Are Albatwitch Dangerous to Humans?

The founder sighted a female, Albatwitch (Pan chlca sp. nov.) on two occasions in a riparian bog. The first time the Albatwitch was moving on the ground between trees, and the second time the Albatwitch was moving down the trunk of a tall tree. At the time, the founder was well-armed with a 12 gauge shotgun, hunting Eastern Coyotes (Canis latrans × Canis lupus lycaon), which is the only animal that the founder hunts, because spree-killing, Eastern Coyotes are the only animal that ever stalked the founder as prey while fishing alone at a remote pond. To the human eye, the Albatwitch has the ability to obscure its image by manipulating its fur so that it appears “shadowy” for lack of a better descriptive term. Backwoods hunters routinely walk through forests scanning treetops to avoid having a bobcat or black bear drop on their neck; however, the Albatwitch’s “cloaking” camouflage for lack of a better descriptive term would make it a formidable tree-climbing predator if it preyed on humans. Since the founder has never heard of an Albatwitch dropping out of a tree to attack a human, the founder does not believe that the Albatwitch is dangerous to humans unless cornered when all wild animals are dangerous to humans. However, the founder now instinctively scans treetops more carefully while walking in riparian forests because as every predator hunter knows, predatory animals are unpredictable, and any large, predatory animal is capable of ripping an inattentive human to shreds.