# Wolves Attacking People? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 18, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wolves-attacking-people/529491 "2010-02-18T17:35:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wolves-attacking-people/529491/61 "2010-03-16T04:11:49Z")
If you read the linked article, you have a different perspective. > [@](#): > > The fatal attack could be the first on U.S. soil in more than 50 years. This contradicts some of the information at Wiki and fits with the history that I have been familiar with for the last seventeen years now. Wolves are not afraid of rifles. They are pack animals that naturally have an aversion to being around human beings. Healthy, well-fed wolves in the wild don’t attack human beings. They cannot be domesticated. Hybreds of wolves and dogs are more dangerous than wolves or dogs. They have the power of the wolves without the aversion to people. (I was a wolf docent at a wildlife park for a couple of years.) > [@](#): > > **G’bro** : Three collared wolves were killed last fall in MN. That, although illegal, helps man, keep the fear factor up where it belongs. Hope they keep there mouths shut! Fear springing from ignorance. What a rotten thing to do! If you think the latest issue of National Geographic will be “slanted” toward the preservationists, maybe that issue from 15 or 20 years ago is a little outdated. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wolves-attacking-people/529491/62 "2010-03-16T06:45:24Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > Healthy, well-fed wolves in the wild don’t attack human beings. How was this “fact” established? Who assessed the condition of the wolves that have attacked and killed people? > [@](#): > > They cannot be domesticated. :dubious: Wolves were the very first animal humans domesticated. So yeah, they can be domesticated and have been domesticated. Now if you mean that a wolf can’t be tamed, that is also clearly not true since there are numerous tame wolves throughout the world. > [@](#): > > Hybreds of wolves and dogs are more dangerous than wolves or dogs. They have the power of the wolves without the aversion to people. Can we have reference for both those claims please? That demi-wolves are more dangerous (define that how you will) than any other dog breed, and that they are more powerful than a cross breed dog of the same size. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wolves-attacking-people/529491/63 "2010-03-16T07:00:37Z")
> [@Pedro](#): > > Why? Why do we want to reintroduce a pack animal in a national park? Because they’re a danger to people and will eventually breed beyond the park boundary and become nuisance predators. There’s already a hunting season for them so their numbers can be controlled outside the park system. I suppose park rangers could do the same thing if need be. ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wolves-attacking-people/529491/64 "2010-03-16T10:51:17Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Why do we want to reintroduce a pack animal in a national park? Because they’re a danger to people and will eventually breed beyond the park boundary and become nuisance predators. There’s already a hunting season for them so their numbers can be controlled outside the park system. I suppose park rangers could do the same thing if need be. Thanks for your answer. I’ll spare you my humans are a fucked up species rant. Monkeys with nuclear weapons I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wolves-attacking-people/529491/65 "2011-04-12T14:51:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > See the second painting here: [http://www.wrmgraphics.com/page40.html](http://www.wrmgraphics.com/page40.html) Link fixed: [WILDLIFE ART](http://www.wrmgraphics.com/index_files/Page478.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wolves-attacking-people/529491/66 "2011-04-12T14:57:12Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > I personally wouldn’t wander around a park by myself without a gun if it has wolves/bears in it. What the bear was doing in your gun you’ll never know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wolves-attacking-people/529491.md?page=3)