Revenge tendency among wolves behind spate of attacks in UP’s Bahraich: Expert

Talking about the four wolves who have so far been captured by the forest department, Singh said it was highly unlikely that all the man-eater wolves had been caught or else the attacks would have stopped.”There is little hope that all the four wolves that have been caught so far are man-eaters. It is possible that one man-eater has been caught but the others have escaped. Perhaps that is why three or four attacks have taken place in the recent past,” he said.Bahraich’s Divisional Forest Officer Ajit Pratap Singh said even lions and leopards do not have the tendency to take revenge, but wolves do.”If there is any disturbance to the habitat of wolves or an attempt is made to catch or kill them or their cubs, then they take revenge by hunting humans,” he said.Meanwhile, Devipatan’s Divisional Commissioner Shashi Bhushan Lal Sushil said if the man-eating wolves are not caught and their attacks continue, as a last resort, orders will be issued to shoot them.The Devipatan division includes the districts of Gonda, Balrampur, Bahraich, and Shravasti.



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