title: Human Prey
text: # Human Prey
  
  I Was Prey also known as Human Prey is a 2009 single-season series that aired on Animal Planet. The series features episodes where human beings end up as easy prey for animals, carnivorous or herbivorous.
  
  ## Episodes
  
  ### Killers on the Loose
  
  Gary Brown's visit to an African chimp sanctuary becomes a deadly struggle when he and his guide are attacked by the colony's escaped alpha male; Idaho Zoo's 'Feast for the Beast' fundraiser takes a bloody turn when a 600-pound Siberian tiger breaks free and pursues one of the organisers, and then takes a turn for the worse when a police officer accidentally shoots the organiser in the hip while attempting to scare the tiger off; and, a police officer stares down an angry bull when the animal escapes from a 'bloodless' Massachusetts bullfight and goes on a rampage.
  
  * Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
  * Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris)
  * Bull (Bos taurus)
  
  ### Killers of the Savannah
  
  A conservationist faces an aggressive lion. Camping without a tent during his kayak holiday on the Zambezi River, a pilot is attacked by a hungry hyena as he sleeps. A rogue lioness hunts down a game warden.
  
  * Lion (Panthera leo)
  * Hyena (Crocuta crocuta)
  
  ### Killer Bears
  
  While hiking through Montana's Glacier National Park, Johan Otter and Jenna Otter are attacked by a raging grizzly intent on protecting her cubs; after visiting the hot springs in a remote British Columbia nature park, Patti McConnell and Kelly McConnell are mauled by a hungry 400-pound black bear; and, while on a two-week game shoot in the Alaskan wilderness, the tables turn on Pastor Johnny McCoy and his friend Gary Corle when they are ambushed by a grizzly.
  
  * Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos)
  * Black bear (Ursus americanus)
  
  ### River Killers
  
  While on the job at an exclusive Tampa, Florida golf club, an experienced golf ball diver is attacked by a territorial, 400-pound alligator; Jeff Tanswell's snorkeling trip turns into a bloody battle for his life when he is dragged under by a 12-foot (3.7 m) saltwater crocodile; and, while leading a Zambezi River safari, an experienced guide is savagely attacked by an aggressive hippopotamus defending its turf.
  
  * Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
  * Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)
  * Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
  
  ### Killer Cats and Dogs
  
  On a camping trip in the Canadian wilderness, the Delventhal family is unwittingly stalked by a hungry and opportunistic wolf; while mowing the lawn on a Sunday afternoon, a suburban Virginia man named Jimmy Hawthorne is repeatedly menaced and attacked by a rabid coyote, and a mountain bike excursion in a California wilderness park becomes a life-and-death struggle when a cyclist is pounced upon and attacked by a 110-pound male cougar.
  
  * Wolf (Canis lupus)
  * Coyote (Canis latrans)
  * Cougar (Puma concolor)
  
  ### Killer Sharks
  
  While diving for shellfish off Cape Howe, an Australian man ends up inside the jaws of a Great White shark; training for a triathlon off the Alabama coast, a swimmer meets an aggressive bull shark on the prowl for an early breakfast; and, determined to maintain his championship spear fishing title, Rodney Fox inadvertently becomes bait for a 15-foot-long (4.6 m) great white shark.
  
  * Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
  * Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas)
  