>>2763156human with a bat or walking staff can defend themselves (moving laterally during the charge) striking for the head. if the situation is especially dangerous waving a burning torch (lighter + spare clothes + dry vegetation) would stop the attack cold. most big animals leave obvious sign, mud wallows, broken vegetation, trails down to water from elevation, tree rubs, piles of scat. you should be able to spot predators miles before they smell you by just looking around when walking. probably just throwing a rock will work. this is in the 0.00001% chance that you are being attacked and didn't already clear out the entire forest by crunching along like a fatty.
if a bear really wanted to eat you it would follow you for days watching you from dense vegetation off the trail and choose to enter your tent at night. only after it's convinced you are alone, don't have a gun and don't have other food it can just yoink when you're sleeping. that same bear would eat berries out of your hand if it could choose between attack and munch. wild animals cover tens of miles a day, if a predator is attacking it's likely so weak and delirious from starvation that it's near death, or you disturbed a big chonkers cached kill or you got between a mother and young. in all three situations it should be super obvious minutes if not hours before. spooky silence and vultures and crows circling above you obvious.
almost always, moving is what gets people lost, injured, killed. they lose track of their location, can't get bearings, panic, make poor choices trying to get higher for a mobile signal, have improper gear, the weather changes, they get wet or dehydrate, can't regulate their temperature, walk in circles, twist an ankle or knee, and then if they get attacked it's because nearby predators have secondhand embarrassment. 99% they live if they sit down under a big tree and start a fire.
>t. ghillie suit enjoyer who has hundreds of hours outdoors just lying still and observing 
