Natural History Wanderings

Anthropocene Magazine reported

New research finds that wolves are afraid of the super predator in the woods (humans)—and that protecting them doesn’t make them less fearful of us.

While wolves’ reputation as fearsome predators makes them the stuff of old legends and modern polemics, at least one animal will prompt them to turn tail: humans.

That insight from new research runs counter to speculation that wolves protected by conservation laws might become emboldened and attack people unprovoked.

Read on www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/10/the-ecology-of-fear-in-the-anthropocene-has-a-new-plot-twist/