.

Ultimately, while
some people feel

the Beast of Gévaudan may have
been a supernatural phenomenon,

the deaths, the occurrences
documented, they're real.

And the Beast of Gévaudan
remains a great mystery.

Was the Beast of
Gévaudan a common wolf

or something even
more terrifying?

Either way, this deadly
creature drove fear

into the hearts of
people all over France.

And that was also the case
more than a century later,

in the United States, when
a wave of panic was caused

by the attacks of
a great white shark.

25-year-old
Charles Vansant is swimming

in the brisk Atlantic waters

off the coast of this
resort community...

when he's suddenly
attacked by a massive shark.

Lifeguards pull
Vansant from the water

and see that his left thigh
has been stripped of its flesh

by a massive set
of razor-sharp jaws.

The story is that they had to

almost wrestle him
away from the shark.

As they pulled him ashore
with the shark following him still,

his father, who was a
doctor, operated on him

or tried to save his life,

but he died of... of
a flesh wound to...

a bite on his...
his thigh, actually,

and, uh, loss of blood.

The gory death
of Charles Vansant was

the first recorded fatal
shark attack in U.S. history.

And then on July 6th,

a mere five days after
Vansant was killed,

there was another attack
along the Jersey Shore.

Charles Bruder, who
was a 27-year-old

Swiss native who
was in the army,

went for a swim,

and 1,200 feet out, in
the middle of the day,

was attacked and bitten

by what appeared
to be about an eight-

or nine-foot great white shark

that severed his legs
and a part of his torso.

By the time the
lifeguards got out there,

there was hardly
anything to lift into the boat.

This second deadly
attack was widely reported in newspapers

across the country, and
set off a nationwide panic.

Many people believed
it was no longer safe

to swim in the ocean off
the coast of New Jersey.

And several beaches were
closed by the authorities.

The public reaction
was hysterical.

There were calls all the
way up to President Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson
had a cabinet meeting

and talked to the early men
who founded the Coast Guard

about eradicating all the
sharks on the East Coast.

Bounties were given
by towns and cities,

and anybody that could
kill any shark could get $100.

You had fishermen going
out, catching and killing sharks.

And it wasn't just
in New Jersey.

It was all up and down
the Eastern Seaboard

and even infiltrated
into the coastal states,

Texas, Louisiana,

and as far as the Pacific
coast of North America.

Less than one
week after Charles Bruder

was killed, on July 12th,

three more people were attacked
by what many witnesses claimed

was an eight- or
nine-foot shark.

Curiously, all five of
these incidents took place

along a 50-mile stretch
off the coast of New Jersey.

Because of their proximity
and the similarities

between eyewitness accounts,

many began to wonder
whether the horrific attacks

could have been the
work of a single killer shark.

The New
Jersey attacks are so strange,

'cause sharks don't kill people
with any kind of regularity

and nobody witnesses it

with any kind of
regularity when it happens.

But the concept of a rogue shark

that kills or
injuries one person

and that gets a
taste for human flesh

and goes after another
like a serial killer,

the Jersey Shore may
be the best evidence

we have that that's
ever happened.

On July 14, 1916,

two weeks after
the first fatal attack,

a taxidermist named
Michael Schleisser caught

a seven-and-a-half-foot,
325-pound great white shark

off the northern end
of the Jersey Shore.

After cutting open its stomach,
authorities found what appeared

to be partially digested
human remains.

There are many who believe
that this great white shark was

responsible for all five
attacks that took place,

four of which were fatal.

Fatal shark attacks
on humans are seldom

predatory for feeding.

So what was going on
that would cause a series

of five attacks over
a 11-day period,

what was behind all of this?

People panicked.

No one wanted
to go in the ocean.

So its effect on individuals,
citizens, was enormous.

And it was something
that, to this day,

still has an effect on us.

The 1916 Jersey
Shore attacks helped to popularize

the notion of sharks
as deadly man-eaters.

More than 50 years
later, the killings inspired

the 1974 novel Jaws
by Peter Benchley,

which became the basis
of the blockbuster film

made by Steven
Spielberg that terrorized

generations of beachgoers.

