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Wolves are famous and wild, dangerous and dark.
They are found everywhere in folk tales.
In children's stories the wolf blew down the little pigs'houses and swallowed Red Riding Hood's grandmother whole.
There is legend that the wolf is the devil in disguise and ( ア )some men become murderous werewolves when the moon is full.
Poor wolves.
They have done little to deserve their reputation.
In biological terms, they are little more than large dogs, such close relations that they can easily breed together.
All our domestic dogs are descened from wolves.
Sometime, more than 15,000 years ago, wolves were domesticated and, over centuries of breeding, turned into Man's Best Friends.
If there were no wolves, we would have no guide dogs or sheepdogs or retrievers, and no pet dogs.
Our own distant ancestors were hunters, and competed with wolves, which were much more numerous than today.
But people then probably felt they had little to fear.
Wolves are shy and unlikely to attack something as dangerous as a person.
Like many predators, they choose the easiest target ― old, sick or wounded animals.
The native peoples of North America called them brother and sister hunters, and respected them.
The change in human attitudes came when people became farmers, keeping animals in fields.
Wolves soon learned to make use of this.
They attacked farm animals, and gained a reputation as fearsome thieves, who must be hunted to death.
Wolves,(over /to /used /wander /which) most of Europe, have disappeared completely from much of the continent.
They are more numerous in North America, and believed to be around 8,000 in Alaska alone.
There, these fine animals can be seen in the wild, living as they should under the open sky, and in the vast northern forests.
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