Dorothee
Germany
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Exactly ten years ago, on November 8th 2005 in Points North Landing, Saskatchewan, Canada a young university student in his early 20’s was killed by what was believed to be a wild pack of grey wolves. This area was well known back then for people dumping into the woods a lot of food that wasn’t edible anymore as well as for people simply dumping into nature plastic plates and cups that still contained remains of whatever once was eaten or drunk out of them. Bears and wolves from this area thus learned very soon to associate human beings with food and they eventually lost their natural fear of men. There even are reports of wolf packs which walked their pups in broad daylight past people passing by. The grown wolves didn’t even mind when their curious pups got too close to a human being. Even worse is that some people actually found this exciting and cute and encouraged the wolves to approach them for example by laying out food for them in the garden or by trying to attract wolves they just passed by. As implied before the young man then was found dead in the woods when he didn’t return from a walk he wanted to take in this natural area and evidence – foot prints, biting marks – suggests that he was chased and eventually killed by wolves that lost their natural – normally no healthy wolf would attack a fully-grown man – fear of men due to associating human beings with a source of food. As if this preventable tragedy – just don’t dump food, but instead put non-edible food into the bin or simply buy little amounts of food that can be eaten before losing their edibility – wasn’t horrible enough, people even spread untrue rumors that demonize wolves to make this sound even more dramatic. Stories about heroic volunteers who had to fend off wolves to make it possible for the dead human body to be taken away are really nothing but rumors…and unrealistic ones at that.
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