Posted on 06/17/2012 1:14:47 PM PDT by null and void
A WOMAN zookeeper was mauled to death by a pack of wolves as she fed them in their enclosure.
Eight of the wolves are thought to have surrounded and attacked the woman, who was in her 30s.
Her body was found by a colleague — but the snarling pack would not let anyone near her. Eventually brave zoo workers formed a human chain and rushed the wolves, forcing them back.
Jan Tengeborg, who organised the attempt to recover the body, said: “We couldn’t get into the enclosure because the wolves clearly did not want us in there. You can’t just walk right into a wolf pack.”
No one witnessed the attack so it is not yet clear exactly what triggered it. The dead woman has not been named.
The same pack attacked TV naturalist Arne Weise when Kolmarden Wildlife Park opened in Braviken Bay, Sweden, in 2007.
He said yesterday: “We have to stop interacting so closely with wolves. It is wrong, the risk is too great. We must recognise they are dangerous animals.”
Armed police were called to the zoo but did not open fire. Mats Höggren, director at Kolmarden — where earlier this year a girl of 15 was bitten on the leg by a wolf — said: “This is is terrible.
“She was alone in the wolves’ yard but had contact with a colleague via two-way radio.
“The colleague thought she had been gone longer than usual, so investigated and found her body.” He said the animals would not be put down.
We have an acquaintance who projects the personality of kittens on wild wolves. She's involved in several programs to reintroduce them and fund their rehabilitation back into the wild.
I've said as gently as possible that it's all insanity, but she simply won't acknowledge that these are dangerous killers.
I would definetly suggest that you wear pants then if you are going to do that wolf thing.
Wolves are more important than people in Sweden, it seems. Just shooting one would probably have made the pack back off.
Sometimes it takes a hard, painful slap across the face to get some people wake up and see the world for what it really is.
A senseless, needless death.
Terrible.
Thank God for guns, huh, johnny?!?!
I live in Massachusetts, I have seen a coyote in broad daylight in my daughters neighborhood which is surrounded by woods. I have also seen a coyote on a farm not farm from my street. My daughter said that one night she heard coyotes killing a deer—they could hear the death cries of the deer. Could this have been a coyote/wolf mix since a poster says that pure coyotes cannot take down a deer?
They probably would have gotten in trouble for it. I think political correctness and multi-culturalism in Sweden probably extends to animal species.
/johnny
Genetically, biologists hold them to be just big ole dawgs now. (To the point of giving what used to be Canis familiaris the wolf species name of lupus.)
Leftists love predators whether it is wolves, Muzzies, members of NAMBLA, murderers, dictators, et al. Kill the predators? Absolutely not!
To the Leftists they are more important than the prey and don’t care how many prey are fed to them. The more the better actually!
I did have a 1911 in my off hand, nekkid as a jaybird.
Next thing I know, the dogs rush a mountain lion that had been watching.
Scared me inside. I peed in an empty coffee can for the rest of the night and poured it outside in the morning.
There is stuff out there in the woods that is dangerous.
Best to have dogs and guns. Pants help.
/johnny
They should’ve called Obama.
He eats dogs.
Sweden? No surprise. That’s the nation with laws against men standing while urinating.
"The wolves did not want us there...
Good grief. And these are the heirs of the Vikings?
If you're thinking about the Nobel Peace Prize (can't imagine you're referring to a hard science prize here) - the Norwegians get to pick the 'winner' for that one. (Ironically, they tend to pick total losers...)
We were on our deck at dusk when we heard what sounded like a pack of coywolves chasing through the woods about 20 -30 feet away in the underbrush. Whatever they were chasing was screaming. Loud. They also attacked our next door neighbor’s dog.
One of the pack that has come through our yard looked to be German Shepherd size, but since our deck is 8 feet off the ground it was difficult to be sure of the size and weight. Still, definitely well over 50 lbs.
The Eastern coyote (what we have here in Massachusetts) is a coywolf, a hybrid.
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/wildlife/living/living_with_coyotes.htm
You both live in Eastern Coyote territory. Years ago, I read a study done in New Hampshire that found the eastern coyote was a hybrid of the Eastern Timberwolf and western coyote. These coyotes vary in size and have been reported up to 80lbs. I’m guessing that the ratio of coyote to wolf in any given population depends on the prey species for that area. If they’re preying on adult deer that suggests more wolf than coyote.
BTW genus Canis will speciate through hybridization. It’s not a new observation for this genus.
Freeper ScaniaBoy (another Swede) on this “fast food” situation:
Tragic - the woman should never have been there alone. Apparently it is against the zoo regulations, as well as common sense.
Apart from the instance in 2007 there has been no reports on the wolves being agressive or threatening. Under supervision visitors have been allowed inside the fence....
Most, if not all, of the animals have been bred in captivity. That does not mean that they are domestic animals, far from it, but they are used to humans, especially their handlers.
The animals will not be put down, but I expect that safety regulations will be followed stringently from now on.
Both of them will eat you, as will coyotes and housecats.
My next door neighbor up there put a Hav-a-Heart cage in his yard one night, hoping to trap a raccoon which to take to the next village over and release the beast. One night, the cage was at the tree line, mangled. The only thing in the cage was a squirrel with his little paws chewed off. Coyotes are not to be messed with.
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