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261 X users
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Title
Human behaviour can trigger large carnivore attacks in developed countries
Published in
Scientific Reports, February 2016
DOI 10.1038/srep20552
Pubmed ID
Authors

Vincenzo Penteriani, María del Mar Delgado, Francesco Pinchera, Javier Naves, Alberto Fernández-Gil, Ilpo Kojola, Sauli Härkönen, Harri Norberg, Jens Frank, José María Fedriani, Veronica Sahlén, Ole-Gunnar Støen, Jon E. Swenson, Petter Wabakken, Mario Pellegrini, Stephen Herrero, José Vicente López-Bao

Abstract

The media and scientific literature are increasingly reporting an escalation of large carnivore attacks on humans in North America and Europe. Although rare compared to human fatalities by other wildlife, the media often overplay large carnivore attacks on humans, causing increased fear and negative attitudes towards coexisting with and conserving these species. Although large carnivore populations are generally increasing in developed countries, increased numbers are not solely responsible for the observed rise in the number of attacks by large carnivores. Here we show that an increasing number of people are involved in outdoor activities and, when doing so, some people engage in risk-enhancing behaviour that can increase the probability of a risky encounter and a potential attack. About half of the well-documented reported attacks have involved risk-enhancing human behaviours, the most common of which is leaving children unattended. Our study provides unique insight into the causes, and as a result the prevention, of large carnivore attacks on people. Prevention and information that can encourage appropriate human behaviour when sharing the landscape with large carnivores are of paramount importance to reduce both potentially fatal human-carnivore encounters and their consequences to large carnivores.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 311 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 17%
Student > Master 50 16%
Researcher 49 15%
Student > Bachelor 42 13%
Other 16 5%
Other 46 14%
Unknown 64 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 139 43%
Environmental Science 73 23%
Social Sciences 9 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 2%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 2%
Other 18 6%
Unknown 71 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 851. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2024.
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#21,436
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Outputs from Scientific Reports
#336
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Outputs of similar age
#314
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Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#6
of 3,261 outputs
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