Bertie Gregory
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No, let's break that one down.
So when you see in the news, a wild animal has attacked a human.
Yeah.
The vast, vast majority of the time, it is because the human has done something wrong.
So they have got in between a mother and its cubs.
They have backed an animal into a corner.
They have misread an animal's body language.
They have done the wrong thing.
So the first thing I'd say is it's very easy to kind of pin it on the animal and go, oh, the animal attacked the human.
Yeah.
Let's just clarify, there are a very small number of cases whereby it was wrong place, wrong time.
And what I would say to sort of, I guess, humor your thing of, are some animals assholes?
Animals have personalities and some are incredibly intelligent and they do have bad days.
So you can meet an elephant, for example,
in the morning and it's, it's very polite and does its thing and you're there and it's there and happy days.
And then this afternoon, you know, it might have- He woke up with his girlfriend.
Maybe it had his ass kicked by a bigger elephant or whatever.
And then, and then it's a completely different animal.
Now it's a single elephant with a huge memory.
Yeah, they need the wise old dude.