I think we are long past the era when kids would run off for miles into the countryside, unaccompanied by an adult.
Plus if it did have a taste for humans, we’d already have reports of people being attacked by now. So if there is a big cat, and that’s a big “if”, then it’s more likely the cat is at risk from farmers shooting a predictor to the farm’s livestock, than kids are at risk from the cat
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I think we are long past the era when kids would run off for miles into the countryside, unaccompanied by an adult.
Plus if it did have a taste for humans, we’d already have reports of people being attacked by now. So if there is a big cat, and that’s a big “if”, then it’s more likely the cat is at risk from farmers shooting a predictor to the farm’s livestock, than kids are at risk from the cat
The different between a few hundred meters and a few miles is pretty darn significant. A literal order of magnitude in fact
At 13, I regularly solitarily ventured about 15 miles away (5 miles as the crow flies) by bicycle.
And how many years ago was that?
I used to venture far when I was 13. Times are different now
I'll take a wild guess that kids in rural Kenya venture quite far when there is no other form of transportation.