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.
“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.
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