Chapter 210 (1/2)

”As for the competitive attack, it is not caused by hunger or fear, but the wolf wants to drive the competitor away from the territory or food. In this case, it is generally a tentative attack. Even if it attacks and kills people, it will not eat people.

Predatory attack is a situation in which wolves attack people when they are hungry, but there are many factors in the occurrence of this attack. As several friends said before, there was a wolf disaster in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Let's think about it. What would that be? ”

The tourists pondered and showed a clear look: ”in the 1940s and 1950s, it should still be fighting?”

”When there was a natural disaster in the 1960s, many people would starve to death.”

Fang Ye nodded and said, ”yes, generally speaking, people are not in the wolf's diet. Wolves usually eat deer and rabbits. When young wolves hunt and learn from their parents, they realize that this is their own prey, so they inherit this knowledge from generation to generation.

But in the era of war and famine, too many people died, and many bodies were exposed in the wilderness. After getting used to eating people's bodies, wolves may include people in their diet and gradually begin to attack humans, from occasionally eating people to often eating people, and even pass on the habit of eating people to the next generation.

This habit will not appear out of thin air. It is a special situation in a special era. With the disappearance of famine and war, the behavior of wolves eating people will decrease and disappear. If you look at the wolf disaster in history, it is often accompanied by war and famine. Natural and man-made disasters come together, so you don't have to worry about meeting man-eating wolves today.

Of course, the predatory attacks of wolves are not only related to the turbulent times, but also related to human large-scale grazing, land reclamation and tree cutting, resulting in the destruction of their habitat and the reduction of food.

For example, during the large-scale steel-making, the steel-making needs fuel. The fuel is to cut down trees to burn. Many century old trees have been cut down, and the miscellaneous trees on the mountain have been swept away. As many as you want to cut, all the hillsides have been cut bare.

The original habitat of wolves has become fragmented and reduced, the density of wild prey has decreased, and the number of prey is not enough to maintain the number of large wolves, so it is impossible to hunt large prey, or surround small prey, and the hunting success rate has decreased.

They can only walk around and become lone wolves or small wolves, and their behavior will change. They will hunt better livestock, or be attracted by human domestic garbage to find garbage to eat, resulting in human animal conflict.

The wolf attack on livestock does not mean that the ecology is getting better and the wolf is back, but that unreasonable grazing leads to poor vegetation quality and wolf food shortage. ”

The tourists sighed: ”I see!”

”It feels like talent is the most terrible animal on the planet.”

”Headmaster, how should we face the wolf about the wolf attacking livestock and the human wolf conflict?”

Fang ye thought: ”in fact, the state has a subsidy policy for this kind of wild animals attacking livestock.

The specific methods include standardizing the way of grazing, establishing the monitoring of individual wolves, making public the information of monitored animals, reminding herdsmen to pay attention to prevention, taking protective measures, carrying out education and publicity in all aspects, letting herdsmen know how to deal with the damage suffered by herdsmen, making certain economic compensation, sending veterinarians to help vaccinate livestock, Reduce the death of livestock caused by disease. These methods can eliminate the herdsmen's resentment against wild animals.

However, there are difficulties in implementing it. For example, a veterinarian in the snow area I know publicized the benefits of vaccination for livestock. Many herdsmen are very unhappy. They don't understand this. They think it's harmful to livestock, or it doesn't matter. They don't give vaccination.

However, after several serious cattle and sheep outbreaks, they put some pressure on the herdsmen in the name of the government. After a comprehensive injection, the effect is very good in the second year. Since then, the herdsmen know the benefits of vaccination and will take the initiative to fight. Otherwise, even if the cattle and sheep die of illness, the herdsmen's resentment will still be attributed to the wild animals.

Then there is the loss caused by wild animals. How can we judge which animals killed them instead of dying? You may have to put an infrared camera, right? Keep the image data, so it is convenient to report the loss, otherwise there may be false loss compensation. If the herdsmen are too troublesome to be at ease, or do not know how to do it, they have to ask the staff for help. This still requires long-term efforts.

There is also compensation for damage to livestock. Some precious protected animals, such as snow leopard, can get compensation more easily if they bite livestock. Wolves are only recognized as ”three haves” in some provinces, so it may not be easy to get compensation. ”