Five Misconceptions

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Myth #1

Wolves Attack People

FACT: There has never been a confirmed case of a healthy, wild wolf killing a human being in North America.  Wolves are afraid of people.  It is only in rare cases when wolves have lost their wildness and become tame or habituated to people that they have occasionally bitten someone, particularly if food is nearby.  Since 1900, more than a century ago, there has been only one possible case of a wolf-related human fatality.  That was in Saskatchewan, in central Canada, where local wolves had become habituated to garbage, thus losing their fear of humans.  And it is debatable whether this isolated example is attributable to wolves or to a bear.  To put this into context, in North America, bears (black and grizzly) have killed 27 people since 2000, and since 1990, cougars have killed 12.

 

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