Not a tragedy.
.. “And then Nature struck.”
Our cavemen ancestors - those that survived to breed at least - knew better than to try to “live peacefully” with grizzly bears and panthers.
Come to think of it, grizzly bears and panthers/cougars/mountain lions were deadly threats even through the mid 1850’s in most places in the US and Canada.
“Our cavemen ancestors - - knew better than to try to live peacefully with grizzly bears and panthers.”
That’s because they didn’t have the money-grubbing Walt Disney to indoctrinate children into believing all nature is benign, except for mankind, of course.
I think it was very early in our history that the phrase, “discretion is the better part of valor”, came into common usage.