On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:55:12 GMT, "Hoges in WA"
wrote:

I think I read somewhere (as always!) that Polar Bears
actually see humans as prey and that they are the only mammal that does. I

All the big cats can take up maneating. Rare but it happens. Elsa the
lioness in the book and film took it up later in life, so they killed
her. Among non-mammels, the nile crocadile will go for an available
human every time. If he is big enough he will go for you. Saw some
film on public TV where a croc burst from the water and chased and
caught an antelope, impala I think, that was at least fifty feet from
the water. They eat tens of thousands of people a year in Africa.

Casady