Comments on: Yellowstone Visitor “Lucky to Be Alive” After Approaching A Pack of Wolves While Bystanders Watched In Horror https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/yellowstone-visitor-lucky-to-be-alive-after-approaching-a-pack-of-wolves-while-bystanders-watched-in-horror/ Celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Arlene Steinberg https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/yellowstone-visitor-lucky-to-be-alive-after-approaching-a-pack-of-wolves-while-bystanders-watched-in-horror/#comment-74154 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:12:20 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2189236#comment-74154 In reply to Makuye.

I love your comments. I don’t think most of the people here have the slightest comprehension of most of what you write – but I respect your observations and wisdom a great deal.

One thing is very clear – humans think they are superior to animals, but they are just the opposite. They are the dumbest species of all, and we are only numerous because we are lucky, NOT because we are smart. And luck runs out.

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By: Muriel https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/yellowstone-visitor-lucky-to-be-alive-after-approaching-a-pack-of-wolves-while-bystanders-watched-in-horror/#comment-74152 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:42:30 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2189236#comment-74152 Interesting to see how the wolves behaved. Saw yesterday an old picture of an Indian in front of his teepee. Next to him was a wolf – quiet, not aggressive at all.
We may wonder how Indians managed to do that.

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By: Makuye https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/yellowstone-visitor-lucky-to-be-alive-after-approaching-a-pack-of-wolves-while-bystanders-watched-in-horror/#comment-74148 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:10:38 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2189236#comment-74148 A very strange hunchnecked walk by the human. It WAS interesting to see the eager initial approach by two wolves.
You may not understand how play in the species is always a manifestation of curiosity, and how play turns into eager takedown of prey.
While bearspray is effective, both blinding and feeling respiratory and ocular burning, i don’t recommend dependence upon either that or firearms.The latter are not “defensive” in any case, but offensive weapons, which, when brought anywhere in the last 750 years or so, induce a farcical arrogance in the holder, and turn confrontations lethal — this includes changing of internecine warring from demonstration into enmities that last thousands of years.
Admittedly, i spent a number of days, nights, seasons in YNP, observing the larger wildlife, often far from roads and others ( humans talk too much, and are largely unaware of their own extreme scents – including of course, all your disguise scents and respiration, through which one can detect what you smoke, drank, and otherwise signal about yourself to everyone and everything.), noting that in any accessible season, those who grew up without experience OFTEN ignore the obvious signals and responses of other animals.

That included a couple timed when tour guides failed to corral their clients. Bison signal very clearly their anxieties, and have tossed some aspiring rag doll humans, when the arrogant approaches aren’t curbed.

Yellowstone wolves exist in a very dense(for wolves) population. Thus they are more assertive, and due to that curiosity i noted, might well switch over to taking down urban boys. And that guy was exactly an urban young adult, from his postural signaling.
He likely felt himself prepared to enter the wolf group due to having fresh bear spray purchase. It dissipates quickly when sprayed too high, as did he.

A bit more on inherent danger:
Human offspring are much like all other subadults, and in the western Ghat region, for example, the failure to protect the smaller young have led to some having been taken.
These wolves are significantly larger than India, and their lovely thick winter coats, remind me of the beautiful Northern Wolves i knew.

The video would have become quite interesting for those unfamiliar with the social consensus to test and eat that we saw only the familiar beginning of.
Wolves remain attentive to the choices of their siblings and family, and their final decisions are in great part dependent upon their familiars.

As December passes, more hormonal changes occur. Wolves eat well when other species become a bit weakened in another month into March.

Human social patter is inconsequential. Notice your “quasi-moral” opinions of one another, through which you largely outgroup. This is one of yourprimary traits to an observer.

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By: Juliet Smith https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/yellowstone-visitor-lucky-to-be-alive-after-approaching-a-pack-of-wolves-while-bystanders-watched-in-horror/#comment-74146 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:15:11 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2189236#comment-74146 Yet another stupid idiot who thinks that it’s ok to get really close to wild animals.

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By: Lin https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/yellowstone-visitor-lucky-to-be-alive-after-approaching-a-pack-of-wolves-while-bystanders-watched-in-horror/#comment-74145 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:32:26 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2189236#comment-74145 Idiot ! A lucky idiot !

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