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wolf attack
(Note: Every rural dweller, recreationist, vacationer, farmer, miner,
logger,
rancher or rural homeowner, should read this through from start
to finish.
It is that important. This occurred over the Labor Day
holiday. "Wolves
work in packs
and not individually, and it was probably ostracized."
What about the "lone wolf" pabulum parroted by those using the
expired-but-annually-resuscitated "Endangered" Species Act to
loose a
slew of large predators upon rural areas? If for some reason you
cannot
view the two photos below, simply click on the website address
for each
jpg to view. Fred Desjarlais would disagree about wolves'
supposed
'shyness,' and so would Kenton Joel Carnegie -- if wolves had
not killed
and partially eaten him. Before the reader shrugs these
things off as being
'not in my back yard' -- NIMBY -- please consider
that this could have
happened to your friends, your family, or you,
while on vacation or living
in some rural clime. Please recall the
California and Colorado cougar attacks
that resulted in human
fatalities. No one thought Texas cougars would
magically be transformed
into "endangered Florida panthers," merely by
crossing a
couple of state lines while being shipped by government or private
"re"introducers. The red highlighting signifies use of Language
Deception.
The very fact that United States media is
concertedly pretending this attack
didn't happen, rather than splashing
it all over the print and television media,
appears to indicate an
unwillingness to admit that such attacks are, indeed,
becoming anything
but 'rare' and are soon to come 'south of the [Canadian]
border.' How
much media coverage will there be when -- not if -- there is a
human
victim in America? How long will it be before a Canadian gray wolf
pack 'naturally
disperses' to 'The Wayne,' also known as the Wayne
National Forest of southern Ohio -- or to the Great Smoky Mountains of
Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee, or the Appalachians, Ozarks,
Adirondacks, or the Wasatch and Green River country, and beyond?
How far
do you live from a national park or forest?)
September 7, 2006
No author provided at originating website address/URL.
The Canadian Press
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com
To submit a Letter to the Editor:
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada - A lone wolf that attacked six
people,
including several young children, in a provincial park over the
long weekend
has tested negative for rabies, the Algoma Health Unit said
yesterday.
The wolf, which has been blamed for several separate attacks
Monday
at the popular Katherine's Cove beach on Lake Superior was shot
by park staff.
The wolf had a broken clavicle and tooth when it was shot following
the
attacks, which may explain its
abnormal behaviour, said health unit
inspector Bob
Frattini.
"Wolves work in packs and not
individually, and it was probably
ostracized,"
Frattini said.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency plans to conduct further testing
on the wolf's body to try and find other possible causes for the
attacks,
which left several families injured and badly shaken.
The attack on the Wright family occurred on Bathtub Island, a large
rocky
area within wading distance of the mainland and about 100 metres
south of
Katherine's Cove.
Brenda Wright, on a day trip with her sister-in-law, two children and
their cousins, aged 10 and 13, said her family was probably attacked
first. Park officials say they aren't sure about the order of the
attacks.
Her son, Casey, 12, noticed a black, doglike animal running across
the beach.
She said the animal nipped the ankle of her 13-year-old nephew, Jake,
then clamped down on her son's buttock, carrying him about half a metre
before dropping him and lunging at her.
The wolf's teeth tore into her hands and her leg as she fought back
and the group raced into the shallow swimming area. Wright said the wolf
followed them, this time going after Emily Travaglini-Wright, 14.
"(Emily) was a real fighter. . . She got mostly claws in her
head and her arm," her mother said.
Emily Travaglini-Wright, 14, of Sault Ste. Marie, displays wounds she
suffered while fighting off a wolf that attacked her and four other
family members at Katherine's Cove beach in Lake Superior Provincial
Park. Photo credit: Margaret Cameron-Mcqueen, the Canadian Press. http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/images/hs/hs1469793_1.jpg
Leah Morgan from Marathon, Ontario, was attacked by a wolf at
Katherine's Cove, Lake Superior Provincial Park. She was with her
grandparents who rescued her from the wolf as it tried to drag her away.
Photo credit: Brenda Grundt, Wawa-News.Com. http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/images/hs/hs1469793_2.jpg
Alerted by the screams, two strangers raced over and managed
to scare off the wolf. As families hid in the trees, the wolf returned
minutes later and rifled through their picnic stashes.
