[102][103], Historically, poisoning was very successful in reducing wolf populations, particularly in the American West and Imperial Japan.
If the player attacks a wolf, but then moves a large distance away (e.g. [89] Some Japanese mountain people ate wolf meat to give them courage. A wild baby wolf's head grows significantly when attacked. A pack of 2-5 wolves will often kill 2 caribou every three days. Payments to white settlers included cash, tobacco, wine and corn, while Native Americans were given blankets and trinkets. Serfs began hunting wolves after their emancipation in 1861, though rarely with success, as civilian firearms were highly expensive, and the cheaper ones were usually primitive and unable to bear the heavy ammunition necessary to kill wolves.
While sitting, they do not follow the player. It continues in some areas of rural France, where it is also thought that wearing a wolf tooth offers protection from wolf attacks. Modern wolf hunting has become a controversial issue in some countries. [97], The use of heated box blinds is a popular method of wolf hunting in modern Alberta. A wolf's tail rises and lowers depending on its health. North American wolf pelts are among the most valuable, as they are silkier and fluffier than Eurasian peltries. Each May, the government commanded the populace to scour the countryside for wolf lairs in an effort to exterminate wolf pups. The bison were accustomed to having wolves walk among them and did not fear wolves unless they were vulnerable because of disease, injury, or if guarding young. In 1858, after paying the equivalent of $1,250,000 for over a million wolves in Central Russia, officials became suspicious, and discovered that some hunters bought wolf pelts for low prices, cut them up and handed them to magistrates as wolf tails. [47], With the exception of specimens in nature reserves, wolves in Belarus are largely unprotected. Wolves will usually only take ripe melons after giving test bites, which can render even unripe fruits worthless for future consumption.
When men from certain Eskimo tribes killed a wolf, they would walk around their houses four times, expressing regret and abstaining from sexual relations with their wives for four days.
[7] The Norman kings (reigning from 1066 to 1154) employed servants as wolf hunters and many held lands granted on condition they fulfilled this duty. Wolves temporarily increased during the First World War, though by the time it ended, the population was estimated to be between 150 and 200 animals. With an increase in population, twice as many wolves were culled in the 1980s than in the prior decade. "The flesh of the wolf may be taken certainly to be about the rankest carrion in creation, not even excepting that of the common vulture and the turkey-buzzard.