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Well if they are anything like dogs, and given their posture they looked rather safe. However if you spook them (in any way), things could go wrong fast. I've s

• ghshephard 11y ago
  The danger is in treating a wild animal like a domestic animal. Domestic animals have gone through thousands of generations of selection bias - if they attack a human, they are euthanized. Even today, a lot of dog handlers I know have the rule of two - a dog gets one chance, but if they bite a human (without being commanded to, of course) a second time, euthanized. Wild Animals have gone through a little of that (any animal that attacks a human is hunted down and killed), but nowhere near as much as domestic animals. But the thing is, Wolves look a lot like dogs, so we expect them to potentially have the same behavior patterns - which is just not the case. One other thing - the guy coming out (I presume he was Inuit, but his accent actually sounded spanish), was acting totally alpha, and the wolves responded well to that. The guy with the camera was practically inviting the wolves to see if they could dominate him. That scene could have ended up really, really horribly.