Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? We all are, it seems. Despite being hunted to extinction in the wilds of the UK, and becoming increasingly rare around the world, the wolf remains a fearful cultural spectre; the predatory outsider, the child-eating malevolent of fairy tales, the werewolf that reveals the uncontrollable dark side of the human psyche. From Aesop to Dante to Tolkien, the wolf has been cast as the villain of the piece, and it hasn’t helped its own press with all that signature…
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