I spent a lot of the day thinking more about apocalypse fetishists who like to compare themselves to wolves and other predators, but the funny thing is that they know so little about how predators actually behave.
First of all, most predators are actually pretty bad hunters on paper, failing the vast majority of their hunts.
But there's a very good reason for that: they're well aware the odds aren't in their favour.
But there's a very good reason for that: they're well aware the odds aren't in their favour.
If you're a megafauna carnivore (i.e. eat things like deer or elk and that don't just pick on things 1/20th your size) your ability to eat is directly tied to your ability to win fights, and injuries of any kind have an outsized impact on your ability to win fights.
Actual predators in nature need to be really, really careful and, more often than not, *avoid conflict if at all possible* because conflict is risk that you get injured and can't hunt.
A lone wolf that just attacks anything it sees as a meal is just asking to get its ribcage kicked in by a lucky deer.
