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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
shoot shovel and shutup
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.”
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?
This guy is a maroon if his only weapon is a knife with a 4” blade.
Predatory wolf? Are there vegetarian wolves?
;’) Thanks G76.
Let's take a trip down memory lane - anyone else recall the insistent bleating on the part of the ecochondriacs that "There's never been a recorded attack on a human by a wolf in the North American continent, ever"? This guy may have some, ah, "input" on that issue.
Thanks for posting this. I don’t subscribe to the idiot notion that nature is a warm, fuzzy place resembling the Garden of Eden, but I’ve always read that the only documented attack by a wolf against a human being in North America was some guy in Manitoba in the 1940s riding a handcar along a railway line who was set upon by a rabid wolf, which hung on for a half hour before the guy got rid of it. (Yes, yes, I know that I could have looked this up on the Internet, but I think the facts are somewhat correct.) Nevertheless, here are two instances of wolf attacks in this article. Interesting stuff. Around here (about 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle), we always head into the forest and mountains armed, and we respect the land and wildlife. Thanks for posting this - I wonder if the info I was given about that lone wolf attack was true until the recent past, or whether it was just bad info.
A good resource for wolf attacks and scary encouters can be found here:
http://www.wc.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/techpubs/research_pdfs/techb13p3.pdf
That wolf attack I remember is from Poulin, Ontario, from 1942, and did include a handcar on the railroad with the man fighting off the wolf for 25 minutes with a handaxe. (Case 50 in the above report). I also ran across some other sources that insist that this is the only wolf attack in North America, but the report above has many, many other instances of wolf attacks and encounters. Thanks again for posting this article and improving my understanding of things.
The starving wolf was on an island and being old could not eak out an exixtance from normal prey
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