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Okay HP Lovecraft. Hey you should write a story about that!

It writes itself... You could almost take the original study and just change the subject to people. It was very difficult for me to read.

Extending it further – what are the things that we currently do not understand well but its understanding would lead to panic of the scale we've never seen?

Cancer?

I think most animals are aware of their predators even if they don't have some complex understanding of ecosystems. Anything that may once have considered humans a part of its natural diet has long since been hunted to extinction, save for maybe some remote patches of wild at the various edges of the human inhabited world.

I'm guessing that just about every animal thinks it's immortal until it starts being eaten.

Bacteria, fungi