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  2. Wolf attack - Wikipedia

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    Rabid wolves usually act alone, traveling large distances and often biting large numbers of people and domestic animals. Most rabid wolf attacks occur in the spring and autumn periods. Unlike with predatory attacks, the victims of rabid wolves are not eaten, and the attacks generally only occur on a single day. [15]

  3. List of wolf attacks - Wikipedia

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    A wolf or wolves were presumed to have killed a girl who had disappeared. [578] 1924 Ten people: Rabid: Kirov, Kirov Oblast, Russia: Two rabid wolves killed one person, and bit ten others who survived. [579] December 23, 1922 Three men† † Sturgeon River, Manitoba, Canada: Timber wolves killed a trapper and a bounty was placed on the animals.

  4. Wolves in EU could lose safeguards, allowing culls as numbers ...

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    Campaigners also point to a 2023 EU report, which states that only around 50,000 of Europe’s 68 million sheep and goats are killed by wolves each year - 0.065% of the total number – adding ...

  5. Kirov wolf attacks - Wikipedia

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    The Kirov wolf attacks were a series of man-eating wolf attacks on humans which occurred from 1944–1954 in nine raions (districts) of the 120,800 km 2 Kirov Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic [1] which resulted in the deaths of 22 children and teenagers between the ages of 3 and 17. [2]

  6. Wolf of Soissons - Wikipedia

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    The episode ended when Antoine Saverelle, a former member of the local militia, tracked the wolf to a small lane armed with a pitchfork. The wolf sprang at him but he managed to pin its head to the ground with the instrument, holding it down for roughly fifteen minutes before an armed peasant came to his aid and killed the animal.

  7. Man-eating animal - Wikipedia

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    In the rare cases in which man-eating wolf attacks occur, the majority of victims are children. [15] Habituation is a known factor contributing to some man-eating wolf attacks which results from living close to human habitations, causing wolves to lose their fear of humans and consequently approach too closely, much like urban coyotes.

  8. Eurasian wolf - Wikipedia

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    According to documented data, man-eating (not rabid) wolves killed 111 people in Estonia in the years from 1804 to 1853, 108 of them were children, two men and one woman. Of the 108 children, 59 were boys aged 1 – 15 years (average age 7.3 years) and 47 girls aged 1 – 17 years (average age 7.2 years).

  9. Wolves in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known remains of wolves in Britain are from Pontnewydd Cave in Wales, dating to around 225,000 years ago, during the late Middle Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stage 7). Wolves continuously occupied Britain since this time, despite dramatic climatic fluctuations. [4] The Roman colonisation of Britain saw sporadic wolf-hunting. [5]