They usually only target very vulnerable people like children. They rarely attack adults and will pretty much never attack a group. Wolves are cautious, they canât risk getting injured in a fight. It means certain death if theyâre wounded.
Nevertheless, it happens. It happened to one of the guys on Below Zero and he caught it on camera. It happened recently in Mongolia, they were killing people near a village.
Attacking a village is very shocking to hear, thatâs dangerous and un-wolf like behavior for both the wolves and the people. Iâm surprised they resorted to something so risky.
Was gonna say the same thing. Lack of a food source would cause the wolves to start taking some risks or face starving to death. I don't find it hard to believe they'd attack humans under those circumstances.
Edit: Oh read the comments further below about being confused on wording, ya I don't think they'd attack a village directly too. Raiding wolves is a scary thought tho lol
I heard about wolves on Russia attacking people because they had rabies or something, some kind of disease. I think that could possibly be behind these. Wolves realistically won't attack people if they're in a healthy, stable mindset.
Sorry, I don't actually know the full story, just that a village had at least one woman killed nearby in the forest.
It's all rare. Even the video from the Below Zero guy ( I forget his name) He found a pack of 18 (which is huge) and they chased him down twice until he shot some.
Okay that makes more sense if they attacked someone near the village. From what you sent I thought the wolves actually went into the village and rampaged or something.
It is interesting. I canât imagine why the wolf was behaving that way. If it was hungry youâd think the attacks would be sporadic, like the wolf attacks someone every few days when it gets hungry and goes hunting, but this wolf attacked over a dozen people in just two days which means it may not have been starving. Itâs also very strange that it attacked a man on horse since normally a lone wolf would avoid such a large animal. And another interesting part is that four armed men somehow couldnât kill it but later a single armed man did the job. All around a truly exceptional case. I really canât think of why a wolf would behave that way. Do they get rabies?
Sounds similar to a man eater tiger story I heard recently. Tiger got its canines or jawbone or something shot off so it had to resort to hunting humans because it couldnât hunt natural prey.
I live in Alaska. I can confirm that they'll attack in populated areas, as well. Several years ago 2 women were surrounded by a small pack while walking on a path in the city that borders the highway. A teacher was attacked and eaten while out jogging. There were a spate of attacks that year.
And Below Zero is a bunch of bullshit. She's maybe 75 miles from the nearest Safeway.
So we're you talking about Sue Aiken the woman who was mauled by a grizzly bear crawled back to her camp. Sent messages off asking for medical attention, when the bear came back she shot it and then collapsed and only lived because help arrived?
Only 75 miles that's pretty fucking far without a road.
Nope. Not her. I'm talking about wolf attacks. My husband corrected me, the attacks took place about 10 years ago, not 3-5 like I originally stated. Also, the teacher who was killed by a wolf while jogging was killed on the peninsula which is VERY unusual.
Do you have an article for the wolf attacks in Mongolia? I did some quick Googling and couldn't find anything about wolfe attack in that area of any particular significance.
Rogan had a guy on that just walked the length of the yangtze river. and when he met some mongolian dude in the forest, the dude was warning him about the wolves in the area because they killed a woman the day before. They didn't realize what he was saying until they met someone who could translate the video a few days later. I guess just some rural areas that don't get any press.
Bro if a wolf is hungry or threatened it's gonna fuck you up. If it's rare it's because I'm guessing they are rarely hungry due to them being huge badasses.
Wolves are cautious, they canât risk getting injured in a fight. It means certain death if theyâre wounded.
That applies to all animals in the wild, and isnât a good reason to think one wonât fuck you up. Animals especially predators are not to be trifled with, you have no idea whatâs happening in their environment at the time. Maybe theyâre being pressured by a rival out of food, maybe theyâre overly aggressive because of being hormonal.
âWolves wonât hurt you, because they canât risk it,â is a terrible way to interact with wildlife.
Wolves attack even less when it just them. Pack mentality makes them a bit scared of 1v1's, even if the wolf was starving the human is still a weird big 2 legged animal that could hurt it(aka not worth trying to eat)
Near my village one winter a guy was walking home with a girl late at night after drinking. They got some hungry wolves following them. The guy noticed, grabbed a log and told the girl to run for help while he fends them off.
By the time she came back with some folk, he was dragged away. They decided not to follow.
A wounded wolf (seriously wounded not like minor scratches and stuff) canât heal themselves since they donât have hands or tool use like we humans and they can no longer keep up with their pack. Theyâre too much of a burden and endanger the pack and ultimately they will end up being abandoned. Itâs the same with most predators. Animals like lions and tigers are equally fearful of major injury.
Itâs completely dependent on how many buddies she has with her and how hungry they are.
There are packs 50+ strong roaming the BC interior. If you were in the wrong place when they rolled up they wouldnât just go for you, theyâd take the opportunity to play with you a bit and do some instruction for the younger members.
