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A despicable attack and makes me think of some suitable marsupial revenge. Kangaroos aren't helpless mewling blobs; they can easily kick an adult human to death. I propose putting them in a cage with a six foot tall, 200 pound Red Kangaroo and seeing what happens.
Nefir, I'm not an animal expert either but I would say that many predators invest a great deal in thinking from their preys point of view. The lioness will know that she can be smelt if approaching Gazelles from a certain direction, will plan a route of attack designed to isolate the vulerable young, and employ a whole range of different tactics that require an understanding and observation of the herd. The vulture has to make a judgement as to the point at which a starving human is weak and delerious enough to cease fending off their advances.
Animal instinct is not some lightswitch or turn key that reduces the animals behaviour to a simple equation. Nor does it allow us to impose the human concept of "innocence" upon them.
The way I see it...humans are animals. A powerful trait that makes the human animal unique it rationality. Cruelty is fairly irrational. Therefore, might there be some instinctive element to cruelty that we are unaware of? And if so, why would it have only evolved in our species? Maybe we are cruel because we are subverting once useful instinctive qualities that no longer serve a purpose in sophisticated societies.
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