15 Most Amazing Pictures of Wolf - Human Interaction
Two recent reports on wolf-human interactions conclude that attacks by healthy wild wolves do occur but are rare and unusual events despite growing numbers of wolves worldwide.
Both reports also state that there has not been a person killed by wolves in North America during the 20th century. Wild wolves generally fear and avoid people, rarely posing a threat to human safety.
Since about 1950, there have been two apparent wolf-caused human fatalities in North America (Canada and Alaska). Two broad summaries published in 2002 documented 28 reports of wolf aggression towards humans in North America from 1969 to 2001. Nineteen of these involved wolves habituated to humans. Domestic dogs were present in 5 of the incidents.
There have been no physical attacks on people in Idaho, Montana, or Wyoming from the time wolf recovery began in the 1980s until the present. Wolves can become habituated to humans in areas where they regularly encounter humans or human food.
Wolves rarely interbreed with other canid species, including dogs, because behavioral differences usually keep them distinct.
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