For Jerry and Rachel Talbot, it started at around 4 p.m. The Wawa,
Ontario, couple, on their way to a wedding in Sudbury, with
granddaughters Leah, 3, and Madison, 5, pulled off Highway 17 for a
quick swim at a popular picnic area in Lake Superior Provincial Park.
According to park staff, more than a dozen others were enjoying the
end of the Labour Day weekend at Katherine's Cove when the Talbot family
wandered onto the beach and began to remove their shoes.
Jerry Talbot noticed a black animal chasing a girl across the sand.
Too slow for the girl, the animal veered off and grabbed a slower,
smaller target: Leah.
It clamped its jaws around the blond toddler's left upper arm and
began dragging her away from her grandmother and sister.
The girl was dragged about six metres before the wolf dropped her on
her back, startled by the shrieks of her grandparents and those who had
jumped in to help.
Leah started to run, but she was in sand and she was in shock.
The wolf grabbed the hood of the little girl's black jacket. This
time, Rachel Talbot's advances and screams caused the wolf to drop the
girl momentarily and she lunged forward, scooped up the child and raced
to her vehicle. Jerry Talbot and Madison were close behind.
The International Wolf Center is one of
the premier sources of information on wolves. What
follows are excerpts from wolf [FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions] found
at:
http://www.wolf.org/wolves/index.asp
* There are three species of wolves in the world: the gray wolf (Canis
lupus), the red wolf (Canis rufus) and the Ethiopian (or Abyssinian)
wolf, (Canis simensis). Some researchers believe the Ethiopian wolf is
not a wolf, but actually a jackal.
* The gray wolf, Canis lupus, lives in the northern latitudes around
the world.
* There are five subspecies of the gray wolf in North America and
seven to 12 in Eurasia.
* Wolves usually live in packs which consist of the adult parents,
referred to as the alpha pair, and their offspring of perhaps the last 2
or 3 years. * Pack size is highly variable because of birth of pups,
dispersal, and mortality. Generally, a gray wolf pack has from six to
eight wolves, but in Alaska and northwestern Canada some packs have over
30 members.
* Territory size is highly variable. Gray wolf territories in
Minnesota range from about 25 to 150 square miles, while territories in
Alaska and Canada can range from about 300 to 1,000 square miles.
* Wolves breed at slightly different times, depending on where they
live. For example, gray wolves in the Great Lakes Region breed in
February to March, while gray wolves in the Arctic may breed slightly
later in March to April.
* The gestation period of gray and red wolves is usually around 63
days.
* Adult female gray wolves in northern Minnesota weigh between 50 and
85 pounds, and adult males between 70 and 110 pounds. Gray wolves are
larger in the northwestern United States, Canada, and Alaska where adult
males weigh 85 to 115 pounds and occasionally reach 130 pounds.
* The average length (tip of nose to tip of tail) of an adult female
gray wolf is 4.5 to 6 feet; adult males average 5 to 6.5 feet. The
average height (at the shoulder) of a gray wolf is 26 to 32 inches.
* Adult gray and red wolves have 42 teeth, while adult humans have
32.
* The massive molars and powerful jaws of a wolf are used to crush
the bones of its prey. The biting capacity of a wolf is 1,500 pounds of
pressure per square inch. The strength of a wolf's jaws makes it
possible to bite through a moose femur in six to eight bites. In
comparison, a German shepherd has a biting pressure of 750 pounds per
square inch. A human has a much lower biting pressure of 300 pounds per
square inch.
* Gray wolves prey primarily on large, hoofed mammals such as
white-tailed deer, mule deer, moose, elk, caribou, bison, Dall sheep,
musk oxen, and mountain goat and smaller mammals, such as beaver and the
snowshoe hare.
Copyright 2006, The Hamilton Spectator.
Additional related
reading/information:
Ontario community of Wawa, has done what hundreds couldn't: extract
$100 from the Sault Star. Lou Maulucci, publisher of the Sault
Star, said yesterday he'll make good on an offer that ex-publisher
James Curran made 81 years ago and pay $100 to Leah Morgan.
