2021
DOI: 10.1007/s10344-020-01455-1
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Social and environmental factors influencing contemporary cases of wolf aggression towards people in Poland

Abstract: Understanding factors and mechanisms causing large carnivore aggression towards people is crucial for their conservation in modern human-dominated landscapes. We present detailed descriptions of wolf attacks on people in early summer 2018 in two areas of Poland, analysis of behaviour, fitness and origin of individuals responsible for the attacks and management actions undertaken by local communities as well as governmental bodies and non-governmental organisations. We show that attacks were caused by yearling … Show more

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“…Since human-habituated wolves, often as the result of food-conditioning, shift their home range close to human settlements and anthropized area in an opportunistic way, adopting circadian rhythms that are noncomplementary but similar or concomitant to the humans’ ones [ 45 , 46 ], Carlina did not show signals of human habituation after 11 days of veterinary isolation, treatment and non-agonistic experience with humans.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since human-habituated wolves, often as the result of food-conditioning, shift their home range close to human settlements and anthropized area in an opportunistic way, adopting circadian rhythms that are noncomplementary but similar or concomitant to the humans’ ones [ 45 , 46 ], Carlina did not show signals of human habituation after 11 days of veterinary isolation, treatment and non-agonistic experience with humans.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…national rabies reports, camera trapping and field observations [Penteriani et al 2016;Nowak et al 2021]. Healthy wolves may also attack and kill humans.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such conditions are mostly found in the Middle East and Asia, including India (Jhala and Sharma 1997;Rajpurohit 1999), Iran (Behdarvand et al 2014;Behdarvand and Kaboli 2015) and Israel (Linnell et al 2021). Predatory attacks on humans by healthy wolves have been also reported in Europe and North America in the 20 th and 21 st century (Linnell et al 2002;Mc Nay 2002;McNay and Mooney 2005;McNay 2007;Butler et al 2011;Penteriani et al 2017;Linnell et al 2021;Nowak et al 2021). However, in the last 40 years, since scientific studies on wolves have been carried out, only two people have been killed by wolves in North America, while in western Europe (excluding Russia and some neighbouring countries where rabies is still prevalent), no wolf predatory attack on humans has been verified (Linnell et al 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 94%
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“…Some people living in areas recolonized by wolves report that a concern for their own or their family's safety results in diminished quality of life (Røskaft et al, 2007). In modern times, non-rabid wolf attacks on humans are very rare, and documented cases are usually linked to habituation to anthropogenic food sources (Linnell and Alleau, 2016;Reinhardt et al, 2020;Linnell et al, 2021;Nowak et al, 2021). In developed countries, recent focus has been on wolves developing fearless behavior, and on human behaviors that may enhance the risk of attacks (Linnell and Alleau, 2016;Penteriani et al, 2016;LCIE, 2019;Reinhardt et al, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%