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Humans are dangerous and feared. Even in parts of Europe where wolves are supposedly protected, they avoid the sound of people more than the sound of dogs.

And there's nothing special about wolves here. A researcher in this study said:

“These results track with basically the same experiment we did in Africa, where we tested the entire savannah mammal community. You know, a lion is the apex predator, and yet pretty much everything across the board was twice as afraid of us."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/even-with-protections-wolves-still-fear-humans/