• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I have a lot of outdoorsy hobbies, most people who are serious about camping and hiking and such are also pretty good about leaving no trace.

    But there’s also a lot of people out there who aren’t serious about it, they just think it would be fun to go out in the woods and have a party or whatever and they leave a lot of litter, start fires in inappropriate places, etc.

    And at least around me, that’s generally a pretty safe thing for them to do. Theres no really no large predators left for them to be concerned about.

    And I sometimes think “maybe if we just reintroduced wolves, that might be enough to dissuade some of these assholes from making a mess in the great outdoors”

    Those of us who spend a lot of time outside know there’s usually not too much to worry about as long as you’re taking some basic precautions, but almost every time I talk to a non-outdoorsy person, it seems like they’re always afraid of getting attacked by wolves or bears.

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      2 hours ago

      but almost every time I talk to a non-outdoorsy person, it seems like they’re always afraid of getting attacked by wolves or bears.

      it’s like talking to a US tourist as to why they never visit Australia; spiders, snakes, drop bears Crocs…

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      5 hours ago

      A friends husband refused to go on a trip to Canada because he was convinced they would be attacked by bears. They were going to Toronto

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      6 hours ago

      These are also the people that can’t figure out the bear proof trash cans at camp sites and provide hours of entertainment in their attempts to use them.

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        3 hours ago

        The overlap between a smart bear and a dumb human is actually pretty vast. Sometimes you gotta just accept that the dumb humans wont be able to figure it out in order to keep the smart bears out too.

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    5 hours ago

    Recently, I seem to have a problem that there are too many wolves around. I’ve lost three children this month alone.

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    11 hours ago

    Too much pollution? Release wolves in factories in boardrooms

    FTFY

  • livingkettle@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    These have to be the most adorable killer wolves. One is even winking at us! Idk if that is a good thing.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s so embarrassing when you think a wolf is winking at you but it’s really winking at the wolf behind you

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    6 hours ago

    This entire thread is just Werewolf the Apocalypse in a nutshell lmao.

    The concept of the game boils down to eco-terrorist werewolves getting mad and tearing the billionaires, factories, and the elementary school class that had a kid accidentally litter to shreds.

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Not boars, tho.
    Wolves prefer not to fuck with adult boars.
    Even when European lions were still around, they’d rather go for something else over a boar. Even bear cubs or baby mammoths, with all the risks involved.
    Without some metal animal like Komodo dragons, it falls to humans to keep them in check.

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        3 hours ago

        Good luck spotting and hitting boar from a helicopter without like extensive thermal vision and and some massive minigun and even then it’s gonna be hard.

        Sneaky fuckers running in the undergrowth.

        Remember they got Bobby as well