Hi Bryan, Very true. Wolves often get an undeserved bad reputation, and are often portrayed in movies and video games as vicious killers when in reality they aren't really that vicious. In fact, they generally avoid human beings wherever possible, and while not to be underestimated and treated like big dogs they are not the killers they are made out to be in video games and so on.
Truth is that the majority of wolves would rather dine on Bugs Bunny rather than a human being like you or I. Their normal fair is small prey like rabbits, squirrels, and certainly wouldn't mind helping himself/herself to a farmers chickens now and then but human beings generally are not on the menu. The only time they will go after larger prey like a deer is if they have a big enough pack and can take it down without serious injury to themselves. Wolves are highly intelligent animals, and like most things in nature if you leave them alone they will leave you alone. Unfortunately, like most things in nature people often misunderstand them, don't trust them, and often make the few incidents where humans have been attacked and killed out to seem worse than it actually was. Most of these reported incidents were because the wolf was suffering from a disease like rabies, was starving because it could not find natural prey in its usual territory, or it was provoked by a dumb human who threatened it for one reason or another. Wolves definitely don't attack and kill other animals for just any reason. There is a purpose for their attack and the more a person knows what those reasons are the chances are they'll get along with our furry friends. Cheers! On 5/15/14, Bryan Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > That makes sense.I wonder if the same could be said of wolves. I used to be > > a fan of author Farley Mowatt, paritcularly his book NeverCr WOlf wich dealt > > with the bad reputation wolves have. His research seemed to indicate that a > > wolf or pack of wolves wouldn't attack just anything unless absolutely > necessary. Even when hunting they apparently don't go after animals unless > those animals show signs of weakness or illness simply because it wuld be a > > waste of energ to go after, say a completely healthy caribou versus a sick > one. So any time I see wolves portrayed asvicious enemies in video games I > get sort of skeptical. I doknow that sometimes wolves go rogue and I have > heard that rogues might attack things other wolves would normally avoid. > > > > Oh freddled gruntbuggly, > thy micturations are to me > as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. > GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, > And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, > or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I > don't! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
