Animals fatally maul, sting, trample, and chew about a million humans per year. Pretty nice of them, given the numbers on our side—the average of 750 million chickens we kill in the U.S. every month, for instance. In an ideal world, no one would ever get mauled by a bear,

Everyone has a favorite line from the movie Jaws and, for a lot of people it’s when Roy Scheider sees the shark for the first time and says, “We’re going to need a bugger boat.  Well, just such a thing happened this week in Australia when a sixty year olf