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Police parade with a gray wolf they killed in Zaozhuang, in northeast China's Shandong province on March 19, 2012.
Police in eastern China
Wolf attacks on humans are extremely rare. Msnbc.com reported in 2010 that there had been just two documented cases of wild wolves killing people in North America, which is home to an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 wolves.
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This Nov. 14, 2011 photo from a trail camera appears to show OR-7, the young male wolf that has wandered hundreds of miles across Oregon and Northern California looking for a mate and a new home. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says the photo likely shows OR-7, because a collar is visible on the neck, and GPS tracking data put him in the area where the camera was set on that date. Oregon's famous wandering wolf seems to be staying out of trouble after settling for now in the southern Cascades, but there are no signs he has found a mate yet.
AP reports: GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A young male gray wolf that wandered hundreds of miles across Oregon and eventually crossed into California as he searched for a mate has apparently been photographed for the first time.
The black-and-white photo shows a wolf sniffing the ground in a stand of dense forest. It is likely the animal known as OR-7, said Roblyn Schneider Brown, an Oregon state biologist.
A lone wolf, one of just 29 in Oregon who heard the call of the wild and left his pack for a solo trip south, is now the first wild gray wolf known to be at large in California since 1924. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
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The political tussle over U. S. spending has ensnared an unlikely victim, the gray wolf, whose long-time status as an endangered species has been axed due to an addition to the federal budget deal. Federal protection for the wolves ends on May 5. Wildlife experts say the wolves had disappeared from the Rocky Mountain region until they were reintroduced in the 1990s, and their protected status has allowed them to recover from near-extinction in the Rocky Mountain region, according to the Sierra Club.
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A wolf pack is pictured bedded down in the snow in Yellowstone National Park in this March 2007 photograph. Federal protections for some 1,200 gray wolves in Montana and Idaho officially end on May 5.
AP reports:
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Obama administration on Wednesday moved to lift Endangered Species Act protections for 5,500 gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, drawing the line on the predators' rapid expansion over the last two decades.
Public hunts for hundreds of wolves already are planned this fall in Idaho and Montana.
Conservationists have hailed the animal's recovery from near extinction last century as a landmark achievement — one that should be extended to the Pacific Northwest and New England.
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This May 3, 2009 file photo provided by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows wolf coordinator Russ Morgan with a wolf as it recovers from anesthesia used during a radio-collaring effort in Northeastern Oregon. The Oregon Cattlemen's Association is pressing a package of bills in the Oregon Legislature to allow ranchers to shoot wolves attacking livestock, and pay ranchers for sheep and cattle lost to wolves.
Seeing a wolf this close to a person helps to show how big wolves can be. There's some more information about the bills concerning wolves in the Oregon legislature on this page.
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