Wolf At the Door
I'm reminded of a program where five tales are told. Some of them are real and based on true events others are made up. The progam then askes the viewer to decide which is real. Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction. I highly enjoy the progam.
Truth is often stranger than fiction or so it would seem.
I was watching the national geographic channel with my wife last night. They were documenting the various wolves and wild dogs and canines around the world. Which has very few true loners, as almost off of these canines are highly sociable pack animals, This is particularly noticable with the care of young pups, and how all wolves take part in raising and teaching them.
The program breifly touched on a story I had heard in much more detail before. I was kinda sad that they did not get all the facts, but what can you do when you only have 45 minutes for a progam?
Sevral small villags in Inda were being terrorized. It started when a young child playing near the edge of a village vanished in a matter of seconds without a sign. The shredded body was found later. Fear gripped the people of these villages as the killer grew even bolder with every precation that was taken. To the point where children and babies were vanishing from thier beds at night. There was a total of 72 attacks. It was a long process to identify the killer. The rare paw print and bite marks ruled out the usual suspects of tigers or hyenas and pointed to the Indian Wolf. Dispite the bad press wolves have due to little girls in red capes and lying piglets This is not typical behavior for a wolf, and reports of wolves attacking humans are very rare. People could not believe that a wolf was doing this. Trackers and Hunters were brought in, and staked out sevral of the villages. Eventually two very large wolves were killed, and the killings stopped. An alpha male and female.
Now the story itself is very unique with just hearing this, but the program left out this detail. Why had these wolves done this? A week before the first killing. The people of the town that was the first attacked had found a den of pups, and killed them all.
With that one bit of information the motive is clear. These wolves lost thier children and took revenge on the surronding people by killing thier children. Victoria does not beleive that Vengance could be the reason for these killings. I must admit it does seem suitable for a tale of beyond belief fact or fiction.
If I did not know this was true, I would still believe that such sociable creatures are capable of emotion.
Truth is often stranger than fiction or so it would seem.
I was watching the national geographic channel with my wife last night. They were documenting the various wolves and wild dogs and canines around the world. Which has very few true loners, as almost off of these canines are highly sociable pack animals, This is particularly noticable with the care of young pups, and how all wolves take part in raising and teaching them.
The program breifly touched on a story I had heard in much more detail before. I was kinda sad that they did not get all the facts, but what can you do when you only have 45 minutes for a progam?
Sevral small villags in Inda were being terrorized. It started when a young child playing near the edge of a village vanished in a matter of seconds without a sign. The shredded body was found later. Fear gripped the people of these villages as the killer grew even bolder with every precation that was taken. To the point where children and babies were vanishing from thier beds at night. There was a total of 72 attacks. It was a long process to identify the killer. The rare paw print and bite marks ruled out the usual suspects of tigers or hyenas and pointed to the Indian Wolf. Dispite the bad press wolves have due to little girls in red capes and lying piglets This is not typical behavior for a wolf, and reports of wolves attacking humans are very rare. People could not believe that a wolf was doing this. Trackers and Hunters were brought in, and staked out sevral of the villages. Eventually two very large wolves were killed, and the killings stopped. An alpha male and female.
Now the story itself is very unique with just hearing this, but the program left out this detail. Why had these wolves done this? A week before the first killing. The people of the town that was the first attacked had found a den of pups, and killed them all.
With that one bit of information the motive is clear. These wolves lost thier children and took revenge on the surronding people by killing thier children. Victoria does not beleive that Vengance could be the reason for these killings. I must admit it does seem suitable for a tale of beyond belief fact or fiction.
If I did not know this was true, I would still believe that such sociable creatures are capable of emotion.