Carnivore Minds Quotes

“Statistically, children who experience trauma or emotional neglect are at greater risk later in life for psychological disorders, compromised immune systems, and a suite of diseases.”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

“from malaria, 23,000 from diabetes, 35,000 from diarrhea, and 122,000 from HIV/Aids/tuberculosis.”37 The disparity between fatalities caused by wildlife and those caused by other agents is even more astounding given that bears, big cats, and even marine carnivores must survive in a fraction of their historical habitat, with a hugely reduced resource base that is often in close proximity to human communities.”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

“Coyotes rarely bite, let alone kill and eat humans, yet they remain atop the most-wanted pest list. And compared with other deadly threats, the number of African lion attacks on humans is vanishingly small. In Tanzania, “193 to 1,499 people per year die of rabies-infected dog bites, 600 from snake bites, 1,900 from falls, 4,700 from drowning, 6,000 from asthma, 13,000 from road accidents, 14,000 from violence/homicide, 21,000”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

“In contrast, there were twenty confirmed puma-related human deaths over a 120-year period, which amounts to 0.17 deaths per year. Three fatal shark attacks occurred worldwide in 2014 compared with 1.24 million vehicular deaths in that same year. No more than five people annually succumb to the fangs of a rattlesnake.”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

“Each year there are, on average, 20,000 deaths, 7 million disabling injuries, and 20 million hospital visits resulting from accidents within the confines of American homes.34 Approximately 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year. Between 1982 and 2014, there were 4,870 “fatal and disfiguring” attacks by dogs, resulting in 579 deaths, and annually, deer, whose historical migratory paths are now severed by roads, “fling themselves in front of 247,000 motor vehicles and injure or kill 26,647 drivers and occupants.” Furthermore, human-on-human deaths eclipse all of these statistics.”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

“Then I discovered that a lot of bad press about bears is generated by the hunting industry, which supports government wildlife agencies. The more hype about how scary an animal like a bear or wolf supposedly is, the more money can be charged for the opportunity to kill it. It is a legacy of how the system was set up in the early days of pioneering. As a result, a whole culture of fear has been built up around grizzlies.”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

“many reasons why bears cannot, and should not, trust us.”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

“After spending most of my life exploring how to be able to trust grizzly bears, I am convinced that we can trust these bears implicitly. But there are far too”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

“From the famed but ethically bankrupt experiments of Harry Harlow, to the excruciating testimonies of refugees and concentration camp survivors, science and history are replete with the mind-shattering and life-altering impacts of psychological trauma. For carnivores, the story is eerily similar. With drastic losses of habitat, a constant threat from hunters, high mortality, and unreliable food sources, life for the average carnivore has changed dramatically and rapidly from historic norms. Under highly stressful physical or emotional conditions (food deprivation, decreased habitat, loss of one's mother, social disruption), species-normative brain processes are compromised. What goes around on the outside, comes around on the inside. Each unusual change in the environment telegraphs directly into the brain and body, altering the organism's inner blueprint. These neuroepigenetic changes then are expressed as variations in personality, stress regulation, and immunological resilience. The result is a puma who is not quite a puma.”
― G.A. Bradshaw, Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are