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* Skeptics who poo-poo popular rumors that recently-extinct predators such as the thylacine, Yangtze sturgeon, Javan tiger, or baiji might still be around point out that they'd ''have'' to be this trope to remain undetected in this day and age, what with camera traps, wildlife-monitoring drones, sonar surveys of river fish stocks, and practically every potential human witness having a camera on their phone.
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* There's a very creepy Real Life example: the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters 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. The Lions of Tsavo were given the movie treatment in ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness''.
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* There's a very creepy Real Life example: the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters 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. The Lions of Tsavo were given the movie treatment in ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness''.
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** 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 (which served as the inspiration for ''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf'').
*** The Beast of Gevaudan was said to be not so much stealthy as just plain fucking unstoppable. She attacked in broad daylight, fought hand to hand (or rather paw to hand) with armed farmers, flaunted royal huntsmen, and was even said to [[MadeOfIron shrug off bullets like nothing]]. Of course, what part of the things said about it are actually true rather than simply being hysteria and embellishment are difficult to determine.
*** The Beast of Gevaudan was said to be not so much stealthy as just plain fucking unstoppable. She attacked in broad daylight, fought hand to hand (or rather paw to hand) with armed farmers, flaunted royal huntsmen, and was even said to [[MadeOfIron shrug off bullets like nothing]]. Of course, what part of the things said about it are actually true rather than simply being hysteria and embellishment are difficult to determine.
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** 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 Gévaudan (which served as the inspiration for ''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf'').
*** The Beast ofGevaudan Gévaudan was said to be not so much stealthy as just [[TheJuggernaut plain fucking unstoppable.unstoppable]]. She attacked in broad daylight, fought hand to hand (or rather paw to hand) with armed farmers, flaunted royal huntsmen, and was even said to [[MadeOfIron shrug off bullets like nothing]]. Of course, what part of the things said about it are actually true rather than simply being hysteria and embellishment are difficult to determine.
*** The Beast of
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*** The Beast of Gevaudan was said to be not so much stealthy as just plain fucking unstoppable. She attacked in broad daylight, fought hand to hand (or rather paw to hand) with armed farmers, flaunted royal huntsmen, and was even said to [[MadeOfIron shrug off bullets like nothing]].
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*** The Beast of Gevaudan was said to be not so much stealthy as just plain fucking unstoppable. She attacked in broad daylight, fought hand to hand (or rather paw to hand) with armed farmers, flaunted royal huntsmen, and was even said to [[MadeOfIron shrug off bullets like nothing]]. Of course, what part of the things said about it are actually true rather than simply being hysteria and embellishment are difficult to determine.
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** The snow leopard goes even further than this. Naturally shy, its mottled coat blends in so well with snow-covered rocks that even when moving it's extremely difficult to see, and its excellent insulation also renders it invisible to thermal-imaging cameras.
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* Many, many AttackOfTheKillerWhatever movies from the Syfy Channel play this trope 100% straight.
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* ''Franchise/{{Tremors}}'' movies:
** The Graboids in ''Film/{{Tremors}}''. Justified since they live and hunt underground and are therefore invisible to most tracking techniques.
** The Graboids in ''Film/{{Tremors}}''. Justified since they live and hunt underground and are therefore invisible to most tracking techniques.
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* ''Franchise/{{Tremors}}'' ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' movies:
** The Graboids in''Film/{{Tremors}}''.''Film/Tremors1''. Justified since they live and hunt underground and are therefore invisible to most tracking techniques.
** The Graboids in
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*** In a similar vein, in ''Film/AlienResurrection'' several Xenomorphs are locked in a cell. They slaughter one of their own so its acidic blood will melt through the floor and let them escape.
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Well known to be TruthInTelevision for species known to be ambush predators, such as Crocodilians (who can hide underwater until well within lunging distance)and sharks (whose breaches out of the water are often the only warning of an iminent shark attack).
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Well known to be TruthInTelevision for species known to be ambush predators, such as Crocodilians (who can hide underwater until well within lunging distance)and distance) and sharks (whose breaches out of the water are often the only warning of an iminent shark attack).
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Well known to be TruthInTelevision for species known to be ambush predators, such as Crocodilians (who can hide underwater until well within lunging distance)and sharks (whose breaches out of the water are often the only warning of an iminent shark attack).
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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. The Lions of Tsavo were given the movie treatment in ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness''.
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* There's a very creepy Real Life example: the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters Lions of Tsavo.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. The Lions of Tsavo were given the movie treatment in ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness''.
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* ''Film/KingCobra1999'': After Seth escapes from his confinement, it takes two years for the giant snake to get on anyone's radar. He was actually much smaller initially, and grew bigger after feeding on woodland animals.
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* ''Film/KingCobra1999'': After Seth escapes from his confinement, it takes two years for the giant snake to get on anyone's radar. He was actually much smaller initially, and grew bigger after feeding on woodland animals.
animals. Throughout the rest of the film, it has a rather frightening talent for creeping up on people without them even noticing before it's too late.
