Woman killed by pack of wolves in Swedish zoo
Published: 17 Jun 12 15:04 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/41496/20120617/
A female employee of the Kolmården zoo in central Sweden was mauled to death in the wolf enclosure on Sunday morning.
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The incident occurred just after 11am on Sunday morning. According to eye-witness reports, the woman went into the enclosure, was surrounded and then attacked, wrote the Aftonbladet newspaper.
Emergency services were alerted at 11.11am, and were initially unable to approach the woman.
“You can’t just go in to a pack of wolves. Police and ambulance staff couldn’t get close to the victim until later,” said Norrköping’s emergency services coordinator Jan Tengeborg to the newspaper.
According to Aftonbladet, emergency services are currently attempting to sedate the other wolves nearby.
“It’s very unusual for something like this to happen, but it has happened before," Olof Liberg, wolf expert at Sweden’s University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU) said to TT.
“Zoo animals aren’t afraid of humans and accidents can happen,” he continued.
Liberg has yet to familiarize himself with this specific case, but said that accidents like this one often occur because of a breach in routine, and notes that wolves are especially dangerous when a zookeeper goes in alone.
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I feel sorry for the wolves that will be "put dowm" ( polite feel good term for those humans who can't stand to say KILL, MURDER, EXECUTE, ECT. but be sure the humans WILL exact their revenge...........don't we always ???
They are pack animals and excellent hunters, you only have to own two domestic dogs to know they behave differently to when you own one dog, they gang up together
I really hope these wolves are not killed, they were only doing what come naturally, its not their fault what happened.
Wolves are NOT dogs.
If they want to hunt you they will hunt you, at that point you're screwed already...
Touching bare electric wires is not OK.
Trusting a pack of wolves is OK!
Sadly, however, wolves have kiled more people in N. America both in the wild and from within protected bio reserves due to politically correct nature cowards who value animals higher than humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attacks_on_humans
We neither JOG alone in wolf inhabited areas nor do we enter the enclosures of
savage beasts WITHOUT first securing each animal and protecting the defenseless human beging.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE LOSS