some humans, annoyed at the threat of being eaten by wolves, decide to kill them, to exterminate one or more wolf packs in the area. when throughout history and prehistory have these 2nd and 3rd best (land) predators on the planet (1st is ants) (the commonality among all three is hunting in coordinated packs) gone head to head? nowadays, with one side able to use nuclear weapons and habitat destruction, the fight is too one-sided. what is least amount of technology with which the humans have been victors? what techniques did they employ?
(tangentially, it is easy to imagine Predator from the movies defeating a bear but struggling against a pack of wolves. against (enough) ants, not a chance.)
inspired by Robinson Crusoe battling wolves in France. though in that story, the wolves technically were not hunting the men, only their horses, if the Monday-morning wolf expert in the story is to be believed.
but hunting even the strongest predator is likely much easier than hunting the most elusive prey. they know how to not to be killed, which is different from knowing how to kill.
previously, men versus dragons.
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