Comment by jajko
14 days ago
What about dingoes? The best guess is they were domesticated and then went feral some 5-8k years ago. These days, in places like Fraser island in Australia, you have big fences for campers to not get eaten by packs of those and you need to drive everywhere, they would not hesitate for a second if given a chance.
The aborigines (till they themself were domisticated) had dingos as dogs and my interactions with them on Fraser Island were in a way like with wild dogs who wanted to get BBQ.
So definitely dangerous, but not in a Wolf way.
Wouldn’t wolves generally be significantly less dangerous because they are generally more skittish and avoid being near humans?
One of the main issues with feral/wild dogs (or wolf hybrids) is that they are much less afraid of humans and therefore are more likely to attack livestock, pets or even actual people when given the opportunity. Under normal circumstances actual wolf attacks are (and probably were historically) and feral/hybrid dogs are just attributed to them.
Hmmm.
There used to be a huge population of stray dogs in Balkan cities after 1990. (Contraception and culling reduced the numbers quite a bit since then.)
Most of the time, they just went out of people's way, individually or in loose packs. Attacks on humans did happen, but weren't a daily occurrence.
That said, a stray dog in a big city will always find food, so they weren't hungry.
In general yes. I meant when a wolf attacks, he will not toy around and show himself before the attack, like the dingos did.