Posted on 06/17/2012 1:14:47 PM PDT by null and void
A WOMAN zookeeper was mauled to death by a pack of wolves as she fed them in their enclosure.
Eight of the wolves are thought to have surrounded and attacked the woman, who was in her 30s.
Her body was found by a colleague — but the snarling pack would not let anyone near her. Eventually brave zoo workers formed a human chain and rushed the wolves, forcing them back.
Jan Tengeborg, who organised the attempt to recover the body, said: “We couldn’t get into the enclosure because the wolves clearly did not want us in there. You can’t just walk right into a wolf pack.”
No one witnessed the attack so it is not yet clear exactly what triggered it. The dead woman has not been named.
The same pack attacked TV naturalist Arne Weise when Kolmarden Wildlife Park opened in Braviken Bay, Sweden, in 2007.
He said yesterday: “We have to stop interacting so closely with wolves. It is wrong, the risk is too great. We must recognise they are dangerous animals.”
Armed police were called to the zoo but did not open fire. Mats Höggren, director at Kolmarden — where earlier this year a girl of 15 was bitten on the leg by a wolf — said: “This is is terrible.
“She was alone in the wolves’ yard but had contact with a colleague via two-way radio.
“The colleague thought she had been gone longer than usual, so investigated and found her body.” He said the animals would not be put down.
And then there is prey.
Watch me. You might want ear plugs or muffs. God gave me an opposable thumb for a reason.
/johnny
We think that we may have wolves in our neighborhood. They could be coyotes that were bred with huskies, but they have taken on all the attributes of a pack of wolves.
I’ve been looking up wolves and coyotes (these look more like wolves, they don’t have that triangular face and narrow nose of a coyote and they are actually lighter in color. At least the one that I saw in my yard was very light). Everything that I have read says that coyotes are lone hunters and cannot take down a deer. We have seen several deer, stripped to the bare bone.
We do have coyotes. We hear them, but what we saw did not look like a deer.
She didn’t dance fast enough.
Nah, there aren’t any wolves in your state, whichever state that is </Fish and Game>
Some in Sweden are now working on Darwin awards
That is a tragedy that could have been avoided,with proper training and backup.
It’s short steps from feeding them by hand to hand feeding them to feeding them hands...
MSM freaks to start blaming Palin in 3....2...1...
“We couldn’t get into the enclosure because the wolves clearly did not want us in there
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Understandable. Wolves do not like people taking away their food. Even some dogs will snarl at you if you mess with them while they are eating.
This was not a good way to go.
I am glad the Swedes followed all Darwinian protocols, ceding the body to the superior animal.
No, they recovered it.
“The same pack attacked TV naturalist Arne Weise when Kolmarden Wildlife Park opened in Braviken Bay, Sweden, in 2007”
That right there is the problem. Once wolves have realized they can kill and eat humans, it’s almost inevitable that they will try it again if they see the opportunity. The pack should have been destroyed after the first attack.
The 30-year-old woman had entered the wolf enclosure at Kolmarden park, in the Ostergotland district, alone at about 11am when the deadly incident happened.It is understood that visitors to the zoo then witnessed the horrific attack.
Emergency services could not enter the enclosure while the woman was being mauled for fear of being attacked themselves.
Emergency services co-ordinator, Jan Tengeborg, told Aftonbladet newspaper: 'You can’t just go in to a pack of wolves. Police and ambulance staff couldn’t get close to the victim until later.'
Very sad. I’m sure that women loved those wolves.
A reminder not to project human emotions onto wild animals.
I always find it difficult to feel much sympathy for people who knowingly approach packs of wild animals, especially when the pack had already given notice of its propensity to attack humans. Never the less it was a fellow human so R.I.P.
Too bad she didn’t read this book first. Excellent read, I highly recommend it.
“The Book of Deadly Animals”
“You can’t just walk right into a wolf pack.”
Watch me. You might want ear plugs or muffs. God gave me an opposable thumb for a reason.
/johnny”
Singin’ “Just me and my Saiga ...”, I’d bet.
Eastern coyotes are wolf/coyote hybrids. They form packs and recently they’ve been looking and acting more like wolves. Out west the coyotes are small almost fox-like. They seem to be loners. If the ones you’re seeing are truly wild they aren’t going to have any dog in them.
