ABSTRACT
Conventional wisdom would picture predators formulaically thinning the size of their prey population—mountain lions eating just the right numbers of deer to keep the deer, in turn, from overpopulating. Even in areas of the world where predation on humans happens regularly, the paucity of predators compared to ever-expanding human numbers makes the impact of predators on overall human populations miniscule. Any major destabilization in the balance of predators and prey comes about because the prey have evolved some new way to elude predation; the predator then has to counter adapt or give up eating the newly elusive prey. There are two tales of predation. The first tale involved Homo sapiens. In the second tale, the family was a close relative—the mountain gorilla. These two accounts serve to depict how parallel predation events of humans and other primates are.
