The flip side to SuperPersistentPredator, this is what happens when a dangerous creature with the intellect and mindset of a wild animal, which has no business knowing what closed-circuit cameras, firearms, vehicles or other man-made devices are, nevertheless avoids these objects like the plague. This guarantees that the heroes who report it to the authorities will never be believed, as no photographic evidence exists to document its presence.

The creature will know not to leave tracks, claw tree bark, or dump a load where it might be found, save by a master tracker who's escorting the heroes. Likewise, this trope ensures that the creature will consistently find unarmed victims (usually [[AssholeVictim confirmed jerkasses]] or [[FanService lone sexy females]]) to prey upon, even as the armed hunters, police, and/or soldiers scouring the woods for the mysterious threat walk right by without noticing.

Sometimes clumsily justified as the creature disliking the smell of weapons or machinery, although it'll always lose that aversion in time for a climactic battle with the heroes. If this goes on long enough, viewers and/or characters may eventually deduce that ItCanThink.
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* There's a very creepy Real Life example: the Lions of Tsavo. There were no cameras, but they did do things like avoiding an ambush to go attack helpless people in a hospital, avoided bait, and alarmingly good tactics. Modern experts in lion behavior who investigated the incident concluded that at least part of it was because many of the actions that were taken to try to protect the workers and stop the lions were based on assumptions of lion behavior that were widely believed at the time but were actually false.
** Actually rather true of a ''lot'' of RealLife maneaters, [[HadToBeSharp at least the ones who last long enough]] to get names like the Champawat Tigress, the Leopard of Rudraprayag, and the Beast of Gevaudan.
* The Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. It's left up in the air how intelligent they are on their own terms. Somewhat justified as it's implied that they're some sort of AttackAnimal.
** They are ''very'' smart if perhaps not fully "sentient" (they cut the power, sneak past defenses using ducts, lay ''traps'' using bait. It seems they are at least as intelligent as humans, but driven entirely by instinct (mainly to kill, but if a queen is around to lay [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong eggs]] they will capture targets ''alive'' instead)
* The American Remake of ''Film/{{Godzilla}}'' has the titular monster somehow being able to hide in the middle of New York City.
* Seems to apply to most of the creatures on ''{{Primeval}}'', even the ones that otherwise act incredibly stupid due to low brain/body ratios.
* In ''Film/{{Alligator}}'', the gator always retreats to the sewers unseen after its nightly hunts, rather than staying outside to bask in the sun as any real alligator would.
* Many, many AttackOfTheKillerWhatever movies from the Syfy Channel play this trope 100% straight.
* BigFoot in ''Night Claws'', the RebBrown movie. It seems to hide BehindTheBlack sometimes and just straight up murders people in clearings of forests. The latter is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because [[spoiler: there's a pack of them.]]
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