Wolf/dog hybrids don’t survive in the wild.
” Police and ambulance staff couldn’t get close to the victim until later.’”
I take it Swedish Police have weapons? Couldn’t they have emptied thier weapons into the wolves? Are they too f*king scared? What a joke.
My brother is the one with the Saiga. I have a left hand bolt Savage 22-250 that daddy got stupid with on the trigger. Works though. ;) Just have a LIGHT touch.
If I have pants on, I've got a 1911 style with me, too.
/johnny
Given the recognizable danger; am wondering why this woman, feeding the wolves - alone.
Given the recognizable danger; am wondering why this woman, feeding the wolves - alone.
Given the recognizable danger; am wondering why this woman, feeding the wolves - alone.
Hey. It’s a protected species, man!
Said the Swede at the zoo where people were regularly allowed to enter the wolf cage and pet the wolves, “’We do not know why they attacked.’”
Bravo Sierra! !
How can any competent person not know wolves kill because they are wolves. As for when, when they want to kill.
The victim is not important - the wolf pack will not be killed.
Swedish priorities are clear.
Is Freeper WesternCivilization on this thread? If so, what are your views regarding this ‘fast food’ situation?
“We have to stop interacting so closely with wolves. It is wrong, the risk is too great. We must recognise they are dangerous animals.”
***Duh*** of The Day/Week.
There was nothing personal in this attack. Wolves see it as normal as we do putting on a pair of pants.
Wolf and coyote fur make excellent collars for parkas.
I was thinking how brilliant Swedes are in picking Nobel Prize winners ... ceding awards to politically correct aninmals.
Do you have to ask? She’s a liberal.
But we are so close to them.
/Timothy Treadwell
Where’s Palin in a helicopter with a rifle when you need her?
From Wikipedia:
Eastern Coyotes
The eastern coyote is a coywolf, a canid hybrid, which, despite having a majority of coyote (Canis latrans) ancestry, also descends from wolves, either the Gray wolf (Canis lupus) or the Red wolf (Canis rufus), which is on balance more coyote than wolf. They come from a constantly evolving gene pool and are viewed by some scientists as an emerging species.[2] The genetic composition of these animals is debated amongst scientists.[3] [4]
A study showed that of 100 coyotes collected in Maine, 22 had half or more wolf ancestry, and one was 89 percent wolf. A theory has been proposed that the large eastern coyotes in Canada are actually hybrids of the smaller western coyotes and wolves that met and mated decades ago as the coyotes moved toward New England from their earlier western ranges. [5]
Sweden has a list. If you’re human, you’re on the list, but...
Anything above you is a protected species.
Anything below you is a protected species.
Or; why ask why; as you imply.
We have an acquaintance who projects the personality of kittens on wild wolves. She's involved in several programs to reintroduce them and fund their rehabilitation back into the wild.
I've said as gently as possible that it's all insanity, but she simply won't acknowledge that these are dangerous killers.
I would definetly suggest that you wear pants then if you are going to do that wolf thing.
Wolves are more important than people in Sweden, it seems. Just shooting one would probably have made the pack back off.
Sometimes it takes a hard, painful slap across the face to get some people wake up and see the world for what it really is.
A senseless, needless death.
Terrible.
Thank God for guns, huh, johnny?!?!
I live in Massachusetts, I have seen a coyote in broad daylight in my daughters neighborhood which is surrounded by woods. I have also seen a coyote on a farm not farm from my street. My daughter said that one night she heard coyotes killing a deer—they could hear the death cries of the deer. Could this have been a coyote/wolf mix since a poster says that pure coyotes cannot take down a deer?
They probably would have gotten in trouble for it. I think political correctness and multi-culturalism in Sweden probably extends to animal species.
/johnny
Genetically, biologists hold them to be just big ole dawgs now. (To the point of giving what used to be Canis familiaris the wolf species name of lupus.)
Leftists love predators whether it is wolves, Muzzies, members of NAMBLA, murderers, dictators, et al. Kill the predators? Absolutely not!
To the Leftists they are more important than the prey and don’t care how many prey are fed to them. The more the better actually!
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