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The '''Wolves of Hazaribagh''' were a pack of five [[Man-eater|man-eating]] [[Indian Wolf|Indian wolves]] which between February and August 1981, killed 13 children aged from 4 to 10 years. Their hunting range was 2.7 square miles (7 square km) around the town of [[Hazaribagh]] in the eastern Indian district of [[Bihar]]. They were apparently attracted to the area by the town's [[rubbish dump]], where [[livestock]] carcasses and bodies from the local [[mortuary]] were often buried, and frequently attracted wolves, [[striped hyena]]s, [[golden jackal]]s and [[pariah dog]]s.<br />
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One of the first attacks occurred on 15 February 1981, when a wolf entered a yard bordered by [[wikt:brushwood|brushwood]] and attacked a young boy. The boy's cries attracted several people, who attacked the wolf with wooden poles, beating it to death. Throughout the next six months, the remaining wolves killed 13 children and mauled 13 others. On a night of June 1981, they were seen via a headlight to be exhuming and eating a human corpse. During the year, 4 wolves were killed, the last of which, thought to be the dominant male, was caught in a scrub forest and shot.<br />
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Another report Human-Wolf Conflict in human dominated landscapes of Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra states that in the Hazaribagh area, 80 children were attacked - 60 of them fatally - between April 1993 and April 1995 (Rajpurohit 1999). It was thought that five wolf packs were responsible for the attacks. Indeed, Hazaribagh appears to be particularly<br />
prone to wolf attacks on children; as attacks have been a regular occurrence over a large area in Hazaribagh from the 1930s onwards (and perhaps even before this), it seems likely that a number of<br />
packs have been in operation over the years (Linnell et al. 2002).<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of wolves]]<br />
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==References==<br />
*"Wolves and wild dogs", from ''Man-Eaters'', Michael Bright, Robson books, 2000<br />
* http://projectwaghoba.in/docs/roopa_krithivasan_indian_wolf_report_2009.pdf<br />
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