BBC News reports that there are about twenty wild wolves living in Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands. They have no fear of humans and one was recently recorded strolling next to a human family in the park. Park officials suspect that some people have been feeding them, which encourages them to seek out humans.
Since wolves are dangerous to humans, park officials would like to make them afraid of our species and avoid contact with us. So they plan to equip rangers with paintball guns to shoot at the wolves. The paintballs will teach the wolves that humans should be avoided, as well as mark which wolves have been shot.
-via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Retron
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I was thinking the same thing about uniformed vs. regular clothes. Also, paint to mark the wolves? Wouldn't the wolves still need the camouflage to blend in and survive?
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Right action, wrong reason. When apex predators change their feeding habits, i.e. trash cans instead of vermin. The ecological balance is ruined. This results in an over population of vermin and dangerous animals begging, nay insisting, on being fed. Might I add, the wolves will soon learn that people in uniforms shoot at them and couples strolling with a dog do not. Please arm a few plain-clothes paintballers.
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