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There have been few documented and undocumented wolf attacks on humans in North America in comparison to wolf attacks in Eurasia, and few relative to attacks by other larger carnivores. This article contains dynamic lists that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This is a list of some significant wolf attacks on humans worldwide, by decade and century, in reverse chronological order. The symbol † in the column "Type of attack" indicates a fatal attack. The symbol † in the column "Type of attack" indicates a fatal attack.
By the 1970s, the pro-wolf lobby aimed to change public attitudes towards wolves, with the phrase "there has never been a documented case of a healthy wild wolf attacking a human in North America" (or variations thereof [a]) becoming a slogan for people seeking to create a more positive image for the wolf. Several non-fatal attacks including ...
From 2002-20, the researchers documented 26 fatal wolf attacks on humans worldwide. Most were in Turkey (12), Iran (6) and India (4). Two were in North America: one in 2005 in Canada and one in ...
While attacks by big cats and elephants are not rare in India, wolf attacks are unusual. More than 300 people were killed in tiger attacks in the country between 2018 and 2022, according to the ...
Moreover, it says there have been no fatal wolf attacks on humans for 40 years. “If we expect countries like India or Indonesia to protect their tigers,” says Laurent Schley, head of the ...
Before Carnegie's death, there had been at least one verified case of a fatal wolf attack on a person in North America, namely Canada, where Patricia Wyman died on 18 April 1996. In contrast, more than 300 occurrences of black bears behaving aggressively toward humans have been documented in the province, including three fatal attacks.
The first attack was reported on 17 July, when a one-year-old was killed by a wolf. The latest attack was reported on 26 August when a wolf entered a house and killed a seven-year-old boy sleeping ...