Posted on 08/02/2007 8:51:10 AM PDT by george76
A kayaker's life-and-death struggle with a hungry wolf on B.C.'s remote north coast... has prompted a conservation officer to warn against taking wolf encounters too lightly.
"This was a predatory wolf attack," conservation officer James Zucchelli confirmed in an interview from his Bella Coola Valley office. "That fellow was perceived as a prey source. He was attacked with intent to eat. The wolf saw him and took off running at him."
the attack reinforces the fact that wolves are predators and capable of attacking humans under certain circumstances...
The fit, 31-year-old Port Moody kayaker was setting up his tent on a beach at 4 p.m. in the Anderson Islands off northwest Aristazabal Island, a straight-line distance of about 125 km north of Bella Bella, when an old female wolf emerged from the bushes and attacked, ...
The kayaker fought with the wolf for a few long minutes, suffering bites to his leg and hands as he attempted to pry its jaws apart and put it in a headlock.
He eventually dragged himself and the wolf several metres down the beach to his kayak, removed a 10-cm knife from his life jacket, and repeatedly stabbed the animal.
"He proceeds to start filling this thing with holes in the neck and chest area," Zucchelli said. "The wolf gives up, gurgling and bleeding, and wanders off into the trees."
Unable to paddle due to his hand injuries, the kayaker called for help on his marine radio.
A man was severely bitten by a wolf in 2000 while sleeping outdoors in his sleeping bag at Vargas Island in Clayoquot Sound. He received more than 50 stitches to his scalp.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
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nah people are stupid.... wolves just follow their nature. You need to respect that and keep out of their way.
Anderson Islands off northwest Aristazabal Island
Good answer!!!!
shoot shovel and shutup
Yep, you jump in the ocean you might get bit by a shark. If you go into the wilderness...you are in the animal’s house now.
There were valid reasons wolves were hunted to near extinction in many places, the British Isles being one of them, I believe.
My brother and I were looking at a video of a tiger leaping over an elephant’s head to get a guy on top, and I made the comment that “Boy, can you imagine if there were creatures like that with wings that would swoop out of the sky and just snatch you up...”
After an imperceptible pause, we both looked at each other and said in unison “They would be hunted to extinction.”
Many people think that wolves are just big dogs.
Did you see the ‘tourists jumping over the fences because some wolves killed a deer’ story ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1874245/posts
opps : you did see the report.
Dogs are just tame wolves :)
Absolutely! Did you click on my link near the bottom? It is good for a laugh...
On a serious note...I just finished watching the “Planet Earth” series that has an episode where a wolf is chasing a caribou calf down...the calf is made to run, and is able to keep ahead of the wolf, but...I had no idea a dog that big could run like that for that long...the chase seemed like it took several minutes of running at top speed, and the only reason the wolf caught the calf is that the calf would stumble just a little here and there, and every time it did, the wolf would creep just a few feet closer, then boom, it was right on it.
Pretty amazing stuff.
Does the article say how he beat off the wolf? :-)
Not saying that the wolf wasn’t just hungry ... but maybe it was rabid? My understanding is that having rabies will make an animal a lot more aggressive than normal (at least until it goes off to die). Anyone know about this?
The kayaker fought with the wolf for a few long minutes, suffering bites to his leg and hands as he attempted to pry its jaws apart and put it in a headlock.
He eventually dragged himself and the wolf several metres down the beach to his kayak, removed a 10-cm knife from his life jacket, and repeatedly stabbed the animal.
“He proceeds to start filling this thing with holes in the neck and chest area,” Zucchelli said. “The wolf gives up, gurgling and bleeding, and wanders off into the trees.”
” Subsequent tests on the dead wolf showed it did not have rabies...
The stomach contents included the jaw of a river otter, a feather, and bones from a rat fish scavenged from the beach.”
“There was no indication of any feeding or garbage, that anything had been placed on a regular basis on that little patch of beach to suggest a wolf attractant,”
“This wasn’t a beach used on a regular basis. There was no fire pit. There is no evidence these wolves had been fed by humans, period. There was nothing.”
A 2002 study by Mark McNay of the Alaska department of fish and game documented 80 cases in which wolves showed little fear of humans in Alaska and Canada ...
This guy is a maroon if his only weapon is a knife with a 4” blade.
Wolves can run for a long time.
A pack will work the victims by ‘cutting the corner’ and other tricks.
A baby caribou calf will be killed.
Wolves will kill to fun too.
This guy reminds me of Timmy Treadwell...
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