<story><title>How I became friends with an octopus</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45967535</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>This excerpt:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;When the great white sees a human it scans us, its search image is picking up something that&amp;#x27;s not prey. ...They aren&amp;#x27;t animals that are after us, if they were, there would be attacks every day.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of the bear documentary filmmaker who was killed by the bears he was observing:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Timothy_Treadwell#Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Timothy_Treadwell#Death&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s what happens when you mistake &amp;quot;animal which doesn&amp;#x27;t think you&amp;#x27;re food&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;animal of a type which won&amp;#x27;t hurt you.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Nature&amp;#x27;s pretty good at opportunism. A well-fed bear might be fairly safe, while that same bear if starving would eat you without a second thought.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I became friends with an octopus</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45967535</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>This excerpt:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;When the great white sees a human it scans us, its search image is picking up something that&amp;#x27;s not prey. ...They aren&amp;#x27;t animals that are after us, if they were, there would be attacks every day.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of the bear documentary filmmaker who was killed by the bears he was observing:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Timothy_Treadwell#Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Timothy_Treadwell#Death&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>Reminds me of that thing that comedian said. I forget who. He was saying something like:&lt;p&gt;A &lt;i&gt;shark attack&lt;/i&gt; is when a shark with a baseball bat walks in to your living room while your watching a movie and says “shark attack!”.&lt;p&gt;When you get bitten by one while your swimming or surfing, that’s a well deserved ass whipping.</text></comment>