I know this is a fable but the thing about animals is we want to help them so that's why they help her. If a puma was skating on thin ice, maybe you would try to scare it back off. But that's the thing, animals probably would be scared if the puma was drowning it would say "you can't take my pelt, while I'm weak" and scratch you, if you tried to pull it out. But if a puma pulled you out it would be too fast for you to get scared.Even cats scratch if they think you'll drop them. In a perilous situation forget about it. But getting scratched can give you an infection, or in this case, maybe like with human drownings, you pull each other down, the puma defensive. But it's because you can't communicate. Animals are food motivated, and wouldn't want to share (my poor cat but I'm not touching that Cole I'm too privileged, I wouant ground beef. But once she brought. A slice of pizza 🩶 because she was a stray at a bar)but a bear would definitely show you where to fish! Humans probably could leave critters out for pumas and bears sometimes. Of course it's fictional for a human to depend on a wild animal (but usually we aren't out in winter) but well you have heard 100 times not to let bears depend on you but if you would hear their grievances in their voice and understand and stuff then they could just yell and stamp their feet instead of saying give me the food or else I will destroy your car. It's a big deal to me! My car! My trash cans I don't care about but it's bad to (you've heard it before!) junk food to animals. How do you think humans feel about junk food! Bad. Scientists probably do guard the cave for the bear but they really only need protection against other humans I THINK and even then what do want a photo op? Sure. If I was 25 raccoons I think I could eat a bear in winter but maybe we would know better like how she leaves meat for the preditors to encourage more prey we would know bears are encouraging 🤎

There is some cooking 😜 but this is about living in the mountains