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.
I don’t have any coyotes down here. We have a lot of small varmint, snakes and we’re not far from a LOT of big gators.
They will, however, lick your eyelids to determine your death state.
Been there, done that.
/johnny
It depends how big you are. The bigger they are the bigger their prey will be but even smaller coyotes can kill (and have done so) small children.
*sheesh*
How stupid can people be?
Since I was reared in the West, I was taught to respect wildlife, but also not to be stupid about approaching any wild species.
Had it been me, I would have gone into the compound with a .357 sidearm, “just in case.”
So shoot me.
Since I was reared in the West, I was taught to respect wildlife, but also not to be stupid about approaching any wild species.
Had it been me, I would have gone into the compound with a .357 sidearm, “just in case.”
So shoot me.
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Me too, but I doubt that was an option in Sweden. I could be wrong..
Darwin Awards are hovering in the netherworld, waiting for the Muy Estupidos!
We have lots of the Coywolves here in NW Connecticut. Unattended dogs are often snatched away and eaten. My next door neighbors dog was a recent victim. They are very large. I walked up to one that had been hit by a car on a side road. It was quite impressive. You can hear the packs at night, which is kind of spooky. I would not walk alone in the woods without my trusty P40, escpecially at night when they are hunting. We have Mountain Lions and Black Bears as well.
You got Gators? Yum. I have recipes. Lotta meat.
/johnny
Sweden is too liberal to pay any attention to...*blech*
I might not try that, thanks.
/johnny
We have quite a few cowwolves here in Illinois. Many a farmer gets up in the morning to milk the family cow- and he’s never seen again. The wife or kids go out looking for him and all they find is an empty stool, an upturned bucket and a cowwolf with a smirk on its face.
Sweden is too liberal to allow sidearms. Which is why Muslims like the place...but you didn’t hear it from ME!
That’s why they’re called wild animals.
Thanks! Life is GOOD!
They hunt continuously (and very effectively) as packs. The sound they make doing so is like someone forgot and left open the Gates of Hell.
Books are okay, but they aren't infallible.
/johnny
/johnny
Granted, I'm a man that pees outside, sans accoutrement, and all of that... But if you open the door and yell at them to shut-the-hell-up!
They do.
For a minute.
And then you can sic the dogs on 'em.
Go figure.
/johnny
If it was cold, why were you nekkid?
Glad you survived that mountain lion.
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