But despite their
bad reputation,

the truth is that sharks
rarely kill humans.

According to statistics gathered

by the International
Shark Attack File,

on average, there are
only five fatal shark attacks

worldwide per year.

So why does the
belief persist that

some sharks are a
serious threat to humans?

Over the years, sharks,
especially white sharks,

have been portrayed as killers.

Unfortunately, people
are killed from time to time.

It has been postulated

that white sharks' hunting has

similarities into the tactics
utilized by serial killers.

Serial killers use what is
referred to as an anchor point,

which is where they
will sit and watch

and pick their victim.

White sharks do the same thing.

White sharks like
to hunt stealth,

where the intended
victim can't see them.

A lot of people
often look at sharks and think

that there's nothing going on.

But great whites are
intelligent animals.

We've watched great
whites attack seals.

And you'll find the older
great whites will pick out

specific individuals,
usually young ones.

It's very methodical.

So it is 100% possible

that some sharks
like the taste of people.

Are there
certain sharks that specifically

and methodically hunt people?

Some marine biologists
have suggested it's possible.

But if this theory is true, then
what's even more disturbing

is that a killer shark
may keep stalking people

for a very long, long time.

Great whites can live
to be 80-plus years old.

There are some accounts
of specimens being over 100.

They study their subjects
just like a serial killer.

They learn from their
mistakes just like a serial killer.

That's terrifying.

Is it possible that some sharks

methodically stalk human beings?

Perhaps.

But there is one
man-eating creature

that we know has definitely

been targeting
humans for decades.

A massive crocodile

that doesn't eat its victims

but rather appears
to kill people

just for the thrill of it.

February 19, 1945.

On this 500-square-mile island,

Allied British forces drive
1,000 Japanese soldiers

deep into the murky
waters of a ten-mile swamp.

But as night falls, the
Japanese soon realize

that they're being hunted by
a very different kind of enemy,

as one by one, they're killed

by a group of
massive crocodiles.

These crocodiles were
giant... 15, 16 feet long...

And they went on
a killing rampage.

There were accounts
of bloodcurdling screams

from men trying
to save other men

from the jaws of
hungry crocodiles.

During the night,
those crocodiles killed

over 500 people.

It's the classic example
of a crocodile feeding frenzy.

The men who were
forced into the swamp

had wounds, they
were bleeding anyway.

That's a sure
sign for a crocodile

to start attacking,
the smell of blood.

It must have been something
unbelievable to go through.

I think the situation was

an encroachment of the humans
into the crocodiles' territory.

And the crocodiles were
just seizing an opportunity.

It's like getting a free meal.

You're not gonna turn it down.

By morning,
less than half of the 1,000

Japanese soldiers who entered
the swamp came out alive.

Because of the
incredible death toll,

the incident at Ramree Island

is considered by
some to be the worst

crocodile attack ever recorded.

It's also a grim
reminder that crocodiles

are one of the
deadliest and oldest

species on the planet.

Crocodiles have been around
for over 240 million years.

Way before birds, mammals
and modern-day reptiles.

Crocodiles appeared
25 million years

before the dinosaurs and
are their closest living relatives.

They share a lot of the
same features as dinosaurs,

including hip-like arrangements
that you can see in birds,

and they have teeth in sockets,

unlike teeth that are
fused to the jawbone.

Since the very
beginning of our evolution,

we have lived
alongside crocodiles

and have been eaten
by crocodiles throughout.

They're known for their
strength or their ferocity.

And we're really a snack to
some of the larger crocodiles.

East Africa.

At 410 miles long and
nearly 5,000 feet deep,

Lake Tanganyika on the border
of Tanzania and the Congo is

the longest and second deepest
freshwater lake in the world.

Thousands of people
rely on it to survive,

even though they
are aware of a terror

lurking beneath its surface.

A massive crocodile that the
locals have nicknamed Gustave.

Gustave is an
infamous Nile crocodile.

He's supposedly over 18 feet

and weighs over 2,000 pounds.

And experts also
believe he's anywhere

from 80 to 90 years old.

He is a prolific man-eater.

These victims were women,

were children, were fishermen.

Gustave is a killing machine.