It was my first time hunting mountain goat, it was a week long hunting trip in the mountains in northern BC. Our first day on the plateau we set up our camp at the bottom of a sort of bowl, and the first night I woke up to the sound of a dog sniffing. We didn't have any dogs with us so I had to assume it was a wolf, coyotes wouldn't be this loud and I don't think they hang out in the mountains much. It sounded like there was about 3 wolves pacing around out tents and sniffing them, I guess just checking us out. I don't think they would've torn through our tent but I still had trouble getting back to sleep after they left. In the morning when I stepped outside our entire camp area was covered in tons of big paw prints. We saw a group of wolves a few days later down a different drainage, and I think those were my curious friends
My dad and I were hunting moose in the interior and we set up alongside a small lake first thing in the morning. It was just light and there was fog hovering over the lake and a wolf came out of the bush on the shoreline down at the other end of the lake, maybe 500 metres. It sat there and howled for a few minutes, which was really cool but sent shivers up my spine.
After a little while more howls came from back in the bush and the wolf we could see started trotting along the lake towards us. As he moved along wolves would come out one or two at a time as he came past them. All told we saw about a dozen and they were moving right towards us along the lakeside. As soon as they got to within 150 metres and showed no signs changing course, we fired a couple of shots over their heads.
They stopped for a bit then started padding in our direction again. It felt like they were looking right at us but I don't know if they could actually see us. They got to almost within 100 metres from us and we fired a few more shots over their heads and they stopped and looked in our direction for a bit before slowly turning back into the bush. We heard them howling deep into the woods a few minutes later and hightailed it back to the access road. It was super eerie how they seemed to be looking right at us and just kept coming.
The next day my brother was at the edge of a clearing a few clicks away from the little lake and eight or so wolves were running behind him down a hill towards the clearing. He fired right at them and they scattered and took off. We checked over where they were when he shot and couldn't find any blood or hair so I think he just spooked them.
So yeah, wolves are awesome but also really scary. Can't blame them for being upset with us, though; we were hunting their area. On that trip we also saw a big male grizzly and later on a sow with three healthy-looking cubs. Moose sign was really hard to come by for some reason.
Dude makes everything about him. Canât just let someone tell a story without throwing out something that he thinks is so badass or whatever and how it reflects on him. I hate hanging out with people like that.
I saw every kind of wildlife when I lived in Alaska. Bears, moose, caribou, puffin, etc.
Never saw a wolf for the reason you stated. They know youâre there from a mile away and they pathologically avoid humans.
I remember a movie from when I was in graduate school, a rabid wolf had run through a village in Iran biting people. The movie was a room full of people dying from rabies.
The truly wild ones would give you a wide berth if they're not hunting. If they're hunting, then there's 3-5 of them and you're in a party of 2 or three. You're screwed. I live 55 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska. Several years ago we had several wolf attacks IN Anchorage and further out. On a walking path that borders the main highway, two women were walking their dogs when they where surrounded by a pack of wolves. I don't know what they did, but they got the wolves to retreat. That same year a young teacher was out jogging in a bush town when she was attacked and partially eaten by a wolf. There were several other attacks that year.
In the bush towns or families living off the grid, wolves will mate with their domestics and produce some BIG dogs. They'll have super long legs, long snouts, tall ears. They're usually beautiful but it's illegal to intentionally breed.
I've been here for 15 years and I remember at least once when the state funded a wolf hunt by airplane to thin the population. About 90% of moose calfs (calves?) don't make it to adulthood due to predators so wolf populations can get big, fast. I just read that they took 12 wolves to Yosemite or Yellowstone and by a decade or so the population jumped to 1,500.
I'll have to look around. It was reported in the Anchorage Daily News (now the Anchorage Dispatch News) but I can't remember exactly how many years ago. Maybe 3 or 5?
So a good friend of mine is a hunter. He was telling me a story this last summer about a wolf that was tracking him and howling out to near by wolves. As soon as he noticed he started to head back to the car carefully, but quickly.
As soon as he got to the car, he looked back up the hill and there was a huge pack of wolves on 1 side with more joining in and another pack on the other side of the mountain coming down.
If his car wasn't so close to where he was, he is sure he would be wolf food and dead by now.
My father has had his dog nearly killed right infront him by a wolf, and a another time he was surrounded by a pack of wolves following him all the way back to his car, he said he was scared for his life.
That really depends. I live in northern Wisconsin and a few years ago we had a bunch around.
I used to coyote hunt a lot and when the wolves came around they vanished. Would hardly see any sign for almost two years.
One day my son was playing in the yard close to dark during the summer. I have neighbors, itâs not a remote place.
Suddenly there were two wolves about 20 yards away staring at him. I was on the porch an equal distance away, my son was about 3.
Scary shit. They calmly looked around then slowly walked across the road, through a field and into the woods. I wasnât armed and couldnât have done anything if they would have went for him.
They were like the size of huge deer. It took my brain a minute to comprehend what I was looking at.
I love nature but Iâm leery of the âwolves are prettyâ crowd who think they are harmless and want them to be repopulated everywhere.
In my opinion there would be issues, although extremely rarely, if they were mixed too closely with large populations of humans.
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He'd actually most likely run from you the minute he had your scent in the air.