Everyone likes to think that we are safe. Everyone likes to think that, in our advanced culture in which we have mastered the elements of nature, we are invincible. We are not. Nature is the very legitimate source of all of our fear, and the more we move away from it the more susceptible we are to succumbing to its vicious hunger.
As an example: the Sankebetsu brown bear 'incident'.
Click 'read more' to hear the tale of the animal that terrorized a small Japanese town for over a week.