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Wolves kill zookeeper in Sweden

Adam Khor

And there's still those who claim they don´t attack humans...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/9338319/Wolves-kill-Swedish-zoo-worker.html

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Adam Khor

Aquila wrote: »

Going a slight bit off topic but has there been recorded cases of lynx attacks on children?

Only captive lynxes. To my knowledge, no attacks of wild lynxes to humans have been recorded (although in countries such as Sweden there are unconfirmed stories about them). I'm talking here about Eurasian lynx- bobcat and Canadian lynx have attacked people, but the former almost always when rabid or in self defense, whereas the only case I know involving the Canadian lynx had the cat attack a man who was carrying dead animals and was probably starving.

On the other hand, the Asian fishing cat has been reported to snatch children, as well as dogs and goats, and is famous for its ferociousness. A famous fishing cat escaped from its cage in a zoo, wandered into a leopard's enclosure... and killed the bigger cat.

Mickeroo

Wyoming has now dropped wolves from the endangered list too: http://ens-newswire.com/2012/08/31/conservationists-howl-as-feds-drop-wyoming-wolves-from-endangered-list/

Very dissappointing, pretty much craps on the conservation efforts of the last 30 years. In my view if an animal is endangered and protected as a result it should be a case of learning from mistakes of the past rather than, once the population is recovered, deciding its ok to back to the activity that nearly wiped the species out in the first place.

I have no problem with them putting in measures to prevent the population going over a certain level but classing wolves as "game" is not the way to go. Wolves are an apex predator, they are not prey, they are not meant to be hunted. If they can justify this then i don't see why they don't start launching whaling ships anytime soon either.

It's also a great shame because america was one of the main pioneers of the conservation movement in the first place. At least they can't be hunted within Grand Teton/Yellowstone still.