Accounts of people
being taken by Gustave

are pretty rife out
there in the villages.

The locals want him dead
because they believed he was

the monster crocodile
that was habituating

that lower section of river

and was responsible
for all those deaths.

He's definitely been
shot at a couple of times.

There's a scar on his head,
and there's another one

between his shoulders.

But what also made
killing him difficult

is that Gustave often
disappeared for months on end.

At one point in time, nobody
saw him for 18 months.

So far, no one
has been able to capture

or kill this deadly crocodile.

It is estimated that
Gustave is responsible

for killing at least 300 people
between 1987 and 2015.

But, curiously, it
seems that Gustave

doesn't always eat his victims.

According to the locals,
he may hunt humans

simply because he enjoys it.

Gustave has claimed
many, many victims.

More than any other
crocodile in history.

If you look at the
sheer number of people

that Gustave has killed,
and the fact that he doesn't

always eat his
victims, it's puzzling.

It's almost as if he's
doing it for sport.

Most villagers
think that Gustave picks on

human beings in particular.

There's rumors about how

he follows and he
stalks his-his prey.

He watches you.

He has a memory...
He knows who's where,

he knows where
the boat ramps are.

We don't hear about many
serial man-eating crocodiles,

so from a scientific
point of view,

it's also a bit of an enigma.

The last known
sighting of Gustave was in 2015,

but the fear that he will
reemerge from the waters

of Lake Tanganyika has kept
authorities on constant alert,

in the hope that they
can capture Gustave

before he kills again.

None of us know if
Gustave is actually still alive.

He's so famous that if
he had died or been killed,

somebody would have had
that skin or had that skeleton

or taken some
photos or something.

So I wouldn't be surprised
if he's still out there.

The idea that a
2,000-pound crocodile

enjoys attacking humans

is frightening,
to say the least.

But in Russia, many believe
it was a darker motivation

that caused a fearsome
tiger to take a human life.

Because this predator
may have killed its victim

as an act of revenge.

In the cold,
unforgiving forests of eastern Siberia,

a local hunter named
Vladimir Markov discovers

the bloody carcass
of a wild boar

lying half-eaten in the snow.

He instantly realizes
he's in great danger,

because he has just
stumbled upon a fresh kill

made by one of Russia's
most dangerous predators.

The Siberian tiger.

At the point where
Vladimir Markov realized

that he was coming upon
a tiger's kill, he knew that

the tiger will still be
there, because it'll still feed

upon that kill until there's
nothing left to feed on.

So if he doesn't
shoot that tiger first,

the tiger will kill him.

So it was a case for
him of "kill or be killed."

As the tiger
approached Markov to defend its kill,

he fired his rifle.

But only wounded the angry cat.

Injured, the tiger retreated
back into the forest.

But that's not the
end of the story.

Because two days later, the
local authorities were informed

that Markov had been
attacked and killed

at his home by a vicious tiger.

When investigators arrived
at Markov's log cabin,

they found a disturbing scene.

It's pretty remarkable
seeing the images.

There was obviously
quite a lot of blood.

The clothes are
tattered everywhere.

Often, when tigers kill people,
it's not necessarily for food.

But in Markov's case,
the tiger ate everything

it possibly could of him.

It wanted to leave
no trace of the man.

The strangest part of
the Vladimir Markov story

is the fact that the
tiger actively destroyed

everything around that lodge
that had Vladimir's scent on it.

Just destroyed it in
seemingly a fit of anger.

But even more unsettling
than the gruesome killing itself

was the fact that
investigators later determined

that Markov was
eaten by the same tiger

he had shot with his rifle.

The tiger tracked
Vladimir back to his hunting lodge,

a distance of 11 kilometers.

And then it waited.

That is what is remarkable.

It waited, we think,

around 48 hours for him
to return to that lodge.

And then when Vladimir returned,

it killed him.

The story of Vladimir
Markov's death at the hands

of a deadly tiger
is frightening,

but it's also mysterious.

Because while animals will
naturally defend themselves

when attacked, this
tiger tracked Markov down

over an unusually long distance.

But why?

Big predators will
kill smaller predators

with which they compete,
and there's a long history

of human competition
with predators.

