Originally posted by l_e_cox
reply to post by blackrain17
No. Wolves don't normally attack people. They try to stay away from them. That's undoubtedly what this boy was trying to do. Of course his ability to
survive into adulthood is highly questionable. Historically, that doesn't often happen.
That's for sure, when the wolves realize the human is not a "cub" anymore, they start competing with him and one bite could cause a serious infection
for the human. Also humans are obviously not meant to live in the wild like wolves, so they would eventually die of some sort of disease, I guess.
I don't know how cold it is in Moscow, but I live almost in the arctic circle and I can tell you sub-zero temperatures will kill a human very fast.
These stories are almost too remarcable to believe. Why would a wold adopt a baby and take care of him, instead of eating him. I guess it must be a
female wolf in a period of time when she's having strong mother-instincts and probably just lost her own offspring.
And yes wolves are very shy to humans (for obvious reasons) and reported cases of wolves attacking a human are quite rare... They have been known in
the past for stealing children tho, but I thought that was for lunch??

edit on 6-7-2011 by Jonas86 because: (no reason given)