Since the establishment of its own civilization, human beings seem to have drawn a clear line with other animals and broken away from the "law of the jungle".
So since human beings have withdrawn from the jungle for so many years, will the "force value" also become weaker?
If you follow the script of Wu Song fighting tigers, then the combat effectiveness of human beings is still good. However, in reality, it is almost impossible for a person to kill a tiger with his bare hands, even if he drinks more wine.
We know the outcome of the man-tiger war, but what about the war between the man and the wolf? If a person encounters a wolf in the wild, what are the chances of him defeating the wolf with the help of tools such as branches and stones?
Of course, we are talking about lone wolves here, and if we encounter a group of wolves, there is no point in discussing.
First, we need to be clear about which kinds of wolves we are encountering.
Wolves are one of the largest species of canines available. Typically, wolves are 105–160 cm long, 80–85 cm high on the shoulders, and about 29–50 cm long on the tail.
On average, North American wolves are 75 kg, Eurasian wolves are 50 kg, Indian and Arab wolves are 25 kg, and North African wolves are only 13 kg.
The largest surviving wolves are the British Columbia Wolf and the Canadian Timber Wolf, which belong to the North American gray wolf, and the adult male wolf can reach 1.8 to 2 meters in length, weigh up to 90 kg, and reach 90 cm on the shoulders.
Of course, it is not very rational to choose this wolf as an opponent, and one of their heads may be on top of half of your body. Therefore, it should be a medium-sized and more common wolf like the Eurasian wolf.
If you pick a wolf, you must consider under what circumstances you can let people fight with a lone wolf.
Wolves generally live far away from humans and generally do not actively attack people. So, when will a wolf take the initiative to attack a person?
Europe has preserved a large historical record. In France, a historian compiled records from 1362 to 1918.
He found nearly 7,600 people killed by wolves, 4,600 of them by wolves who did not have rabies.
After the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century, wolves also killed many people in Germany, but most of them were rabies wolves.
Historians study church and government records in northern Italy and find 440 wolf attacks on people from the 15th to the 19th century. From 1801 to 1825, there were 112 attacks, of which 77 were fatal, while only 5 were caused by wolves with rabies.
After World War II, wolf attacks on people were not recorded in Italy, and rabies was eradicated in the 1960s.
But in Latvia, at least 72 people were bitten by wolves from 1992-2000.
In Lithuania, rabies-stricken wolves attacked people to this day. From 1989-2001, a total of 22 people were bitten.
In Estonia, about 82 people were bitten by sick wolves during the 18th and 19th centuries, and 136 were killed by healthy wolves.
After these tragic attacks, the researchers divided the causes of wolves attacking people into four categories: rabies, defensive attacks, predatory attacks, and competitive attacks.
Wolves infected with rabies are the most terrifying, because being infected with rabies can make wolves emotionally grumpy. It will stay away from its own home and attack other animals it encounters on the way. And this kind of wolf usually does not eat the victim, but catches who bites whom, bites and runs.
However, wolves are not the main hosts of rabies, so the probability of this situation is unlikely.
Defensive attacks, on the other hand, are when the wolf feels threatened, or when it feels fear. It attacks humans because it is desperate to drive away the humans around it.
In this case, it is generally a bite to run, and will not attack arbitrarily.
Predatory attacks, on the other hand, are more straightforward because they are hungry. But in this case, the more cautious wolf will first observe the prey and then analyze the possibility that it will be able to succeed.
This attack generally does not stare at you, and if it sees a more suitable prey in the middle, it will abandon you and attack the next prey instead.
And wolves generally don't target people. Because in the impression of wolves, in history, in their struggles with people, they often suffer losses.
So, if there is a better option, wolves generally don't attack people first.
The last case is a competitive attack, which is generally due to someone entering its territory. The wolf wants to drive those who have entered his territory away from the edge of the territory or food. (The above main content comes from (1) wolf attacks on humans; (2) how to survive a wolf attack.) ）
Judging from these four situations, if you are unfortunate enough to encounter a wolf that is clearly aggressive towards you. Most of the time it's either hungry and there's no suitable prey around it, or you accidentally enter its territory and make it feel threatened.
If this does happen, please be sure to calm down first. If you turn around and run away, the wolf will catch up with you and attack you.
Then, since you can't run, all you have to do is to pick up the weapons that you can use around you and fight the wolf to the death.
What will be the outcome of this man-wolf war?
The wolf is likely to be defeated.
I don't think it's incredible. Although wolves are innate hunters, their individual strength is inferior to that of lions and tigers due to their social life.
Plus if its size doesn't give you an overwhelming advantage, it's not so easy to overwhelm you.
Not to mention that the excellent brain of human beings allows us to clearly know what "tricks" the wolf in front of us has. But for the wolf, it probably only knows that "this is an animal standing on two legs.".
The ancients said, "Know thyself and know the other, and never lose a battle." For example, we know that wolves like to sneak up on them from behind, so we keep an eye on them. Leave it without a back.
And if it attacks you head-on, then you attack it with a stick or a stone in your hand. After all, the wolf is also flesh and blood, if you hit it hard, it will hit it on the head, hit it on the leg will make it inconvenient to move, even if it hits its body, it will make it feel uncomfortable and reduce its combat effectiveness.
However, in the process of fighting, you must always pay attention to protecting your neck, and other injuries are inevitable.
Of course, our counterattack was not to kill a wolf, but to protect ourselves. Plus the wolf itself is a suspicious, cautious creature.
So once it perceives that it can't defeat you, it will escape, and this characteristic of the wolf is also one of the keys that supports us to dare to say that we can defeat the wolf.
Therefore, if a person encounters a wolf in the wild, the chances of being able to defeat the wolf with the help of tools such as branches and stones are still very high.
Of course, this is the premise of our use of tools. But the strength of humans is to know exactly how to use tools. Other animals evolved toward a more robust physique, while humans evolved toward higher intelligence.
Higher intelligence makes us familiar with the use of tools, and it is unfair not to let us use tools. Of course, the existence of "unarmed warriors" is not excluded, and there has never been a shortage of outliers in human history.
But in any case, when facing wolves, the most important thing is to overcome fear.