So it's possible the
tiger was viewing this

as competition, and I want
to get rid of a competitor

because this is a
threat to my livelihood.

So don't steal food from tigers,

is the lesson that stands
out from Markov's story.

Did the tiger kill
Markov because it viewed him

as a threat to its
survival? Perhaps.

But there are those who
believe that it was motivated

not by self-preservation

but rather by a desire
to exact revenge.

You can't look
at this story of Vladimir

and not think that this
is a story of vengeance.

The tiger stalked
Vladimir's cabin.

It waited for Vladimir to
return home for the attack.

Everything here
points to premeditation.

You look at other
instances, you see attacks

with tigers who
will seek vengeance

on people they don't like.

These animals can
feel these emotions.

All animals
have neurochemical responses

which are remarkably similar
across all sorts of species.

They feel emotions or
feelings that influence behavior

exactly the same as we do.

You do not mess with a tiger.

If you do that, it's
gonna come after you.

Markov will have known
that when he shot that tiger

and it didn't die, he
knew that his time was up.

This tiger had the
ability to hold a grudge

with a single individual

for over 48 hours and
then take its revenge.

We have taken dominion
over nature in many ways

because of our
technological developments,

but we are still
a part of nature,

and we are still
occasionally on the menu

of bigger and stronger
animals, such as tigers.

It's chilling to think that
a tiger could actually

have a vendetta, a score
to settle, with human beings.

But not all animals see
humans as adversaries.

For example, there's
a region in India

where people and
man-eating lions

have joined forces.

These lush woodlands
are home to the Asiatic lion,

one of the rarest
predators on Earth.

Though less than 700
of these majestic cats

remain in the wild,
they often cross paths

with the local residents,
whose farms border the forest.

But, curiously, instead
of coming into conflict

with these dangerous predators,

the farmers appear to have
formed an alliance with them.

There is an
overabundance of deer

in India, and the
deer at night will come

and eat the farmers' crops.

So the farmers have teamed
up with the local Asiatic lions.

The farmers, trying to scare
the deer off, make a noise.

And the lions
quickly have learned

that that noise means
that deer are in the area.

So the lions end
up killing the deer.

This is something that has
never really been documented

where lions and humans
are working together.

Asiatic lions
are notorious man-eaters

and have even been
known to drag people

from their homes and kill them.

So how is this mutually
beneficial arrangement

between man and lion possible?

Well, as it turns out,
these lions behave

the same way any household
cat would when it's dinnertime.

Lions are very
clever, and in this sort of symbiotic

relationship with
them and humans,

they're essentially able
to learn that humans

are providing them notification
that there are prey available.

It's essentially like
ringing a dinner bell,

um, for these lions.

And so they've learned not to
attack humans in most cases.

And there's amazing
footage of people sitting down,

relaxing just a
few feet from lions.

The cooperation
between Indian farmers and Asiatic lions

is proof that, in the
right circumstances,

humans and deadly predators
can be friends instead of foes.

But experts warn
that we shouldn't

let down our guard when in
the presence of wild animals.

Seeing these farmers
walking and living

amongst these lions, it
completely blows my mind.

Now, could the tables
turn at any moment?

Absolutely.

These are still wild
animals with instincts.

I would say these
animals still need to be

treated with a lot of respect.

Human beings
like to think of themselves

as above the rest of
the animal kingdom

because we've
innovated ourselves

out of nature in
many, many ways.

But when faced with a predator,

without the benefit of
technology such as weaponry,

the predator just
sees us as food.

Essentially, our
pecking order is not

necessarily the top
of the food chain.

And, you know,

we are a part of the
natural community.

We can be prey.
We can be predators.

It depends on the situation.

But ultimately, we can
succumb to a crocodile,

to a lion,

to a tiger at any moment.

Is it possible for humans
and dangerous animals

to peacefully coexist?

It's certainly an
optimistic thought.

But let's not forget, animals
are driven by the same

hunger, fear, even revenge.

And if a deadly predator
decides that it's out for blood,

there's not much that
we can do to stop it.

Which is why some
creatures will remain

wild, unpredictable and...

unexplained.

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