Attacks by wolf packs are far less common than bear attacks.
What I am seeing is when one wolf is shot, the pack stops attacking. Not what Valerius Geist expected, but it is what I see. I recall four cases, two in Wisconsin, and one in Washington State, one in Oregon. In all four, wolves were acting very aggressively. Then one wolf was shot, and the rest backed off.
Even with the Russian wolf attacks, the wolves seem careful in their choice of victims. Most of the victims of wolf attacks are children and women.
Obviously. I was speaking of the past as indication of the future. As wolves become more numerous, depletion of prey and habituation to people will cause them to become more brazen. The best records of wolf attacks on people are in Will Graves' "Wolves in Russia."
Yes, wolves are social, they’ll pause to take a vote and if there’s a dead voter, that’s usually decisive.