article_snippet: (CNN)"The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man.
article_snippet: The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs, rockets and torches.
article_snippet: The reason the beasts give among the beasts is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch Man.
article_snippet: Is the planet still big enough for man and man-eater?
article_snippet: But the human population is growing much faster.
article_snippet: Maintaining a healthy population of apex predators is just one new challenge on a planet that will welcome a couple billion more people in just the next generation.