Aw man I really loved the new Frankenstein movie but I’m so bummed out that they went with the evil wolves trope to add conflict.
Wolves don’t try to get into houses - especially if people are there. Wolves tend to avoid active human settlements. They also would not be attacking sheep in a tiny corral all bunched together when there were clearly deer in the area.
I’m just so tired of wolves being characterised as these ravenous creatures that take absolutely insane risks that make absolutely no sense from an ethology perspective. They just seem to have zero self preservation and just attack, attack, attack.
Writers please take note: wolves are NEOPHOBIC - that means new things are scary to them and that includes humans, especially ones armed with guns.
Wolves AVOID people. They do not attack houses or push through doors.
This is why if you want to see wild wolves in places like Yellowstone the only way to observe packs is through very powerful binoculars and high powered lenses. Because if they smell, hear or see you coming they are gone.
And no one is shooting at them in a National Park, yet they still avoid humans at all costs.
There have been conflict with wolves with depredations on livestock - especially sheep - but those are rare and tend to be because of prey scarcity or indiscriminate shooting of wolves, leaving juveniles without adults to teach them how to hunt. So they target easy prey like sheep.
Anyway, begging writers to stop demonising wolves for the sake of adding conflict. You can very well just add bandits - humans are much scarier than animals that will irl run away at the first sight of people.
