Originally Posted by Melchizedek

Because all other animals except humans are fundamentally selfish,if a mother bear is with its young,and a man shoots at them with a gun,it may get angry,but it has learned that a gun is more powerful than itself,so it will run and hope that its young catch up .Creatures may take on other predators bigger than themselves,but when they know without doubt they will die,they will not,because they are inteligent and know that they can reproduce again at a later time