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> Third, there are often claims that wolves never attack humans, and those claims are blatantly false or are using very carefully selected statistics (North Ame
by mullingitover 7y ago
> Third, there are often claims that wolves never attack humans, and those claims are blatantly false or are using very carefully selected statistics (North America only, etc) to craft a narrative.
This smacks of fear-mongering. I wouldn't say never, but I can count the number of wolf attacks in the lower 48 states in my lifetime on one finger. Furthermore, that one wolf attack was by a captive pet wolf[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_...
- beerandt 7y agoThe entire point he made is that it's a bad comparison. You're saying wolves don't attack often by citing numbers in an area where they've been mostly killed off in populated areas. There aren't many tiger attacks in North America, but that also has little bearing on future attack numbers if introducing a wild population. The comparison makes little sense.