Bad Reputation Of The Wolf

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The wolf is an amazing and mysterious creature. People don’t often see wolves very often in the wild and for a few reasons. Wolves are more afraid of humans than humans are of them. Man has hunted and killed wolves for their fur. The last reason is that there aren’t very many of them left in the wild. Wolves have received quite a bad reputation. In historical times wolves have eaten farmers live stock because wolves need to survive just like the farmers needed to. That is how stories like The Three Little Pigs came about, and Little Red Riding Hood as well. In reality wolves aren’t these big scary monsters as books and media have portrayed them to be. As a matter of fact, they are the ancestors of dogs. In the book The Wonder of Wolves written

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