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Predatory attack on a child in northern Spain, as depicted on a 1914 issue of Le Petit Journal Napad wilków (attack of the wolves) by Józef Chełmoński (1883) at the Museum of Polish Army, Warsaw, Poland. Wolf attacks are injuries to humans or their property by gray wolves. Their frequency varies with geographical location and historical ...
Wolf packs often work cooperatively, as in this bison hunt at Yellowstone National Park. A pack of coyotes in Yellowstone National Park in 1999. A pack is a social group of conspecific canines. The number of members in a pack and their social behavior varies from species to species. Social structure is very important in a pack.
A well known pack hunter is the gray wolf; humans too can be considered pack hunters. Other pack hunting mammals include chimpanzees, dolphins, such as orcas, lions, dwarf and banded mongooses, and spotted hyenas. Avian social predators include the Harris's hawk, butcherbirds, three of four kookaburra species and many helmetshrikes.
Aug. 1—A wolf pack near the Canadian border has been spared the threat of state-sanctioned killing as Washington officials determined that lethal removal wasn't warranted in response to a series ...
Authorities in India have captured a wolf from a pack that is believed to be responsible for the deaths of seven children and ... Wolves become man-eaters after developing a taste for human flesh ...
Along a muddy stretch of road, they heard wolf howls and a pack of wolves surrounded them. Tooting the horn and other nonlethal measures proved ineffective. When the wolves began nipping the vehicle's tires, the men shot several of them dead with a pistol and a rifle. [117] [118] Art Gillman: n/a: ♂: 1905-01-09: n/a: On Pigeon Lake, near ...
New Delhi — One of the wolves from a pack that has killed eight people in a forested district of north India was caught Thursday, officials said. The victims, seven children and a woman, were ...
Wolf howls can under certain conditions be heard over areas of up to 130 km 2 (50 sq mi). [15] Wolf howls are generally indistinguishable from those of large dogs. [16] Male wolves give voice through an octave, passing to a deep bass with a stress on "O", while females produce a modulated nasal baritone with stress on "U".