How about your kids? In Germany there are a lot of small villages. Kids still playing in the forests and fields.
It's plain stupid to forget that wolves are predators.
It's plain stupid to forget that wolves are predators.
Stray dogs are a bigger threat. Rabid bats or foxes are a bigger threat. Ticks are a MUCH bigger threat. And if you drive a car - you're much more likely to kill a human being than all the wolves in the world combined.
50 years, whole world - over 211 deaths. ~5 per year.
> In the half-century up to 2002, there were eight fatal attacks in Europe and Russia, three in North America, and more than 200 in south Asia. [1]
For comparison, just in one year, just in USA - around 20-30.
> At least 4.5–4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs every year and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 20 to 30 of these result in death [2]
Wolves avoid people.
There's something irrational in people's reaction to wolves.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attacks_on_humans
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_Unite...
- cars
and if you worry about animals
- dogs (which are wolves, bread for insanity and not fearing humans, and sometimes trained to attack people) - chicken (salmonella probably kills a few kids a year)
If you happen to walk into a wolf, it's probably gonna bite you and then leave you alone when you run away.