Does anyone understand what’s going on when they get attacked/bitten/poisoned by some sort of animal and after the fact they say something like, “I don’t blame the animal we were in their habitat so it’s our responsibility to look out,” or even more bafflingly after something like a shark attack say it wasn’t the animal’s fault because it thought I was a seal?

I mean presumably most people believe that animals aren’t ever morally responsible for their actions (certainly the Christian view) but these explanations suggest that the animal could have been at fault if things had been different. What even makes something the animal’s habitat as opposed to our habitat? Would the shark somehow have been blameworthy if it knew it was attacking a human but was hungry anyway?

What seems particularly ironic about all this is that almost all the excuses (except total lack of moral responsibility) given for animals seem to apply equally well to people who destroy the animals habitats or hunt the animal down in revenge.