Hi Dharkwolf, I must put into detail one of your good remarks and make a slihgt adjustment to the other.
First - the attack of wolf on man - maybe not all would understand why a wolf would not attack a man as a prey. It is very simple. It is widely known thet wolves prey on diverse group of species. What is mostly not appreciated (and what is stated in the book cited by you), is that only whole species is this general, in fact single subpopulations only prey on one or two bigger species, which they specialize on. For example it can be moose and/or deer in US, it is wild boar predominantly in central europe, with red deer in second and roe deer which is plenty is almost not preyed on by wolf. To prey on species requires knowlidge of that species, therefore wolves would change their favourite prey only in need. Therefore wolf sees man as not its prey and indeed a very dangerous oponent and try to avoid him. Even this winter there was a man in Slovakia who got lost in mountains in winter, met a pack of wolves and though he was afraid and very week the wolves did not attack him, to his utmost surprise.
Second - the percentage of animals suitable for breeding in Slovakia and Czech Republic is biased by the fact, that not all animals which are born are tested. Only animals which pass the bonitation, 40 km run (in Slovakia) and 2 dog shows may be used in breeding. Most of animals which are tried pass the tests, but some of them are never used for breeding, and a large grup of animals is never shown or tested not because they would not pass, but because their owners are not interested. So probability of your dog passing the test is higher that would seem from the numbers of whole population / dogs approved for breeding.
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