Unfortunately I don't think people see it like that. It's basicly as the others have said, and whether it's Foxes, Badgers, Grey Squirrels, Corvids, or Birds of prey, the general public are fed a regular stream of lies and half truths by well spoken presenters, so called 'experts', pop stars etc, and it's easier to believe these than accept the truth.
Whenever normal animal behaviour does get shown on tv, it's so often 'glossed over' in some way, or described as a rarity which the resident 'expert' has never heard of before, then they almost invariably quickly skip to a clip of something suc