"This is to inform the public that the Sault Daily Star
will pay $100 to the first person who can establish to the
satisfaction of
the editor that any timber or brush wolf has attacked any
person in Algoma," Mr. Curran had stated.
by the hood of her coat. Worse still were the 10 rabies shots
the Marathon, Ontario, girl had to endure Tuesday before the
wolf carcass tested negative. Not surprisingly, the little
girl also has developed a fear of dogs. “She will not go near a
dog
at this moment,” her mother said. “We're in the middle of
construction right now and we have to park the car two houses
down where they have a big dog that looks like a wolf. And she
won't even step outside the house if she knows we have
to go to the car. “We had to park further down.” Leah’s
sister, five-year-old Madison, who watched the attack, also is
coping. “She’s traumatized, as well, of dogs,”
her mother said. “They're both going through the same thing. She
wasn't
No
rabies in wolf that attacked campers Globe
and Mail Globe
and Mail 'The Canadian Food
Inspection Agency in Ottawa confirmed the negative result yesterday.
In three separate incidents on Monday afternoon, the wolf
attacked a
family of six, a three-year-old girl, and a woman. The victims had all
been at Lake Superior Provincial Park, north of Sault Ste. Marie. Six
people were left with cuts, scratches, and puncture wounds. The wolf
was shot dead by a park employee hours after the attacks. Officials
say wolf attacks on humans are rare ...'
Wolf
attacks beachgoers
News24, South Africa - 13
hours ago
Montreal - A black wolf sowed terror at a popular
Canadian beach, attacking six people -- including four children --
before it was shot dead, an official with the Canadian
province of Ontario said on Thursday. The victims at first believed
the animal was a large black dog when it appeared in broad daylight on
Monday and then attacked beachgoers along the shores of Lake Superior,
Melanie Dufresne, spokesperson for the ministry of natural resources,
told AFP. The victims were bitten in the arm, hands, ankles
and head and were hospitalised but have since been released,
she said. It took several terrifying minutes before the animal
was finally chased from the beach. The incident
occurred in a provincial park, only a few hundred metres from a main
cross-country highway, where the animal was shot several
hours later. The wolf, which weighed 33kg, did not have rabies
and appeared to be healthy, said Brent Patterson, a
wolf specialist at the ministry. The animal was most likely
two to three years old and "was not starving,"
Patterson said. Wolf attacks on humans are considered extremely rare,
he said. " There's never been any
proven fatality in the wild in North America."
Wolf that attacked 6 tests negative for
rabies Globe and Mail 'The
wolf had suffered a broken clavicle and tooth when
it
was shot following the attacks...' Emily
Wright, 14, was among the half-dozen people who were attacked by the
wolf
at the beach at Lake Superior Provincial Park. The little girl, who
received about 15 stitches to her arm and
more
to her face and ear, fought off the wolf after it ripped into brother
Casey's buttock and tore the hands and
leg
of her mother, Brenda. The following day, all six of those who were
injured were forced to endure numerous
needles --
a precaution against rabies.... Before it was shot, the wolf
attacked another couple at the north end of
the
beach. Then it clamped its jaws around three-year-old Leah
Talbot's left upper arm and began dragging her
away
from her grandmother and sister. Ministry of Natural
Resources officials say no one has ever
been killed by a
wolf
in North America, and instances
in Canada in which wolves have bitten people are rare indeed.
“Although there
are
high populations in Ontario, it's rare you do actually see a wolf,”
said ministry spokesperson Melanie Dufresne. Some
wolves
become
“habituated” to people through over-exposure, but it's a rare one
who won't run at the sight or sound of a
human,
she said. “They're so fearful of humans.” In
the event a wolf doesn't turn tail and run, Ms. Dufresne suggests
standing
one's ground and trying to scare it off. “Obviously, if it's not
scared, make yourself known to be human,
make
noise,” she said. “You don't want to run. Slowly back away and
take refuge in a car or cabin.” Wolves can't
climb
trees, she added.
face
and ear after fighting off the wolf after it injured her brother,
Casey, and mother, Brenda.'
Other very important
related reading:
Northern
miner 'heroic' (VERY IMPORTANT READ)
Woman
escapes after wolf pounces - Campground: Attacks on humans are unusual
but not unprecedented
Manhunters: A killing in Canada
puts an end to the myth that wolves won't harm humans (VERY IMPORTANT
READ)
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