[RetroTechie]

> Are wolves even a threat? Outside of movies theyre pretty harmless.

Are you kidding? Humans often had a fear of wolves throughout history. And rightfully so.

But the reverse is also true. Hence wolves tend to stay away from people so encounters are rare. But where not, human-wolf close encounters can end deadly sometimes. Even for the humans (especially children).

[the_real_cher]

Looks like zero documented death by wolves in the entirety of the 20th century in the contiguous North America.

[danielvf]

1. Wolves were basically exterminated in the continental US for most of the 20th century 2. There were still deaths from wolf attacks in North America during that time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_...

[idiotsecant]

What are you talking about? There's tons of wolves in my county. They aren't 'basically exterminated' at all. And there's zero human attacks. Lots and lots of cow attacks though.

[stephenhuey]

Yellowstone park rangers killed the last wolves there in 1926, and by the middle of the 20th century, the total population in the Lower 48 had been reduced to a few hundred in Minnesota and Michigan.

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/historyculture/wolf-managemen...

This map shows how now there are nearly 7,000 in the contiguous states of the USA:

https://nywolf.org/learn/u-s-wolf-populations/

[peterashford]

Wikipedia suggests hundreds of deaths in various regions around the world - more common in the past, which suggests, I think, more wolves = more deaths.