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Oh sorry bodymassage3: the dangers of wild animals were higher a few hundred years ago. This is my opinnion, on which I based my argument. Good work pointing it out. I have done a lot of traveling in my life. Some of that traveling has landed me hiking torugh the Appalachian Mountains. Though I traveled more than 60 miles in about a week (this was not on a trail, btw) I only encountered one bear. I was expecting to encounter some wild cats and some wolves. Nothing. I was only with one other person the whole week and this would normally be a simple target for a pack of wolves or a wild cat. I was a combination of releived, and dissapointed. What this meant to me is that either the animals have become very very afraid of humans, or they are simply not there. Do you know how many animal attacks there are in the Eastern United States every year? Except for Coyotes, which are relitivly new in the East, there were almost none. I asked the guide after we had finished if we were in an area with wildlif control or hunting. Nope. While it wasn't a preserve, it was illegal to hunt on the land.
Now back a few hundred years ago, there was a different story. Records state of much different predators in the appalachian area. Wolves and wild cats were a serious threat in most rural areas, and even into citys! While they were hunted, their environment was still a large area and there were many more animals in total than there are now.
One good defence from such wild and dangerous animals were guns.
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