Most of us have been scenic parks where we have viewed wildlife or done research in Wildlife Sanctuaries. Historically wildlife have shared human use landscapes such as village lands or waterways used by humans. Reasons for them not being there now is likely to be human induced extirpation. India is what appears to be an anomaly in today’s world where with more than a billion people, it still is home to an extremely high diversity of wildlife. More than 50% of the global elephant and tiger populations live in India. It is the only home to the Asiatic lion population in the world where half the lions live outside the Protected Areas in people’s lands. Our laws do not allow for easily culling or hunting and even if a tiger has killed a human being it is not very easy to kill the animal unless you can prove it is the individual that killed. The geographic borders of wildlife reserves are what we humans create  for human administrative use which do not apply to animals. Again we apply an idea of what we think human wildlife relationships should be but we find that rural people and wild animals have had ancient relationships based on fear, awe, reverence and appeasement which might be reasons why the relationship is one of negotiation between people and wildlife rather than only interventions that we biologists understand. Large cats are revered by multiple communities in India, even today. Could it be these relationships that still allow for persistence of potentially dangerous wildlife in human use landscapes in India?