Oh please.. I was a kid in Polesie in eastern Poland, huge forests all around. Played in the woods almost every day in the summer/winter vacations, never even encountered a wolf, despite them being there.
Stray dogs are a bigger threat. Rabid bats or foxes are a bigger threat. Ticks are a MUCH bigger threat. And if you drive a car - you're much more likely to kill a human being than all the wolves in the world combined.
50 years, whole world - over 211 deaths. ~5 per year.
> In the half-century up to 2002, there were eight fatal attacks in Europe and Russia, three in North America, and more than 200 in south Asia. [1]
For comparison, just in one year, just in USA - around 20-30.
> At least 4.5–4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs every year and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 20 to 30 of these result in death [2]
Wolves avoid people.
There's something irrational in people's reaction to wolves.
You know what is a concrete danger for my kids (and all other kids, in both rural and cityareas)?
- cars
and if you worry about animals
- dogs (which are wolves, bread for insanity and not fearing humans, and sometimes trained to attack people)
- chicken (salmonella probably kills a few kids a year)
I fear boars much more than the wolves living in our woods. Wolves rarely attack humans and even if it is usually associated with rabies rather than an actual hunt.
If you happen to walk into a wolf, it's probably gonna bite you and then leave you alone when you run away.
No worries, by the time my kids manage to run into a wolf they are already run over by cars multiple times on the way to the forest. Or stung to death by wasps, bees, ... bitten by the neighbors dog, attacked by a boar, drowned in some water, ...
Stray dogs are a bigger threat. Rabid bats or foxes are a bigger threat. Ticks are a MUCH bigger threat. And if you drive a car - you're much more likely to kill a human being than all the wolves in the world combined.
50 years, whole world - over 211 deaths. ~5 per year.
> In the half-century up to 2002, there were eight fatal attacks in Europe and Russia, three in North America, and more than 200 in south Asia. [1]
For comparison, just in one year, just in USA - around 20-30.
> At least 4.5–4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs every year and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 20 to 30 of these result in death [2]
Wolves avoid people.
There's something irrational in people's reaction to wolves.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attacks_on_humans
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_Unite...