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teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ha ha, “looks like he’s going to call HR for inappropriate contact”
For the record, there has never been a documented attack of a healthy wolf on a person in North America. Obviously if they get rabies or distemper or something all bets are off.
Another element that could be at play here:
He thought it was a dog.
Dogs, because we domesticated them, have muscles around their eyes, that allow them to make eye/eyebrow expressions.
Wolves do not have these. Because they’re the ones we did not domesticate for millenia.
So, if he was expecting dog expressions… wolves literally cannot make the same facial expressions.
Huh! You’re right, I did not know that.
Huskies are… much closer to being actual wolves though, genetically speaking.
Seems like this applies to malamutes and samoyeds as well…?
It’s thought the species we domesticated was distinct from wolves of today. That species went extinct in the wild.
There have been documented healthy wolf attacks in North America. en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_…
Some on the list are rabid, but the list also includes both captive and predative wolf attacks, including fatalities.
You are wrong. Candice Berner, Kenton Carnegie and Marc Leblond were all deemed to have been killed by healthy wolves.
There have been at least 24 non-fatal wolf attacks by healthy wolves since 2000 in north America alone: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_…
Teyrnon is wrong because they claimed that there are no documented attacks of a healthy wolf attacking a person in northern America. In fact, there have been three lethal and 24 non-lethal documented attacks by healthy wolfs since 2000 in north America.
Yes, “no xyz” is usually an overstatement. Your counterargument seems to suggest wolf attacks are common, however, which they are not.
One of the fatalities is this
Wyman was a wildlife biologist who worked as a caretaker in the Wolf Centre section of the Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve. She was killed by five captive wolves on the third day of her employment.
There’s a bunch of captivity based attacks that were not fatalities.
Most of the attacks were solitary joggers, hikers, dog walkers etc that would have been triggering a chase instinct. One of the incidents was ambush on two people:
Noah was awake and talking to his girlfriend when a lone wolf attacked from behind, biting his head. He kicked, screamed, punched, and grabbed, and it ran off. He was taken to the hospital, requiring 17 staples to close a large head wound and to get precautionary injections. Authorities killed the wolf the next day and sent the body for rabies and DNA testing. The wolf tested negative for rabies but was diagnosed with deformities and brain damage.
It’s not completely out of the question that a wolf was investigating a nice smell, and after getting the prize left. Definitely fits the pattern of the animals slowly acclimatizing to human activity. That wolf wasn’t dangerous then, but it would become dangerous.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
There’s also never been a documented case of a wolf contacting HR
Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There would be NDAs involved, so take that data with a grain of salt.
Kanda@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
That’s because HR will anonymise the contact data before publishing
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
depends on how many furries are in your company
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
that may be true but you should consider that HR departments are notorious for failing to document complaints from members of socially-disadvantaged groups