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2010-03-08. Predatory. Chignik, Alaska, US, 75 miles southwest of Kodiak. Berner, a teacher and avid jogger, was discovered dead along a road by snowmobilers, who found wolf tracks in the adjacent snow. The Alaska State Medical Examiner ruled that her death was caused by "multiple injuries due to animal mauling."
In a series of attacks, a single wolf was believed responsible for 12 deaths and 15 injuries. It was thought that the wolf had escaped from captivity and had lost its fear of humans. [583] 1820 50 people: Estonia [further explanation needed] [587] July 11, 1819 Child†, 4: Predatory: La Ferté, Jura, France "Caught and eaten by a wolf." [581 ...
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 ...
Deaths due to animal attacks. This category is for articles that describe mortal attacks on humans by animals. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain ...
OR-7, California's first resident wolf in over 80 years. In late December 2011, OR-7, a male gray wolffrom Oregon, became the first confirmed wild wolf in Californiasince 1924, when wolves were considered extirpatedfrom the state. The first resident wolf packwas confirmed in 2015, after two adults migrated from Oregon and had five pups.
Extirpation (1872–1926). History of wolves in Yellowstone. The history of wolves in Yellowstone includes the extirpation, absence and reintroduction of wild populations of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) to Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. When the park was created in 1872, wolf populations were already in decline ...
The only time at which the wolf migrates is during the wintertime when there is complete darkness for 24 hours. This makes Arctic wolf movement hard to research. About 2,250 km (1,400 mi) south of the High Arctic, a wolf movement study took place in the wintertime in complete darkness, when the temperature was as low as −53 °C (−63 °F).
The eastern wolf (Canis lycaon[ 5 ] or Canis lupus lycaon[ 6 ][ 7 ]), also known as the timber wolf, [ 8 ]Algonquin wolf and eastern timber wolf, [ 9 ] is a canine of debated taxonomy native to the Great Lakes region and southeastern Canada. It is considered to be either a unique subspecies of gray wolf or red wolf or a separate species from ...