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helped themselves to a sheep, which 
they generally dragged outside and ate 
there. Local shepherds also reported 
the loss of single animals that went 
astray in a thick mist or on the way 
home. Many of these were eaten on 
the spot, with only their skin and heavy 
bones left over. It was not uncommon 
for wolves to leave behind animals that 
had been only nibbled at, however, 
presumably because they had been 
disturbed. The remains were generally 
eaten by dogs the following day. 
Yet we also saw damage on a larger 
scale. It was not uncommon for as 
many as ten sheep to be killed, and 
on two occasions more than a hundred 
were dispatched. This always seemed 
to happen when panic broke out 
among the sheep and a large number 
ran about bleating wildly. To the 
wolves the activity was an irresistible 
signal to catch and kill, and like foxes 
in a chicken run, they killed every- 
thing they could. (A bear is said to 
have broken into a sheep shed in the 
national park, killed the more than 
one hundred sheep in it, and then gone 
to sleep out of sheer exhaustion, so 
that the next morning the shepherds 
found him asleep among the dead 
sheep.) 
Such excesses of killing arise in the 
unnatural situation in which a pred- 
ator is confronted with a large number 
of prey animals whose movements are 
restricted. In complete contrast to the 
killing of wild prey, nearly all of which 
is consumed, predators kill more do- 
mestic animals than they can use. Erki 
Pullainen reports similar findings from 
northern Finland. Of 149 sheep, 9 
cows, 15 calves, and 3 horses killed 
by predators, only 31 sheep, 3 cows, 
5 calves, and 1 horse were eaten. 
This behavior is what causes the 
shepherds’ very understandable ha- 
tred of predators, the wolf in particu- 
lar. Losing a single sheep, a single 
foal, or a single calf on occasion would 
perhaps not be so bad. But for a pred- 
ator to kill a hundred or more animals 
and then not even eat them is too 
much. Whenever a wolf has killed in 
this manner, the event has been widely 
reported in the newspapers, and hos- 
tility both to wolves and to the move- 
ment to protect them has become vo- 
ciferous. 
On the other hand, when a wolf 
meets a violent death, newspapers and 
television also report the event with 
horror, as happened when Luigi and 
I found 1/2, the first wolf we had 
tagged, dead in a stream in the na- 
